On June 2, 2015, Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in for another five-year term as “President,” after another “election” with opposition boycott and a “low turnout.” He took the oath of national assembly in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman. Omar Al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on war crimes charges, seized power in a military coup in 1989. In 1997, the United States government issued a trade ban on Sudan for hosting the former Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the 1990s and for human rights abuses.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Bashir for war crimes and for crimes against humanity in 2009, and the ICC indicted Bashir for genocide in 2010. An ICC warrant for his arrest has been outstanding for over six years.
Under Omar Al-Bashir’s reign of terror, 300,000 have been killed in Darfur, countless women have been raped and abused in Darfur, and there are an estimated 3 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) have been displaced from their homes and villages in Darfur.
Sudan: Indicted War-Criminal Omar Al-Bashir Sworn in for Another 5-Year Term as President (Source: Ashraf Shazly – AFP )
Such Sudan elections are regularly plagued with irregularities. In 2015, the Sudan Tribune reported that “Sudan Tribune reporters spotted several polling stations were empty from voters in different electoral constituencies in the Sudanese capital” on April 16, 2015. The Tribune also reported that “Several heads of polling stations complained of weak voter turnout on the fourth day, also they pointed to the existence of errors related to the fall of voters names and the repetition of the names of electors in a number of electoral constituencies.” The Sudan National Electoral Commission noted errors in voting in 2010 as well.
In March 2010, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo stated that elections for Omar Al-Bashir, would be equivalent to “a Hitler election.”
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) joins with the free people of their world in their stand against this cruel dictator and indicted war criminal. We call for the leaders of the American government to reject Omar Al-Bashir’s actions and call for the end to his tyranny in Sudan.
