Al-Basher Endowed With High Religious Authority Fatwa Not
To Attend Arab Summit
Sudanese News Updates
23 March 2009
Sudan's highest religious authority
has issued a fatwa or ruling that President Omar al-Beshir,
targeted by an international arrest warrant, should
not attend an Arab summit in Qatar.
The fatwa, issued by the Committee of Muslim Scholars,
said that despite Khartoum's insistence that Beshir
would go to the March 29-30 Doha summit, he should not
attend because "the enemies of the nation are creeping
around."
"It is inadmissible for the president of the republic
to take part in the Arab League summit in Qatar under
current conditions while the enemies of God and of the
nation are creeping around," local media quoted the
text as saying.
The International Criminal Court on March 4 issued
an arrest warrant against Beshir for alleged war
crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur and there
has been speculation about his possible arrest if he
leaves Sudan.
"Because you are the symbol and the guardian of the
nation... we think that the conditions are not right
(to attend the summit) and that this task can be
carried out by persons other than yourself," the fatwa
said.
The ICC does not have a police force and therefore
calls on signatory states to implement warrants.
Qatar has not ratified the Rome Statute which set up
the court, although as a member of the United Nations
it is urged to cooperate with the court.
Besides the possibility of his arrest in Qatar, some
officials in Sudan fear that Beshir's presidential jet
could be intercepted by other states once out of
Sudanese airspace.
The Arab League and the African Union have both
criticised the warrant as not helping to end the
six-year-old Darfur conflict and called for the United
Nations to exercise its right to defer it.
The United Nations says 300,000 people have died in
the conflict between ethnic minority rebels and the
Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, which puts the
figure at only 10,000. An estimated 2.7 million people
more have fled their homes.
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