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Al-Bashir Discover White Still Rule In South Africa, Warned Of Arrest
2 august 2009
South Africa will arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir if he visits the country, despite an African Union decision to ignore a war crimes warrant against him, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. Foreign ministry director general Ayande Ntsaluba told reporters that South Africa does not agree with the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, but will respect its treaty obligations to arrest Bashir. "We have certain international obligations. Not only that, our parliament passed a law" enforcing those obligations, Ntsaluba said. "I cannot foresee the government acting outside the framework of the law," he added. "We would not renege on our international legal obligations." Bashir currently has no plans to visit South Africa, Ntsaluba said. Afterall this is South Africa where those who opposed government policies are still subjected to arrests and or murders as it was the case during the apartheid when some powerful politicians and activities elson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Desmund Tutu, Sam Nuyoma, and others alike were imprisoned, and many went into exile, took up arms and fought for freedom, freedom for the people of Namibia and South Africa. However, since the end of apartheid, the South African foreign policy has focused on its African partners particularly in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union. South Africa has played a key role as a mediator in African conflicts over the last decade, such as in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Comoros, and Zimbabwe. Between 2000 and March 2008 at least 67 people died in what was identified as xenophobic attacks. In May 2008 a series of riots left 62 people dead; although 21 of those killed were South African citizens the attacks were apparently motivated by xenophobia. The attacks were condemned by a wide variety of organisations and government leaders throughout Africa and the rest of the world. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees expressed concerns about the violence and urged the South African government to cease deportation of Zimbabwean nationals and also to allow the refugees and asylum seekers to regularize their stay in the country. Malawi began repatriation of some of its nationals in South Africa. The Mozambican government sponsored a repatriation drive that saw the registration of at least 3 275 individuals. Despite the south Africa’s inconsistencies in its policies towards Muslim nations, the country’s large communites of Muslims have constantly show their suppots for Khartoum. The African Union decided at a summit earlier in July not to respect the warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity over the conflict in Darfur, and urged the United Nations to suspend the arrest order. Some countries, particularly those sympathetic to Sudan, have flatly condemned the ICC warrant, but others have expressed a more nuanced concern that arresting Bashir could hinder peace efforts in Sudan and called for its suspension. The summit's decision to ignore the warrant raised questions about Africa's commitment to international justice, but ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo later met with AU officials and said the continental bloc and the court were working together to resolve the Darfur crisis.
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