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...interview - his first with the American newsmedia since the ICC's arrest warrants were issued - was conducted in collaboration with "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. Here are edited highlights...
There's been a great deal of concern in the international community that there has been no accountability within the Sudanese government for its actions in Darfur - thus we have the arrest warrants issued by the ICC earlier this year. The reaction from your government has been mixed: On the one hand, it's been dismissive of the ICC and said that it's a "terrorist organization." At the same time, your government has taken it quite seriously and viewed it as a real threat. Which is it? How do you perceive the ICC's arrest warrants...
...effects of the ICC's arrest warrants is that you will be unable to travel to, say, the United Nations. How effectively can you represent the government...
...role in the conflict in Darfur, where at least 200,000 people have died since 2003 in a campaign that the Bush Administration described as government-sponsored genocide. The ICC indictments, the first to be handed down against a sitting head of state, obligate the world's nations to arrest al-Bashir on sight. And yet, he points out, he has attended summits and meetings in seven African and Arab countries over the past few months. "I have not felt [any] restrictions of movement," al-Bashir told TIME in an interview that took place in the colonial-era presidential palace...
...sees things differently. Going after rulers like al-Bashir may not lead to an immediate arrest, says the court and its backers, but it makes them pariahs and isolates them. Since the indictment, al-Bashir hasn't set foot in any country that takes its obligation to the court seriously, and although the 52-member African Union last month declared solidarity with al-Bashir against the ICC, a small but growing number of African countries - Uganda is the latest - say they could arrest him if he tries to cross their borders. "It could take two months or two years," says...