Int'l court: Reconsider Al-Bashir genocide charges

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Source: AP

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International Criminal Court appeals judges have ordered the original panel to reconsider indicting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with waging genocide in Darfur.

The court charged al-Bashir with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in March 2009 for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture, rape and forced expulsions in Darfur province. But judges said there was insufficient evidence to merit charging him with three genocide counts.

Prosecutors appealed the decision.

Appeals judge Erkki Kourula of Finland said Wednesday that that ruling set the standard of evidence too high and ordered the judges to look again at filing genocide charges.



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