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S. Sudan, Uganda Link Peace to Bashir Indictment
Posted by Reuters on Monday, March 16, 2009 at 2:25 PM (PST)
KAMPALA, March 12 (Reuters) - South Sudan's and Uganda's leaders said on Thursday any deferral of the arrest warrant for Sudan's leader should depend on whether Khartoum implements shaky peace deals.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an indictment this month against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes in the Darfur region where, experts say, fighting has killed at least 200,000 people since 2003.
Some analysts fear the indictment could further undermine fragile peace deals in the country's north-south conflict, and further escalate violence in Darfur in the west.
On Tuesday, Sudan said it was looking at how to get the arrest warrant suspended or quashed. [nLA931822]
"(Deferment) would have to be tied to the performance of the peace processes in southern Sudan, in Darfur and (in other parts of Sudan)," Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told reporters.
When asked to comment on Museveni's statement, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir said: "I don't see any better option."
South Sudanese forces have in the past accused Khartoum of failing to implement parts of a 2005 truce that ended two decades of civil war between the north and south of Africa's biggest country.
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