Sudan's Bashir Pays Defiant Visit to Darfur
Sudanese president Omar Bashir danced before thousands of supporters in Darfur on Wednesday, July 23, 2008, defying a possible arrest warrant for genocide on a heavily protected visit to the war-torn area. Travelling by plane and in an army convoy, Bashir was greeted by thousands of supporters in state capitals El-Fasher and Nyala. His visit comes a week after International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo accused Bashir of instructing his forces to annihilate three non-Arab groups in Darfur, masterminding murder, torture, and using rape to commit genocide.