Sudan’s Bashir warns foreign diplomats that they face expulsion

March 16, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir warned in an interview today that his government is prepared to expel foreign missions if they exceed their mandate.


Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir (Reuters)

“I tell them that we are even ready to expel ambassadors if they exceed their diplomatic mission” he warned.

Bashir also said that the order he gave to expel more than a dozen aid groups from Darfur was a message to the Western world.

“We have 87 NGOs in Darfur and we expelled 12 of them which had intelligence-linked activities” he said in an interview due to be published in Egypt’s independent Al-Isboa weekly on Saturday.

“Their expulsion is a clear message and I hope that the West and the Americans will understand it. We will not be afraid of their threats or of their media which tell lies” the Agence France Presse (AFP) published as translated text of the interview.

The Sudanese leader stepped up his anti-Western rhetoric since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him on seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which include murder, rape and torture.

Khartoum has expelled the UN Special representative to Sudan Jan Pronk 2006 after writing about military defeats of the Sudanese army in Darfur.

In the past Sudanese officials have made several threats to evict other Western diplomats including the US charge D’Affaires Alberto Fernandez.

(ST)

3 Forum messages

you are diying Dude 20 March 2009 07:29, by soldier boy

Well mr president is good to get agrassive and maad when you are about to go hell soon. because of your stupidty. America is a great country that gives his people freedom of speech, same as the West too . i thanks God there something call America to help people like Darfur people and every body in the world is courdecy from American people to help people who do not have freedom of speech like them, thank you America and western world too. mr Al Bashir you are about to face the truths. truths hurts sometimes and that what you got now. it’s hurt that American and Western did not let you kill and rape incents people in Darfur. you were lucky for what you did in southern Sudan people but this time you are not lucky no more. You Ara Diying Dude ah ah ah ah

you are diying Dude 20 March 2009 09:45, by Anyuathwakou

Basher has just remained as the grave, even though he continue doing the bad things than nobody should ask him because what he trying to do is not the fisrt mistake for him since the war began in Darfur in 2003 up to now many people are still dead.Leave his words and let him go to the Hague for trial.
- you are diying Dude 20 March 2009 17:43, by Chol Mangarrial
  
  I think Mr. Bashir is a dying horse and He is trying to drag-in some countries into his own messes and this is why He has been making pubic appearances since warrant arrest was issued two weeks ago. He is now trying to compare situations in Sudan with that of Afghanistan, Israel and Iraq while there is no clear clarifications to support his argurments. I think He is just looking for somebody to die for him, and He didn’t know that this is an irreversable circumstance, He better give up before getting caught like Saddam Hussein and this will be shameful to his muslims brothers and followers around the globe when time come, Thanks,