Western Sudan’s Darfur region is regarded as the first genocide site in the twenty-first century, with the climax occurring in 2003. But the media stopped independent coverage more than a decade ago under the weight of President Omar al-Bashir’s regime.
When an arrest warrant against him was issued on the 4th of March, 2009 by pre-trial chamber indicting him on accounts of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide, his administration furiously reacted by ordering the expulsion of more than a dozen international NGOs working in the field of internally displaced persons, alleging them of cooperating with the court in its investigation…..
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