Hague court issues warrant for Sudan's Bashir

Who will go in and arrest Bashir? Reuters

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur, a decision that could spark more regional turmoil.

Maybe we should do nothing and hope that the genocide just goes away.

The warrant is the first issued against a sitting head of state by the Hague-based ICC, which stopped short of including a count of genocide over a conflict that United Nations officials say has killed as many as 300,000 people since 2003.

International reaction to Wednesday's ICC decision was mixed. The United States welcomed the ICC's decision but China urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to heed calls from African and Arab countries and suspend the case against Bashir.