The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a second arrest warrant for Omar Al-Bashir, President of Sudan, for three counts of genocide, a measure which will increase the already mounting international pressure on his regime. This is the first time the ICC, which has jurisdiction over international crimes committed in Darfur, has issued an arrest warrant for genocide. The three counts of genocide under the warrant entail genocide by killing (article 6-a of the Rome Statute of the ICC 1998), genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm (article 6-b) and genocide by deliberately inflicting on each target group conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction (article 6-c).
The first arrest warrant for President Bashir was issued in March 2009, charging the leader with war crimes and crimes against humanity - making it the first warrant issued by the ICC for a sitting head of state.
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