On Wednesday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) judges will announce if they will indict the Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir in charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The war crimes court's chief prosecutor says there is strong evidence in favor of his Darfur genocide case against al-Bashir, who said any move by ICC to seek his arrest would be worthless. The Sudanese government has announced that it is not concerned with ICC's jurisdiction. It tightened the security measures on ambassadors and embassies.
"Any decision by the International Criminal Court is of no value to us," Sudan's leader said at the inauguration of a dam on the Nile north of Khartoum. "It will not be worth the ink it is written with. They will issue their decision tomorrow, and we are telling them to immerse it in water and drink it. When the UN Security Council issued its resolution No. 1760 calling for deploying international forces in Darfur, we told them to immerse it in water and drink it, and now we tell them to do the same thing," al-Bashir said. Some Western embassies have warned their nationals against the eruption of violent strikes if al-Bashir was condemned. The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) said it would organize violent actions in case ICC indicted al-Bashir. On the other hand, the UN peacekeeping forces in Sudan expect that they would not be attacked after the ICC decision
