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Uganda says it is willing to consider asylum for Sudan's ousted leader Bashir
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2019-04-17 | 08:22
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Uganda says it is willing to consider asylum for Sudan's ousted leader Bashir
Uganda will consider offering asylum to ousted Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir despite his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a foreign affairs minister said on Wednesday.
"Uganda would not be apologetic at all for considering an application by Bashir," Okello Oryem, Uganda's state minister for foreign affairs, told Reuters in Kampala.
Bashir, 75, who had ruled Sudan for 30 years after seizing power in a military coup, was toppled by the military last week after months of street protests.
Bashir faces an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over the death of an estimated 300,000 people during an insurgency in Sudan's western Darfur region over a decade ago.
Oryem said Bashir had yet to contact Kampala for possible refuge, but added that there was no harm in considering the fallen Sudanese leader for political asylum.
There was no immediate comment from the ICC in The Hague. ICC member states, which include Uganda, are obligated to hand over indictees who enter their territory.
Though Bashir is under ICC indictment for suspected genocide in Darfur, the transitional military government in Khartoum has said it will not hand him over and instead may try him in Sudan.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has in the past criticized the ICC, describing it as a tool of Western justice against Africans, and he once vowed to mobilize African countries to pull out of the court's founding treaty.
Oryem said the ICC indictment would not be deemed an obstacle to any application for political asylum in Uganda by Bashir.
Relations between Sudan and Uganda, where Museveni has in power since 1986, were frosty in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Uganda accused Bashir-led Sudan at the time of supporting warlord Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) while Sudan alleged Uganda was offering assistance to an anti-Khartoum rebel group, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).
The SPLA later led South Sudan to independence from Khartoum while the LRA, still undefeated but mostly dormant, is believed to be hiding out in a patch of jungle between the borders of Uganda, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo.
After South Sudan's independence in 2011, Museveni and Bashir gradually reconciled and have since jointly championed efforts to end fighting in the newest African country.
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