Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of the International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC), has issued the following statement condemning the indictment of President Omar Hasan Ahmad Al Bashir of the Republic of Sudan by the International Criminal Court. RESIST THE IMPERIALIST MANEUVER TO DESTABILIZE SUDAN BY INDICTING PRESIDENT OMAR HASAN AHMAD AL BASHIR The International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) strongly condemns the recent action of the International Criminal Court of issuing a warrant of arrest of H.E. Omar Hasan Ahmad Al Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan. This is an assault on the sovereignty of an independent state, and is nothing but an imperialist conspiracy against Sudan which is following a policy of development not guided by the imperialist dictates. Sudan has not granted the imperialist powers access to its rich oil resources and opposed the US-led war against Iraq and its subsequent occupation. This has infuriated USA and its allies who are bent on destabilizing the country. They fanned up ethnic conflicts in Sudan and militarily trained, aided and incited the rebel groups to fight against the Sudan Government. It is a common imperialist strategy to foment mistrust and division among the different ethnic groups in a country, to instigate civil wars, and to allow these to continue through direct intervention and supporting one group against the other. Afterwards they cry hoarse on ‘war crimes’ and ‘crimes against humanity’, and demand that the perpetrators must be tried and punished. We witnessed it in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in Yugoslavia. And everywhere such charges were leveled against that side which was most opposed to the imperialists. On an entirely motivated and false allegation about possession of weapons of mass destruction USA and its allies invaded and occupied Iraq and devastated the country. We witness a similar imperialist policy in action against Sudan - a conspiracy is being hatched against the country. After instigating the internal conflict the imperialist powers are now vocal about ‘genocide’ in Darfur. They have launched a propaganda blitz on the sufferings of the people in Darfur and are calling for direct military intervention and a permanent presence of Western powers in Sudan to monitor the situation. The imperialist powers are using the International Criminal Court as their tool to destabilize independent countries and bring them under their control. They have done this in the past and they are doing it now. We emphasize that the Sudanese people are the sole custodians of their country. It is they alone who can chart out a course for tackling all their internal problems without any foreign interference or any external pressure. Sudanese people do not need to be taught by the imperialists how to protect human rights. The IAPSCC affirms its solidarity with the Sudanese people in their fight against imperialism to protect the sovereignty of their country. The IAPSCC calls upon the freedom-loving people all over the world to come out in protest against the imperialist maneuvers and organize movements to foil their conspiracy. Sent by: Office of International Anti-imperialist and People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC). e-mail – aiaif_2...@yahoo.com
