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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir [a] (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. [2]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Russian President Vladimir Putin in November 2017. Omar al-Bashir was indicted on 4 March 2009 on five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes with regard to the situation in Darfur, Sudan. [40] On 12 July 2010 he was additionally charged with three counts of genocide. [39]
Omar Bashir was born in Budapest in 1970. His father, Munir Bashir, had settled in the city and married a Hungarian woman. [6] He began playing the oud with his father at the age of five after he moved to Baghdad, [7] and performed his first 15 minute solo when he was 9 years old. He later attended the Baghdad Music and Ballet School where he ...
On 14 July 2009, the ICC issued an indictment for Omar Bashir for crimes against humanity and for having facilitated and ordered the genocide in Darfur. [38] On 12 July 2010 the ICC issued a second indictment for the arrest of al-Bashir for genocide, this was the first instance of the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for the crime of genocide. [39]
It was unclear to date if al-Bashir would have been allowed to travel, due to previous sanctions. [41] in 1997, after the U.S. placed sanctions on Sudan, banning all American companies from engaging in its oil sector, after allegations that the government of Omar al-Bashir was supporting terrorists and committing human rights violations. [42]
More than 78,000 people were purged from the army, police and civil administration, resulting in a thorough reshaping of the state apparatus. [9] Al-Bashir has been held responsible for the Darfur Genocide by the International Criminal Court, which has sought his extradition since 2008 on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against ...
Omar al-Bashir (right), President of Sudan, watches a ceremony celebrating the founding of South Sudan with Kiir in 2011. Kiir voting in the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum South Sudanese voted overwhelmingly in favor of their independence from Sudan in January 2011, with 98.83% of voters reportedly preferring to split from the ...
Muhammad Bashir (disambiguation), several people; Munir Bashir (1930–1997), Iraqi oud player; Nas Bashir (born 1969), English football player; Omar Bashir (musician) (born 1970), Iraqi-Hungarian musician and oud player, son of Munir Bashir and nephew of Jamil Bashir; Omar al-Bashir (born 1944), President of Sudan and Sudanese army field marshal