Omar Al-Bashir Quotes
We will implement what we want. What we do not want, no one can impose on us
Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, Brigadier General, Leader of coup & Interim Prime Minister of Sudan, President & Dictator of Sudan, War Criminal, Comment on the UN Security Council Resolutions Regarding the Independence of South Sudan, Quoted in New York Times, May 13, 2012
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Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as the seventh president of Sudan under various titles from 1989 to 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. He was subsequently incarcerated, tried and convicted on multiple corruption charges. He came to power in 1989 when, as a brigadier general in the Sudanese Army, he led a group of officers in a military coup that ousted the democratically elected government of prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi after it began negotiations with rebels in the south. He was elected three times as President in elections that have been under scrutiny for electoral fraud. In 1992, al-Bashir founded the National Congress Party, which remained the dominant political party in the country until 2019. In March 2009, al-Bashir became the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), for allegedly directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur. On 11 February 2020, the Sudanese government announced that it had agreed to hand over al-Bashir to the ICC for trial.