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Sudanese diplomat says President Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria after human
rights lawyers and civil rights activists demanded his arrest.
Al-Bashir
has been indicted for genocide and war crimes in Darfur.
The
diplomat who would not give his name told The Associated Press that al-Bashir
left at 3 p.m. Monday, less than 24 hours after he arrived and in the middle of
a two-day summit ending Tuesday.
He
denied that al-Bashir's hasty departure was related to demands for his arrest.
Human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit Monday to try to compel the government to
detain Sudan's president and surrender him to the International Criminal Court
for trial.
Nigeria's
government says it followed an African Union instruction that its 53 member
states should not arrest al-Bashir.
He should not be arrested in Nigeria because he didn't commit the said crime in Nigeria,however,we are all aware of the gravity of the crime but he should face the music where he committed the crime.
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