Dec. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former president of Sudan Omar Hasan al Bashir, who was overthrown in a military coup in April 2019, acknowledged this Tuesday before a court that he was “fully responsible” in the coup that brought him to power in 1989, within the framework of a process in which he could be sentenced to death.
“I assume full responsibility for what happened on June 30 (1989) and I know that this confession is the strongest proof,” said Al Bashir, who has already been convicted of corruption after being ousted from power after nearly 30 years in power. regime, as reported by the Sudanese state news agency, SUNA.
He has also stated that “the members of the Revolutionary Council had no role in the planning and execution, but were chosen to represent their units” after the coup, in which the democratically elected government of Sadiq was overthrown al Mahdi.
Al Bashir is accused along with officials who were part of his government of having participated in the plot, the arrest of political leaders, the suspension of Parliament, the closure of the airport and the overthrow of elected authorities in the framework of the aforementioned coup d’état. .
The investigations into the 1989 coup are an important step by the transitional government agreed upon after the 2019 military coup — toppled in a new coup in November 2021 — against the Islamist political groups that helped the former president reach the to be able to stay in office for close to 30 years.
Al Bashir was sentenced at the end of 2019 to a prison term on corruption charges but has never been prosecuted for the alleged crimes against humanity. There are also two arrest warrants against him from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the alleged abuses committed under his command in the Darfur region.
