Egyptian Military Academy - Egyptian Military Academy Alumni, Hosni Mubarak, Hassan Abshir Farah, Omar Al-Bashir, Rashad Mehanna (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Egyptian Military Academy Alumni, Hosni Mubarak, Hassan Abshir Farah, Omar Al-Bashir, Rashad Mehanna, Mustafa Fahmi Pasha, Khalid Islambouli, Hussein El-Shafei, Hisham Hafiz, Abdel Ghani El-Gamasy, Mohammed Aly Fahmy, Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel. Excerpt: Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is the president of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. In October 2004, al-Bashir's government negotiated an end to the Second Sudanese Civil War, one of the longest-running and deadliest wars of the 20th century, by granting limited autonomy to Southern Sudan. Since then, however, there has been a violent conflict in Darfur that has resulted in death tolls between 200,000 and 400,000. During his presidency, there have been several violent struggles between the Janjaweed militia and rebel groups such as the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in the form of guerilla warfare in the Darfur region. The civil war has resulted in over 2.5 million people being displaced, and the diplomatic relations between Sudan and Chad being at a crisis level. In July 2008, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICe, Luis Moreno Ocampo, accused al-Bashir of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The court issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on 4 March 2009 on counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him for genocide. The warrant will be delivered to the Sudanese government, which is unlik... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=393625