John Prendergast on CNN Newsroom

Date: 
Mar 5, 2009

John Prendergast discusses the ICC's arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir on CNN's Newsroom:

JOHN PRENDERGAST, CO-FOUNDER, THE ENOUGH FOUNDATION: Well, let's look at where he stands in the pantheon of war criminals since the Holocaust. He's responsible -- his regime is responsible for the deaths of about 2.5 million people, either directly or indirectly, over the last 20 years. First in a war in the south and then now in a war in Darfur over the last five or six years. So this guy is -- ranks right up there with some of the great war criminals of the last century. So -- and often along with being a war criminal comes this attitude. This very cavalier attitude about international justice.

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