Washington condemns amnesty Bashir was involved smuggling U.S. killers
02-12-2013 09:29 PM
The United States strongly condemned the amnesty decree issued by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir right man jailed for helping four convicted of killing two U.S. embassy staff in Khartoum in 2008 to escape from jail.
According to a statement issued by the U.S. embassy in the Sudanese capital late on Monday that the decision to pardon Mubarak Mustafa violates previous assurances by the Sudanese government that issued it will be held accountable both staff has to do with the killing.
The two, two John Granville employee at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and his driver Abdel Rahman Abbas was assassinated by firing squad in the first of January / January 2008 in Khartoum.
The Sudanese judiciary issued death sentences against two men convicted of committing the crime and two other men were accused of colluding with them.
But the four accused managed in June 2010 to escape from jail through a tunnel dug after he killed a policeman and wounded another.
The Sudanese authorities have managed to arrest one of the fugitives, while another was killed later in Somalia.
The U.S. embassy said in her statement, "I condemn Mubarak Mustafa with the help of four to flee. Failure of the Sudanese government to withdraw the amnesty prejudice the commitment of the United States and Sudan to fight terrorism and hold accountable those found to be involved in terrorist activities."
BBC
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