The International Criminal Court referred Chad to the UN Security Council on Wednesday over its failure to arrest Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir for a second time.
The referral comes 2 days after Malawi suffered a similar fate.
A statement by the ICC read,
“Today, the pre-trial chamber of the ICC decided that the Republic of Chad failed to cooperate with the court by not arresting and surrendering Omar al-Bashir during his visit to Chad on 7 and 8 August 2011,”
“The chamber decided to refer the matter to both the United Nations Security Council and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, founding treaty of the ICC,”
The ICC issued an arrest warrant on Bashir in 2008, for charges of war crimes and genocide in Darfur. He is believed to be responsible for over 300,000 deaths since 2003.
The UN Security Council have previously been urged, by the ICC, to take action against Kenya and Djibouti too, for failing to arrest Bashir during state visits, however no action has been taken.
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