- BEIRUT: Syrian opposition activists are criticizing the Sudanese head of the Arab League monitoring mission to Syria for serving as a senior official with the “oppressive regime” of President Omar Al-Bashir, who is under an international arrest warrant on charges of committing genocide in Darfur.
Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa Al-Dabi, is a longtime loyalist of Al-Bashir and once served as his head of Sudanese military intelligence.
Amnesty International said under Al-Dabi’s command, military intelligence in the early 1990s “was responsible for the arbitrary arrest and detention, enforced disappearance, and torture or other ill-treatment of numerous people in Sudan.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights meanwhile said Syrian security forces shot dead at least eight people when they fired at anti-government protests in towns across the country.