Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (front) welcomes Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi (not pictured) at Khartoum Airport August 29, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, an accused war criminal, as an "old friend" on Tuesday, as China's foreign ministry defended his invite to a military parade to mark the end of World War Two.
The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Bashir in 2009 and 2010, accusing him of masterminding genocide and other atrocities in his campaign to crush a revolt in the western Darfur region.
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