Murderer-in-Chief of Khartoum in-chief of
About the slaughter in the Sudan, the indictment of Elbashir and his cohorts by the international criminal court, the imperative of this indictment, the ultimate prosecution of the common criminals and what the international community, especially the Obama administration must do to bring the war criminal to justice.
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THE MURDERER-IN-CHIEF OF KHARTOUM
BY ERNEST EMAKU ENVULADU
The indictment of the War criminal, Omar Elbashir is a step in the right direction. It is clear that this action is justifiably subject to the explanations of that almost inexhaustible cliché called neocolonial conspiracy and treachery. But most people outside those irredeemably morally bankrupt circles in the African and Arab corridors of power would find it acceptable. It is true that it might set the dangerous precedent of creating a platform where powerful governments in the West can deal punish the leaders of enemy governments in less powerful countries, while turning a blind eye to human rights violations committed by them in the process of prosecuting their own wars and other covert actions aimed at furthering their foreign policy agenda.
In this sense, the international criminal court would be understandably explained as a court designed to put adventurous, unbending leaders in the developing world in check. But the fact of injustice in an entire land does not in any way negate the significance of a single act of justice. After all, God might have pardoned Sodom and Gomorrah if he had found five righteous people in a population that ran into tens of thousands. It is better to have one, out of twenty acts of murder, prosecuted and punished than have none at all. Hypocrisy in the application of the law does not in anyway justify breaking it; for it is the crime that is more on trial than the law, or the system of justice, when justice is served
It is important to drum it into the skulls of the devil-advocates that there is a world of difference between the horrendous crimes being committed in the Sudan and any thing that might have happened in places like Iraq or Afghanistan. While the misguidedly civilizing mission, especially in the case of the former, led to a situation, like in all wars, where there was collateral damage; the situation in the Sudan was a calculated attempt at wiping out an entire population of people from the face of the Earth. There is overwhelming evidence supporting Bashir’s indictment and the international criminal court should be allowed to do its job the way it sees fit in this matter. No one in their right senses is oblivious of the fact that the Janjaweed is, not only a creation of the murderous regime in Khartoum, but is actually funded by it.
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