Murderer-in-Chief of Khartoum in-chief of

There are many who sincerely wonder if the warrant of arrest for the dictator would be honored on account of the fact that it has no precedence, and goes against the norms of international law and diplomacy. These ones should understand that there is always a first time for everything. Only change is constant, and flexibility, and not rigidity, is the hallmark and the fulcrum on which all civilizations have been built. The cowardly actions of Elbashir and a determination of the civilized people of the World that Auschwitz and Khmer Rouge Cambodia not be repeated, has led to the fashioning out of a law and a dragging and widening of the net of the culpable, so as to forestall these horrendous deeds. We should celebrate this as a positive watershed in the history of civilization

The dictator continues to gallivant about the Middle East, in defiance of the World court, as if nothing has happened. But he knows deep down in his heart that that indictment was the beginning of the end. If he is an observer of history, he would know that the truth is the only constant component and determining factor of its course. The indictment has deprived Elbashir of that important component of its legitimacy, which even murderous dictators and repressive regimes crave-respect and acceptance. On the day that the indictment was read his government became a pariah, and it has struggled ever since, but without success, to prove that it isn’t. The day of reckoning for the murderer drags nearer with each minute, and he knows it.

Since the day he was indicted he has looked at the faces of his rivals, the opposition, members of civil society and leaders of the Military and security forces and has wondered which of them would first send the dagger into his heart. Ask his wife and numerous concubines, which I suppose he should have, and they would tell you that his nightmares have been unending. He is facing the mental, psychological and emotional torture that tens of thousands have faced in the hands of his executioners, which would not end anytime soon. It is this anticipated and inevitable stabbing that the civilized World should encourage and facilitate. The whole World must understand that lasting change in Sudan can only be brought about when the interests of the African majority in that country are taken into account. If this would only happen at the cost of the dismemberment of the country into four or five countries, along ethnic, religious and racial lines, as it increasingly looks likely, then so be it.