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Think Twice on Bashir

Throwing Sudan's president in jail would bring a measure of justice. It would also be a disaster for Darfur.

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  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 04/03/2009 11:03:56 AM

    Arrest him? Why not put a cruise missle through his bedroom window? Problem solved.

  • Posted By: 1Blackcitizen! @ 03/12/2009 11:14:05 PM

    After killing some 200,000 or so, a warrant now comes??? What, they couldn't find a judge? But, in a country (USA) where people are killed before they fully arrive....I KNOW YOU CALL IT ABORTION....on demand no less, I really can't get the "moral" outrage concerning Darfur. Through the years I bet more than 200,000 would-be citizens were denied the right to life through abortion. Maybe it's for the good though. A lot of them would probably have grown up to be liberals.

  • Posted By: Sooriamoorthy @ 03/11/2009 7:27:09 AM

    It is dubious whether the warrant does a clear signal to those who have much more blood on their hands as long as they are from and with the West.

  • Posted By: Americanidiotnomore @ 03/10/2009 5:11:35 PM

    As a human being, I am very upset by the violence and bloodshed in Darfur. BUT I also find it very interesting how the number of dead in the Darfur has gone from 200,000 to 300,000 in a matter of months. I suspect the claim will be 6,000,000 by the end of the year.

    I have spent much time looking at Darfur, and I am NOT buying what the media is selling. I think there are foreign sponsorred militias in CHAD, and I put the blame on them and not the Government of the Sudan.

    If there was not a sea of oil under the sands of Darfur, there would be no violence. In my opinion the plan is to cause chaos as a justification to insert UN controlled troops, control the land and steal the resources.

  • Posted By: schiza @ 03/10/2009 9:39:57 AM

    It's a complex political question.

  • Posted By: schiza @ 03/10/2009 9:37:49 AM

    It's a complex political question.

  • Posted By: mikelueth @ 03/06/2009 5:00:49 AM

    Scripted (27th jun 2008)
    Typed (3rd jan 2009)

    I can only call on you to resign Mr President of Sudan.
    ???Formal Darfur???, current Darfur and ???next Darfur??? Mr President?! Enough is simply enough!

    ???When innocent people, even Muslims, are slaughtered by Muslims, I call on you to resign.

    ???When innocent people are displaced, their shelters set on fire; I call on you to resign.

    ???When people who are politically innocent, people who are happy to be left alone, forgotten about, people who want to live life their way are traumatised and left to whisper to themselves what their next minute future might be, I call on you to resign.

    ???When innocent children of innocent parents are slaughtered or raped and left orphans, I call on you to resign.
    ???When wombs of innocent mothers continue to collapse in despair for their dead innocent children, I call on you to resign.

    ???When I continue to hear through the airs of the earth the disturbing echoes of innocent mothers and fathers weeping for their innocent children slaughtered or raped in front of them. When I continue to hear their echoes of cry of admission that what their children are facing is their fault because of having them in the first place. When I continue to hear them say ???lucky are mothers and fathers of those children who are not yet born???, I call on you to resign!

    ???When I continue to hear them say ??? lucky are those who are blind for they will eye-witness it not , lucky are those who are deft because they will hear it not and lucky are those who have their murderers brought to justice ??? I call on you to resign!

    ???When I continue to understand that what you are responsible for has been felt as a shame by those who therefore deserve the absolute respect, that what you are responsible for has become a priority for celebrities raising awareness and funds , school kids drawing traumatised kids instead of a Spiderman or Simpson_kids going camping to raise awareness and funds instead of jumping up and down going to a park, and writers documenting black death and trauma instead of Olympic or FIFA World cup wins or???! Many people who have never thought about taking part in a rescue mission of this kind or in a politics of any kind, I call on you to resign!

    By Sudanese university design student in USA (c.m.l.a.a)_so let you know it???s about lives not anything..


    • Posted By: mikelueth @ 03/09/2009 8:32:48 AM

      we longed to see a justice day for all that has been done but this could be the beginning of it ...

      • Posted By: cherio @ 03/10/2009 6:04:58 AM

        I am very grateful for the International court of Justice to bring Bashier to justice!
        For so long he has not only taking his shower with the blood of the innnocent but his own breath was full of poisonous gas of hatred which has suffocated the innocent! As a human being is my trust and confidence in UN has rocketed!
        Unfortunately we are cursed with the AU Africkans Union who are not speaking for the innocent but are playing to the tune of the Arabische and Al bashier merely for the million and millions of the oil dollars! The corrrupted AU!

  • Posted By: abyabarow @ 03/06/2009 11:57:35 AM

    Al-Bashir not to be subject to the ICC Warrant and will in our heart and will sacrifice ourselves.

    • Posted By: Darfurean @ 03/09/2009 5:06:06 PM

      Do you know how many of his own people he killed? do you know how he committed his crimes and for how long? If you do not know, you better learn. if you know and saying that he should not be responsible for his own genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, then, you are responsible for your own ignorance..

  • Posted By: Darfurean @ 03/09/2009 4:56:04 PM

    We, Darfuries, do not believe that AlBashir could believe in peace and justice in Sudan, not only in Darfur. Warrant suspension is not a solution not for Darfur nor for CPA. Since, ICC process began in 2005, AlBashir has done nothing except empy promises. We have seen how the government of Sudan has blocked aid from most needy people in campuses. We have seen how this government of criminals (genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity) has constantly refused to UNAMID forces to reach Darfur. As, we give them more time, we will keep seeing more worse in whole Sudan not only in Darfur. The ICC has to work and continue work to bring justice in Darfur. UN has to support ICC to bring what UN failed in 6 years to bring through this warrant of arrest of the head of Genociders in Sudan. The World should not be shame to support ICC to bring the justice by presenting AlBashir to face trial.
    Leave unfair fears which led us to this point. Such fears like this articles that we suffer from for 6 years.

  • Posted By: benpattaya @ 03/09/2009 4:00:26 AM

    Misgivings however justified of U.S's non-involvement or the selectiveness of justice would not cut much ice in the longer term. And worries of its provoking and enlarging the disaster in Darfur or similar internal districts are unconvincing given the multitude of international aid mechanism with the right conviction.
    There may indeed be expensive legal egos involved but that should not be reason to be taken against what could evolve to be an effective operating mechanism in redressing the biased relationship between the ruler and the ruled and promoting good governance.

  • Posted By: smadalhatu @ 03/08/2009 1:10:54 AM

    The Bushes and Sharons are sacred cows, indeed. Blame nobody but the myopic muslim who thinks to the West positively, dreaming acceptance.

  • Posted By: smadalhatu @ 03/08/2009 1:06:07 AM

    And the Bushes and Sharons are sacred cows! None is more myopic than the 'uncle Tom' type muslim.

  • Posted By: Aarony @ 03/07/2009 11:46:27 PM

    ICC just think they are God, the righteous law. Actually, they are completely ignorance and stupid people only, not better than you and me. A good laugh only.

  • Posted By: Reg373 @ 03/07/2009 5:19:00 PM

    **Throwing Sudan's president in jail would bring a measure of justice. It would also be a disaster for Darfur.**

    What of the current disaster? International pressure will be the only way to progress, on the horrible world tragedy known as Darfur -- came across a cool site; Balkingpoints.com ; awesome satellite camera view of earth

    • Posted By: pug_ster @ 03/07/2009 9:44:02 PM

      That's right. Get Bashir. Throw him in jail. Then create a power vacuum that will result in a civil war. Heck we did that to remove a sitting leader like Saddam and it cost us 1 trillion dollars, thousands of Americans died, more than 500,000 civilians died. Of course the western propaganda don't see that as a downside.

  • Posted By: YODA60 @ 03/07/2009 2:02:30 PM

    President Bashir has clearly demonstrated the level of his concern for his people by truculantly bsanishing inbternational aid agencies who have provded essential humanitarian services in his country. Now, in the interest of potential agreements (which seem to be ever far-off in some distant future) the international community should defer charging this monster and prosecuting him for his crimes? I think not. The international community has sanctioned Mugabe of Zimbabwe to what effect? The West must face the present consequences its own reluctance to intervene in a genocidal disaster. We acted in Bosnia, why not Rwanda-Burundi, or Darfur? Are the lives of Africans less important than those of eastern and southern Europeans? Is the international community more accepting of brutality and slaughter in Africa than in Europe? What gives, here? Is the World community striving to establish humane standards of political conduct? If so, how can genocidal slaughter prompt us to intervene in one region and ignore another?

  • Posted By: stark1 @ 03/06/2009 9:10:36 PM

    This analysis of this article is pathetic, of course those of the African Union and Muslim associations prefer a deferal, a permanent one at that, because most of them are guilty of the same crimes (just without the publicity). The only problem with the U.N. calling for the arrest of Omar Bashir, is that they don't have the courage to follow through with such actions, they shelll out warranted and unwarranted threats, year after year. The only danger is these violent and evil dictators will call the U.N. bluff and further impose their will and fist on any disenting group. The U.N. should follow through and show the dictators and theocracies throughout Africa and the Middle East, that their is consequences for acts of rape and vicious killings sponsored by the state.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 03/05/2009 10:06:34 PM

    "Should the president of Sudan, the notorious Omar al-Bashir, go to jail?" WHAT ABOUT BUSH?

    • Posted By: Berserker @ 03/06/2009 8:39:36 PM

      Of course, all politicians prior to and after Bush should be in jail...haven't you notice that Congress exempted politicians from prosecution under the RICO statutes?

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 03/05/2009 10:14:57 PM

    "Backed by strong U.S. leadership, a conditional deferral must also be accompanied by a reinvigorated peace effort in Sudan, refocusing the international community on the CPA and pressing all parties for a negotiated settlement in Darfur." WHY SHOULD THERE NEED TO BE A US BACKING, UNLESS OF COURSE THE US IS ALWAYS INVOLVED IN ALL THINGS SINISTER.

    • Posted By: Berserker @ 03/06/2009 8:38:10 PM

      The US is always involved and is responsible for everything.

  • Posted By: Wiseman of sudan @ 03/06/2009 12:47:41 AM

    I am just curious how come the ICC doesn't have the right to prosecute an American citizens but can indict a head of state just funny. I am just worried that the west is digging themselves deeper and deeper in the mist of what their countries are going through. So many states will fail because of the global economy and they still trying to create more hot spots. This is remain of G. W. Bush bad foreign policy i hope Obama will take the right stand against it

    • Posted By: Berserker @ 03/06/2009 8:37:19 PM

      You are right. America is responsible for everything.

  • Posted By: Berserker @ 03/06/2009 8:34:51 PM

    Someone does something worse than anything any politician in America has ever even considered and there are excuses. Consistency is a wonderful thing. Never going to happen at Newsweek.

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