Zuma hatched plot facilitating Bashir’s escape from S Africa
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
This article comes against the backdrop of the Génocidaire Omer
al-Bashir escaping arrest by South African Court through a plot
hatched by the Government of President Jacob Zuma on Monday 15, June
2015.
Background information about Omer al-Bashir’s crimes is important
before delving into the current events that led to his escaping
arrest. In 2009, Omer al-Bashir and three of his senior aides,
Abdelrahim Muhammed Hussein, Ahmed Harun and a Janjaweed commander Ali
Abdelrahman Kosheib indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC)
on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. The
following year, 2010, the ICC also charged Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir
with three counts of genocide and issued arrest warrant.
Troops under al-Bashir’s command in Darfur have spent years attacking
and destroying villages, chasing survivors into the dessert,
surrounding refugee camps, killing almost 500,000 in cold blood and
uprooting millions of civilians from land –known locally as Hawakeer
they possessed for centuries. When applying for a warrant for his
arrest, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said
clearly that al-Bashir’s “intent was genocide” and that he wanted to
erase the history of an entire people.
The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir oversaw it all. He remained as
one of the world’s most wanted men, charged with a horrific genocide.
Nevertheless, for 6 years no one has succeeded in apprehending
al-Bashir and locking him up.
During the period Sunday 14 – Monday 15, June 2015, Omer al-Bashir was
in a state of ruefulness in South Africa fearing apprehension and
handing him over to the ICC at The Hague. Nevertheless, the
Génocidaire Bashir managed slipping and flying out of South Africa
despite Pretoria High Court decision. Political analysts strongly
believe that a plot Hatched by the government of President Jacob Zuma
facilitated for Bashir escaping Arrest in Pretoria.
The position of Zuma in Pretoria is not surprising given the issue of
the African dictatorship Club whose members work for their survival in
power. The authoritarianism group sticks to the conspiracy theory that
the West always targeted its members and conspired to incarcerate them
into the darkness of prison in the International Criminal Court at The
Hague. The Pan-Africanist rhetoric says that the ICC only targets the
African leaders.
Thus, the Génocidaire Omar al-Bashir managed to escape from the
mousetrap of South African Court for survival and fled to his den in
Khartoum. The disgusting and abhorrent conspiracy theory utilized by
the African Union (AU) Dictators Club to cover up their heinous crimes
against the disenfranchised fellow citizens and to exonerate the
perpetrators among their ranks.
The Southern African Litigation Centre, a legal rights group, had
launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court to force the
authorities to arrest the Génocidaire Omer Hassan Ahmed al- Bashir.
South Africa is a signatory to the States Parties to the Rome Statute,
which established the (ICC) that has often been criticised for only
targeting Africa leaders.
The justification that the Government of Jacob Zuma relied on for
allowing al-Bashir to leave as the duty to protect its invited guests
the heads of states of the African Union (AU) countries is utterly
flimsy, given the fact that South Africa is in the Rome Statute of
2002 members.
President Jacob Zuma had betrayed the noble spirit of the people of
South Africa’s struggle against apartheid. At the time of the
Apartheid, the people of Sudan stood steadfast with the struggle of
the disenfranchised South African people. The people of Sudan were not
waiting for the leadership of South Africa to deal the Sudanese cause
with such flout that ignores the blood of the victims and the noble
Sudanese people struggle for freedom, justice and democracy. The
judiciary in South Africa is exposed to a difficult and historic test
to either prove its integrity and independence or trample its glory
and reputation in the ground. The ruling African National Congress
(ANC) party has already protested against arrest and could pressure
the court to give in. However, a massive outcry can ensure they stay
out of it, given the fact that it is a legal decision, not a political
one. South Africa should arrest al-Bashir and either try him for
genocide, or send him to the International Criminal Court, political
analyst said.
On Sunday14, June 2015, Judge Hans Fabricius ordered authorities to
stop Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir from leaving the country, pending a
decision on whether it should order his arrest or not. The court was
due to reconvene at 11.30am (09.30 GMT) on Monday, 15 June 2015 when a
member of al-Bashir’s delegation brushed aside the court case, telling
Agence France-Presse (AFP) “President Bashir... will leave on Monday
15, June 2015.”
The African Union (AU) 54-member summit chaired by Zimbabwe’s
President Robert Mugabe in Johannesburg invited al-Bashir to attend.
The International Criminal Court (ICC), arrest warrant for the
Génocidaire Omer al- Bashir overshadowed the AU meeting. Al-Bashir is
a genocidal criminal fugitive from the international justice. He
annihilated more than 500000 innocent civilians and forced more than
half the population to leave their homes fleeing into the middle of
nowhere in makeshift camps for refugees, as Internally Displaced
People (IDP), or as Diasporas. There is indistinguishable similarity
between the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Sudan and the
White Supremacy entity of the former Apartheid South Africa.
Sudan’s ruling regime of the NCP-led by the genocidal criminal Omar
al-Bashir has been practicing the same apartheid tactics but tougher
and more arbitrarily against the people of Sudan in the Darfur region,
as was practiced by the White minority against the Majority People of
South Africa. President Jacob Zuma and his government is definitely
aware of this, but intersection of the interests played a major role
in allowing Omar al-Bashir to escape from being arrested and handed
over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. The
United States imposed sanctions against the Islamist regime of the
National Islamic Front (NIF). More than 20,000 international
peacekeepers, known as United Nations and African Union Mission for
Darfur (UNAMID), poured into Darfur.
Omer al-Bashir who has been ruling people of Sudan with iron fist for
26 years and starting further five-rear term will inevitably attend
under arrest to The Hague to face the result of the crimes he
committed in the right of the people of Sudan in Darfur. The African
dictators club has nothing to do with the rights of peoples of the
continent. All that they care for is to stay in power for indefinite
terms, whether the people of the country people refused or accepted
the feta accompli situation.
The ICC is still young and a nascent institution and because of
political maneuvers, al-Bashir has avoided arrest in several countries
over the years. Some — including the ANC — have criticized the court
for focusing on crimes in Africa. Nevertheless, most of the cases at
the ICC were brought forward by the countries themselves and Sudan is
one of just two cases where the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
managed to agree to bring perpetrators to the court. Moreover, when it
comes to crimes as horrific as those in Darfur, its justice that
should matter, not politics, political analysts continued saying. The
accused of leading a horrific genocide in Darfur, Omar Hassan Ahmed
al-Bashir has escaped arrest for 6 years. The world needs taking
action to bring Omar al-Bashir to justice. Omer al-Bashir sneaked out
of South Africa fearing impending apprehension and handing him over to
the (ICC). Bashir’s scape has been decried as disgraceful scar on the
non-apartheid state of South Africa.
The blood of the victims of genocide in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains,
Ingasana in South Blue Nile, the victims of the massacres of the Beja
in Eastern Sudan and the Nubians in the far north of Sudan await
Justice. As well, the victims of human rights violations in all parts
of Sudan, and the recent massacre of the civilians in the Khartoum
North neighbourhood of Al-Jiraif Sharg, who struggled steadfast for
their land rights and the wails of the widows would not go unheeded
without accountability or transitional justice and revenge.
Sudan’s army, National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and
militia, the notorious Rapid Support Force (RSF) have been terrorizing
and displacing the population of Darfur out of their homes for years.
They murdered the men, raped women and small girls in front of their
families. Moreover, they have escaped justice until now. The hope
rests on the good humane people of the world to support the efforts of
the components of the Sudanese people to bring about change in the
country by ousting the National Congress Party (NCP) regime by all
available means. The people of Sudan are struggling for democracy,
freedoms, rule of law, good governance, sustainable peace and
prosperity with decent living.
Quote about a Tyrant states: “In every age it has been the tyrant, the
oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of
patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."
Eugene V. Debs, Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is an author, columnist and a blogger. His
blog is http://thussudan.wordpress.com/
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19 June 05:45, by Akol Liai Mager
The task to hold Al-Bashir accountable for his crimes is on the
shoulders of the Sudanese and opposition forces. What you and the rest
in the opposition need to do is unify your ranks and efforts and
Bashir with his thugs will soon be brought to book only by Sudanese
hands and minds.
repondre message
21 June 13:35, by Eastern
In Africa all presidents/head of state ARE ABOVE THE LAW including
those of their countries and international ones to be executed by the
countries the head. The recent ICC fiasco in apprehending Bashir is
just one of the latest glaring example!
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