TIME Op-ed on Omar al-Bashir's Escape
Posted by Enough Team on Jun 15, 2015
Editor's Note: This op-ed was written by the Enough Project's Founding
Director John Prendergast and Sudan and South Sudan Policy Analyst
Akshaya Kumar and originally appeared in TIME as "The Sudanese
President’s Escape Highlights the Determination of African Lawyers" on
June 15, 2015.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been dodging an
International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for years, is now
safely back in Khartoum. But he returns branded with the scarlet
letter of a wanted man, a fugitive from international justice.
Over the weekend, a South African judge responded to a local group’s
petition for his arrest by issuing a court order preventing Bashir,
who stands accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity, from leaving the country. Bashir was in South Africa to
mingle with other presidents and prime ministers at the African
Union’s semi-annual summit. The AU’s ongoing opposition to the ICC’s
work in Africa had a prime position on the agenda. But creative
lawyering helped South African civil society groups steal the
headlines and turn the summit’s spotlight back to Darfur’s
long-suffering people.
Read the full op-ed in TIME.
Sudan and South Sudan
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