The international criminal court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Sudan's president Omar Al Basher, yesterday. The warrant however fell short of accusing Al-Basher of committing genocide and accuses him of seven war crimes including crimes against humanity, which include murder, rape and torture. The three-judge panel said it had insufficient grounds for genocide.
For me, this is nothing to do with bringing justice, it is basically politicizing international institutions taking the side of western plans of dominating regions by force and cutting off any benefits emerging economies are getting from fair deals in other developing countries. Here we are mainly considering China. Consider the following points to know where I'm coming from:
- Before the "conflict" in the Darfur region China's import of Oil from the African continent was around 30% of its total imports, of which 35% was imported from Sudan and the Darfur region specifically. The Sudanese government has always favored Chinese companies compared to Western oil companies that were not allowed to benefit from the new discoveries in the Darfur region. But since the start of the "conflict" in 2003 China's import of oil from Sudan has decreased and now is roughly around 10% of its total imported oil from Africa.
- The "conflict" that was in the South of Sudan which took up the lives of approximately 3 million Sudanese people was not even picked up by the ICC or any western country as being acts of genocide or war crimes. However, when a "conflict" in Darfur is going on, and when it has been going on for a much shorter period of time compared to the conflict in the South, there is an instant uproar and condemnation to the acts of supposedly "Arab" militias backed by the Sudanese government against "the people of Darfur".
- The "conflict" started when rebels in the Darfur region took up arms against the government.
- And the fact that Abdel Wahid al-Nur, the leader of the largest rebel group in Darfur (who has been exiled where he stayed in France since 2001) met top defense officials in Israel to discuss their support for the rebels forces. This same person and from Israel, rejected the 'goodwill' agreement signed by the Sudanese government and rebel factions in Doha, Qatar. The rejection came on the same day the agreement was signed while Abdel Wahid Al-Nur was in Israel meeting defense officials and mossad agents as different sources mention.
What bothers me most though is how in a Haaretz article it says that Abdel Wahid Al Nur is supported by humanitarian organizations. I wonder what type of humanitarian organizations those are that supported a person who was the main reason for the start of this conflict, a man that refuses to even agree to sit down and negotiate instead of fighting and having more innocent people killed.
To try to convince me that this has been done to bring justice and peace... the decision by the ICC to charge Bashir with human rights violations and other war crimes thinking that this will bring just and peace is just ridiculous! the only thing this will manage to create is more turmoil in Sudan and worsen the situation there.
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