So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
By Isaiah Abraham
March 5, 2009 — Before we talk too much, let’s hail the efforts exerted by the President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS), His Excellency Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit on this crisis (ICC so called warrant of arrest against Al Bashir). GOSS President spare no time to try to diffuse the situation privately and publicly in his capacity as the First Vice President of the Sudan and as the Chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). He is on record from the word go that the ICC will not be justice or peace. He personally traveled to the sponsors of the ICC and ask them to give peace a chance. You know that history, don’t you?. May this man take us to the other side of the river while spoilers drown. Allah, protect this man!
To our topic now: the said arrest warrant against the Sudanese President is empirical and unrealistic and therefore unnecessary and uncalled for. just to begin. But the long awaited ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague has come and is gone, what do we make of its as Sudanese, not as parties or individuals? Think about it before you hurry!
Despondently, our country has been embarrassed, abused and humiliated by non other than the so-called super power- the force behind the ICC reckless ruling. Honestly, with all its other positive contribution for others in the world including Sudan, the world leading power again failed the test of being a respected country in the planet. That country couldn’t be persuaded on the basis of its new leader and image its wants to create after its almost debacles adventures everywhere in the world; but instead, it shamelessly confirmed everyone fears others think about this country. Wait a minute, you must be wondering why am highlighting that power along among other rogue Westerners. I have a case to prove that they are indeed the one behind all the troubles that beset Sudan and perhaps the world today. Too much charge, isn’t it? So…
Despite the clamour for deferral of the ICC case to allow more reasoning to sip in, that country pressed ahead with its damn agenda to topple the Sudanese legitimate government and install another regime that will be more open to its dirty foreign policies. A native of that land for example, told me couples of weeks ago that the CPA is dead, what do I think. I told her to tell this news to a bird not me! Dead? With all the shortcomings and the slow pace in the CPA, that agreement isn’t dead or on any death row. The NCP and the SPLM are both doing their best to ensure that the end of the agreed period (2011) is reallied. Southerners have faith in the CPA. The CPA connects us with Al Bashir. This is a fact whether we deny it or not.
Some furthermore have gone ahead to conclude that the CPA has exceeded its usefulness and therefore should be replaced since it doesn’t cover Darfur. I have argued that this is another cheap commodity the wise customer won’t buy it; who connects Darfur problem with that of the South? What relationship does Darfur issue has with that of the Southern Sudan? We are two different entities with different problems. Southerners rejected ICC on the basis of its interest in 2011 and Darfuris wanted the ICC because of power and resource sharing. This is Northern difference and hence unrelated.
I’m not done yet with that country. That country and its allies know that Al Bashir arrest attempt shall make situation worse for everyone, didn’t we say this before? What will the international community do now to the situation in Darfur without the international NGOs serving the displaced persons? Sanction or invasion, we will all live to see. What about Qatar peace initiative, how is it going to move forward again given the polluted ICC environment. Do we know that the head of State is thinking of declaring the state of emergency; and even if he backs down, there will be another one underneaths and here comes the query, what then is the ICC warrant of arrest meant to achieve, when it more than clear that there will be no justice or peace.
Let me turn to the warrant of arrest ruling before I wind up on that country. Now the President is arrest warranted who’s going to apprehend him and drag him to The Court in the Hague without a blood. The USA or JEM? The good lawyer (Mr. Luis Ocampo) however has confessed that the Security Council will chip in, and to my pet, that is not going to happen in the Sudan! Hence the irrational behind the ruling.
But to this author, the ruling is a simple manifestation of poor judgement on the side of foreigners on the internal affairs of the Sudan, particularly Darfur. The case initially if we are serious lacks the legal ligaments saved for isolated incidences brought about by the war situation that was launched by the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) against the government of the Sudan in March 2003. Lobbyists and activists made mountain of them. The situation in that region before the SLM rebellion could informed everyone what could happen if war breaks out there. Someone should have gone there to study Darfur internal situation before making judgement about what really took place during the war or after the war.
In the mind of many, Janjaweed is a creation of the ruling party in the Sudan, and I disagree. That is incorrect and a wrong. But also if Sudan fail to protect it citizens, who is that country to judge it singlehandedly; does that country thinks that Al Bashir is invincible to anyone here unless he’s force out by the outsider? Let me say this: the powerful nation on earth has never known Sudanese way of doing things and am afraid they will learned a bitter lesson in this case of Al Bashir.
Please get me right, am not disputing some abuses in Darfur or overlooked justice; no, that is not the case here. My humble take as it always been is this: you can’t apply justice before peace or apply justice just out of nowhere. A flat form is important. One thing first before the other. Mr. Ocampo lies that the displaced are dying slowing in the camps or are being air raided; that could be true but that isn’t not enough ground to displace peace. Sudan need peace not justice, just to repeat ourselves. Even if you want justice, is that right to pick one area out of others or fight justice that might not be achieved with cheap price. The innocent lives moreover that are going to go through the quest of justice, who’s going to be responsible? Their blood I guess will be on the neck Mr. Ocampo!
Not so long ago, the same country was warned to leave another country it wanted to invade alone, but they refused and went in there wily-nilly and the consequences are well known facts to the world today. That country never learned from its foreign policy gaffes and Sudan crisis have proved many that its indeed a country to hate. The country couldn’t move an inch away from its past; what does that nation really want? Who do they think they are in the world.
This country is full of shaningans, hypocrites and liars. Africans must think twice about their ties with them, I proposed. Sudan in particular ought to move East now No human being would like the kind of treatment the American is subjecting the world in to.
Those who question the West and neo-colonialism in this continent are either sidelined, ignored or killed. We have examples, don’t we? Patrick Lumumba, Khame Nkaruma, Samora Machel, Laurent Desire Kibala, Butrus B. Ghaly, Nelson Mandela, Jones Sabimbi, John Garang, Isaias Aferworki, Thabo Mbeki, Maamer Al Gadaafi and Robert Gabriel Mugabi, Saeed Barri, Paul Kagame, Omar Al Bashir. But stooges who dance to the tune of the West such as Meles Zenawi, Kaguta Museveni, Hosni Mubarak, Idris Deby, Omar Bongo, Paul Biya, Yaya Jame among others get away with every bit of abuse. What a world!
How about this man called Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, what role did he play in the ICC crisis with the Sudan? That is another topic and here we stop.
The author is based in Juba, Southern Sudan
Nile
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
Isaiah, you’re running your big mouth for no reason what did your so called African leaders do stop Bashir from killing innocent people? it’s better for ICC to solve this problem since African leaders have failed to do their parts.
Akol Liai Mager
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
The point this article carried reminded me a necdote of a nineteen centuary Indian’s Film. In that Very film, a hero ordered people probably his enemies to line-up, call and killed them each one at a time. One of his Servants got on the line and was just next to two people on the death line when a hero’s daughter seen him and shout, “Dad! Don’t! that’s our servant” she then went and grabed the servant out on the death row.
My dear author and readers here is the point;
1. Justice [Call it ICC if you like] is the “Hero”
2. People lined up or enemies are “NIF criminals”
3. Voice that supports justice is “Hero’s daughter”
4. Voice that support defies ICC is the “Servant”
I believe, Sudanese people are more intelligent than that of a Hero’s daughter.
Angelo M
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
Brother Abraham, I don’t know how many honest Sudanese would agree with your ideas. You started your long passage as if you embodied a high vision, but then cancelled it with your defense of a criminal – Bashir. What does that make you? Think about it.
Your article can only infuriates those who had suffered from Bashir’s reign of terror for the last two decades. I almost felt like saying that you must be one of his secret agents, but I would mostly likely not believe that. You are just a southerner afraid of CPA failure. But remember CPA was designed to stand alone, not on John Garang or Omer Bashir. If CPA fails simply on account of the indictment, then it would have fail in other ways also. Your view is therefore contrary and even enraging for many on ground.
Angelo M
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
By the way, as to “when” Bashir will be arrested, that’s a little matter. Remember Mislovic of Yugoslav, the culprit can wander around for even 10 yrs but will ultimately be caught. Don’t about when or how. It is somebody’s else work.
Nakedu Mura
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
isaiah,
you proved that you don’t know what you talking/writing about.
the failure of Iraq by saddam Hussein, the continuous instabilities in the Middle East countries,[ at the moment middel East is boiling up ready to explode at any time],the failure of sudan itself by successive ARab rigems have proved that Arab rigems or Arab governments are irrelevant and incapable of managing the nations they are leading.they have failed the whole world and are hinderance to progress and development in the world.the threats to international peace,justice and stability is posed by them through production of too much Terrorism,Extremism,Fundamentalism and all.in this era therefore,they is need for thorough reforms and flexibility to change by these regimes,otherwise the worl won’t experience any peace at all.the cuurrent arab system need to be replaced with a viable system-DEMOCRACY
Rai Kombe
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
Oh, Ibrahim you are either in planet mars or somewhere out of this universe to put Bashir in the ranks of Mandela and Nkrumah.
The widows and orphans will bell the cat. His crime will chase him through time and space. Justice is his fate. Ask anyone in Juba (assuming you have been there at all) and they will tell you their joy at the ICC decision. the jigs and empty slogans can’t save Omar. He has to face justice. He is the commander in chief under whose command the slaughter and plunder occurred in Darfur, Eastern Sudan, southern Sudan and in the ghost house. Let him shut the coutry from the watch of the world, slaughter the innocent in Sudan but one day….one day, justice will catch up with him.
Ibrahim, you want someone to blame? Don’t look far. You have him. They need him at the Hague. Long live Sudan.
Rai Kombe
Ring, Ring
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
Isaiah: First, I would like to say that I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on this great website of SudanTribune! However, for the purpose of dialogue, I have found the following points in your article to be very interesting, misleading, or even illogical:
1. I am a bit confused as to what your true beliefs and convictions are. You sounded nationalist in the beginning of your article when wrote, referring to the ICC arrest warrant, “…our country has been embarrassed, abused and humiliated by non other than the so-called super power- the force behind the ICC reckless ruling.” However, in a split second, you turn around and throw in these divisive thoughtless questions in the following paragraph: You wrote: “….who connects Darfur problem with that of the South? What relationship does Darfur issue has with that of the Southern Sudan? We are two different entities with different problems.” Are you kidding? Aren’t we citizens of the same country that you intend to defend by writing this article? Could you please define what you meant by “different entities”? I found that statement to be unpatriotic and divisive.
2. You also wrote this in another paragraph: “Those who question the West and neo-colonialism in this continent are either sidelined, ignored or killed” and you listed among other African leaders: Patrick Lumumba,…..John Garang,…. Omar Al Bashir….etc” Isaiah: This was the first time that I have ever seen someone intentionally portraying a freedom fighter (John Grarang) and his oppressor (Omar Al-Bashir) as having the same vision or were in the same league. What an ironic sense of judgment! It was just like saying a perpetrator and a victim are the same…. Or the Janjaweed militiamen are no different than their female victims whom they rapped! Believe me, it was just as bazaar as for one to say: truth and false, evil and good are all the same. Are you kidding?
3. You were dead wrong again when you wrote, “you can’t apply justice before peace or apply justice just out of nowhere”. My countryman: You have terribly confused the duty of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with that of the UN Security Council. The ICC is a court. And as you may well know, courts are not mandated to bring peace. Courts are established to bring JUSTICE to the likes of Omar Al-Bashir. Furthermore, justice and peace do not need to be set in order. In other words, justice should never be delayed on the ground that peace must be realized first. Remember the old saying: “Justice delayed is justice denied”.
4. You also wrote: “the powerful nation on earth has never known Sudanese way of doing things and am afraid they will learned a bitter lesson in this case of Al Bashir”. I found this statement to be very confusing to me. Which powerful nations are you referring to? And why wouldn’t you name that nation? Don’t you think your readers deserve to know what you are talking about? If you do not wish to be understood, what’s point of writing? Finally: where do you derive the authority to speak on behalf of all Sudanese? It’s inappropriate and uncivil to speak for others to whom you have no authority.
5. Finally, on a positive note, I am impressed with your writing skills. However, some of your ideas and arguments do not measure up. They tend to fall short or even sound dubious and malicious sometime! The more I read you articles, the more I become convinced that I you are disguising your true identity by dubiously stating something you do not believe in. I do not blame you if you are doing your job working for someone. Anyone in your position may sound just as illogic. I am not sure if that would be the right job for a seemingly brilliant person like you. My advise to you is: Do not make your life a joke!
Ringdit
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Rai Kombe
So the ICC arrrest warrant, who’s going to belled the ‘cat’?
Brother Isaiah,
the cat has been belled. Now he needs to face the full force of justice. Time will not make the path of justice be decayed. He can continue misusing the (especially) young men of Sudan to harass and terrosise citizens and keep off the international eyes under the guise of sovereignity. But that will not last. The fact is that Bashir must be a guest of the Hague ICC like any other criminal.
I sympathise with you since you are on hire to buy sympathy for president Bashir through some lopsided arguments. That won’t help. Advise him wisely to stop chest-thumping, surrender to justice and prove his innocence (which I doubt he can).
Rai