Sudan's president urged to surrender to war crimes court for Darfur atrocities

I was relating in present tense. And I agree with you. We always say never again and then...

THE forgotten genocide? I don't know, we've been really good at ignoring other genocides in the past.

What did we do then? Pledge we would never turn a blind eye again. Whoops.

Urge? Man snatch his azz up and build new jails on top of this rat.

'Tis life.

What isn't falling apart is actively being destroyed.

Weren't we there way back when? Oh, yeah, it was the Clinton years. Doesn't really matter. Are we ringing our hands now? Seems to me slick Billy turned his back on the Rwandan Genocide as well. Hell, let's make his wife secretary of state. You think? Cry your tears and bury your sons and daughters. This goes on every day. And to the politicians who send others to do their wet work, may there be a Hell.

Captain Bruce
Class of '67 In Country

This is when assassinnation comes in play.

In hope he rots in prison.

Actually, the Sudan is rich in oil and uranium. Did you know that the Chinese have even set up schools in Sudan to teach Chinese to the native people? Is this the new colonialism we are seeing? And they say it is because they wish to help Sudan reap the benefits of the oil... it doesn't look like those benefits are getting to those who need it.

When I think of how the Chinese govt has provided weapons that went to the Janjaweed to murder and displace innocent people my blood boils. How can they possibly think to tell the world their aims are altruistic? Africa is under a bombardment from China and the US in a race to compete for their resources. That is what Somalia is really all about to the US as well and why the US has ships off their coast along with, yes, China. It's all about the pipelines. Peak Oil is bringing out their desperation.

Jan,
Did...thanks for reminding me.

If there was as much money to be made in solar and wind, rich countries would probably try and take over poorer countries in desert areas where solar and wind would proliferate.

(I guess I'm feeling a bit more sceptical today than normal)

The Chinese defend Bashir and believe his arrest by the ICC will be "postponed." They want him free to keep giving them access to oil. They are no better than this govt was in the eighties when it supported Saddam Hussein in Iraq and shook his hand when he served their purposes.There is something terribly wrong with humanity when oil takes precedence over human lives. And to bring that full circle, this is another reason why we need solar energy in the world. It's all about the money.

Brian talks of how the women and children bear the brunt of the fighting.
Maybe the world should be turned over to the women and children, to rule.
In some places they sure as hell couldn't do any worse.

This video brought tears to my eyes. As any from Darfur do.
Unfortunately, even if President Omar Hassan al-Bashir resigns, the genocide will still continue.
Hassan al-Turabi is worried only about sanctions from other countries.
If what Brian, from the video says, it is the Arab presence, nomads, verses the farmers, Africans, that is the problem and al-Turabi is an Islamist leader.
I agree it should get much much more press.
But the media doens't care because it's too far away and it really doesn't affect any ethnicity but those that live there.
And since there isn't any oil to be had, or a strong Christian coalition yelling for it to stop, it won't.

That prick show be thrown in the pen FOR LIFE.

From the article:

Bashir and leading members of his dominant National Congress Party have repeatedly said they will not deal with the global court, dismissing it part of a Western conspiracy.

Even Turabi's party initially suggested a Sudanese version of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission would be a better way of bringing justice to Darfur.

But Turabi said on Monday Bashir should take personal responsibility for atrocities and war crimes carried out in almost six years of fighting in Sudan's west.

"Politically we think he is culpable. He is responsible for all the crimes. In politics, whatever happens below a minister, for example, he will have to resign for it and assume responsibility.

"And he should assume responsibility for whatever is happening in Darfur -- displacement, the burning of all the villages, systematic rapes."

Turabi said he could not comment on whether Bashir had personally orchestrated war crimes in Darfur -- just that the president should take political responsibility for atrocities carried out under his leadership.

The influential opposition leader added he did not expect Bashir to take his advice.

"Probably the government will not hand him over ... He will not surrender himself to save his country or to go and prove he is not guilty."

International experts say 200,000 have died and 2.5 million been forced from their homes since mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against Sudan's government in 2003, accusing Khartoum of neglect.

Sudan's government, which mobilized mostly Arab militias to crush the revolt, denies activists' accusations that genocide took place during the counter-insurgency.