The International Criminal Court has finally charged the Sudanese president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, with war crimes after years of outrageous acts of mass violence against the people of Darfur. Over 300,000 people have died in Darfur in 5 years and more than 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes and forced to flee to other countries or refuge camps.
Yet in spite of all of this, the Sudanese government refuses to cooperate with the ICC, claiming that they will not allow their president to be held on trial because it is an invasion of their sovereignty. My opinion is that if a government is willing to violate the sovereignty of millions of its own people over their own lives, they have no right to deny justice being brought to their leaders. But through corruption, racism, and censorship, the people of Sudan will be delayed justice yet again.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/04/sudan.president.darfur.charges/index.html
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