Home > Al-Bashir Indictment: The ICC is Hypocritical
by Amengeo Amengeo
On Wednesday March 3, 2009, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al - Bashir, the President of Sudan, Africa’s largest country. This in itself is not amazing given the zeal and selectivity with which the West has pursued and dragged Africans to court on various charges of genocide, recruiting child soldiers and rape, among others. What is amazing, however, is the timidity with which African leaders have accepted this wholesale criminalizing of the African people and their leaders..