"Will Africa Let Sudan Off the Hook?" - OpEd in NYT by Desmond Tutu

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/opinion/03tutu.html

" THE expected issuance of an arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan by the International Criminal Court tomorrow presents a stark choice for African leaders — are they on the side of justice or on the side of injustice? Are they on the side of the victim or the oppressor? The choice is clear but the answer so far from many African leaders has been shameful.

Because the victims in Sudan are African, African leaders should be the staunchest supporters of efforts to see perpetrators brought to account. Yet rather than stand by those who have suffered in Darfur, African leaders have so far rallied behind the man responsible for turning that corner of Africa into a graveyard."

In response to news last July that Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the court’s chief prosecutor, was seeking an arrest warrant for President Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the African Union issued a communiqué to the United Nations Security Council asking it to suspend the court’s proceedings. Rather than condemn the genocide in Darfur, the organization chose to underscore its concern that African leaders are being unfairly singled out and to support President Bashir’s effort to delay court proceedings."

"It’s worth remembering that more than 20 African countries were among the founders of the International Criminal Court, and of the 108 nations that joined the court, 30 are in Africa. That the court’s four active investigations are all in Africa is not because of prosecutorial prejudice — it is because three of the countries involved (Central African Republic, Congo and Uganda) themselves requested that the prosecutor intervene. Only the Darfur case was referred to the prosecutor by the Security Council. The prosecutor on his own initiative is considering investigations in Afghanistan, Colombia and Georgia."

President Bashir needs to be brought to justice, and the Darfur nightmare brought to an end.

Those are the kinds of cases that are turned in to the tv media and their attorneys turn it in to the Attorney General and then that LTC facility is closed and someone from there goes to jail.

First of all get pictures of the black eye. Then be prepared to bring her home and have hospice on call or there watching her, or have help come in to take care of her. Only then call the tv station and your Attorney General (of your state) and advise what you understand has occurred. Then watch the wheels of justice prevail.