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Don't pussyfoot with Bashir, face reality
Posted Monday, September 6 2010 at 15:23
Finally, let us be clear about one fundamental truth. Pandering to injustice will never bring us peace and security — for ourselves or for our neighbours in Sudan.
Our government should apologise to us. It should apologise to the Sudanese, particularly the Darfuris.
It should then make clear, as other African states have done, regardless of the AU decision, that the Sudanese president will be arrested if he shows up here again.
And it should prepare for what it will inevitably have to address post the referendum in Sudan. The South wants to secede. It will.
The North is unlikely to let it go. Let us get ready for what that means instead of pussyfooting around a man who should be facing the full force of the law.
L. Muthoni Wanyeki is executive director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission
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Africans should have their own home grown solutions. International bodies with mandate from West have chosen to relegate the AU as a nonentity. The war atrocities of Tony Blair and George Bush are none issues before the UN. Muthoni, remember how you tried in vain to get Britain to at least own up about their human rights abuses during the Mau Mau in the 1950? Be wary of the West
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Ms. Wanyeki let us be clear the AU is a recognized international body to which Kenya and Sudan belong. The so called international community you refer to which is led by white men stood by as Christians were slaughtered in Southern Sudan. It did nothing during the Rwanda genocide and continues to do nothing as Somalia descends into the abyss. Why should we listen to the ICC when the UNSC will not listen to the AU?
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