Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary: Bashir is gone, but Army?

Former Sudan President Omar al-Bashir looks on during The India-Africa Summit in New Delhi on January 2, 2014. PHOTO | PRAKASH SINGH | AFP

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir—because that is his full name—could now be expected to be weighing his chances of ending up before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Now that he no longer has the protection of the state of which he was chief for three decades, he must now be feeling quite naked, and vulnerable.