About two weeks or so separated the death of the famous Sudanese novelist al-Tayyib al-Salih and the charges of war crimes made against the Sudanese president 'Umar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.
Since Clinton's bombing of Al-Shifa pharmaceutical company in 1998, Sudan went under the American media radar to re-emerge with the problems in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first acting head of state to be charged by the ICC for war crimes. Is this a progress for international justice to be celebrated or a precedent that will be regretted even by the people who pushed so hard for it?
