₦airaland Forum

South African court has criticised the
government for letting Sudan's President
Omar al-Bashir leave the country despite an
International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
The court asked the public prosecutor to investigate
if the government had broken the law.
Mr Bashir denies the ICC charge he committed war
crimes in Darfur.
A court had ordered him to stay in South Africa while
it ruled whether he could be arrested.
He had gone to South Africa for an African Union
summit and the government argued he enjoyed
diplomatic immunity.
He left the summit early, before the court could rule
on this issue.
The BBC's Nomsa Maseko in Pretoria says that
Judge Dunstan Mlambo suggested there was reason
to believe that the South African government had
committed a crime by ignoring the court order.
The judge's three questions:
1. How was it possible that President al-Bashir
would, with his whole entourage, travel to the
airbase without the respondents knowledge?
2. How was it possible that the Sudanese plane
would take off from the airbase without the
respondents knowing whether President Bashir
was on board?
3. How would that plane be able to land in Sudan
by late afternoon if it had not departed at about
noon that same day?
He gave the government 24 hours to explain why
and how Mr Bashir was allowed to leave the country.
The judge explained that the wider consequences
could be huge - saying the state cannot function if it
ignores court orders.
"If the state... does not abide by court orders, the
democratic edifice will crumble stone-by-stone until
it collapses," he said.
Source.bbc.co.uk.

I am taking this as a Joke.

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R.abbish South African with an HIV AiDS president

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