irrational because newcolonialisim ovrewhelmed whole world with sorrow we want all of them to be judjed faithfully

The AU should intervene and not allow the new form of colonialism take root in africa.Which president is next?

Bashir is heartless butcher who turns against the people he supposes to protect as their leader; this is the 21st century where tyrannies need to end. This is a good sign for ICC leadership to standup for justice for all. Bashir must face the wound he has ignored far too long A man is born to respect others not depose them as beasts to earn respect to their personal misery.

MUGABE

This is a precedent seing move by the US and its allies to use the Internatonal criminal court to eliminate the black African countries targeted for the control and pillaging of their natural resources. As pointed out by Inter Press Services (Johannesburg) of Feb. 27, 2008, the civil wars and killings in Sudan was organized and constantly backed by the US that funneled nearly $20m worth of military equipment through Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda to the opposition to overthrow the government of President Omar al-Bashir. The goal of the US is to split Sudan as the US did in Ethiopia so that the Southern Sudan can be free for the US to colonize and PLUNDER THE NATURAL RESOURCES. In Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir cannot be accused of building weapons of mass destruction but by organizing and backing civil war in the Sudan, the US has found a creative way of using the ICC to black-mail President Omar al-Bashir. The next in line of black African leaders to be accused by the ICC will be Mugabe. If Africans do not show the world that this SMART TRICK that could ultimately lead to the desteruction of Africa WILL BE RESISTED, the black Africa is DOOMED!

Mr or Ms "gishola", I don't know where you are coming from! You talk about Black Africa. Read the fine prints. President Omar al-Bashir doesn't regard himself as a black African. He sees himself as an Arab. He's engaged in ethnic cleansing against indigenous black Africans who live in Darfur. It has become normal to blame the United States and President Bush for every crisis. The ICC move is NOT indictment against a black African leader as you would want us believe, but rather indictment on a man engaged in ethnic cleansing and marginalization against black Africans. Get back to the roots of the Darfur crisis and stop your US bashing!

TO Gishola: Who has washed your brain with western and US conspiracy that you talk like that ? You should go either back to the school or visit doctor !!! US is not even member country of ICC !!! Have you ever been in Sudan or have you met Sudanese ? I am working in International Organisation for migration in Bangkok and I see Sudanese refugees every single week and I heard their stories. Facts: 2 milions people died in civil war, 300 000 in last 5 years, 5 mil. refugees in the country where Al-Bashir is president for almost 20 years. And pls. let me remind you he goes of black Africans living in the south. As somebody noted he doesn´t recognize himself as black African. He deserves to face his crimes along with many of your other dictators as Mugabe,Obiang etc. Thanks butcher Charles Taylor is already there.

it seems you have all the answers. Now take this information to the fearles leaders and let them move forward with a plan that does not call for assistance from any Western or European allies. It seems that the Africans leaders are just as selfish and greedy as anybody else. the everyday person in Africa has no real voice. In America a person can have a say by voting or speaking out aganist things they do not like. This is done without fear. Yes America has problems but nothing compared to the African situation. When you read about certain countries in Africa it just make on think what's really going on there. After a while one becomes indifferent to the problems because there is no real change with the elected African leaders. Yes there are leaders who need to be brought to justice. In America there are no mass killings, rapes and other crimes like in Sudan and other countries who have rouge leaders. So instead of placing blame clean up your own country. When you point your finger out turn it around and start with the self.

The Gatekeeper

Following this multi-year episode of violence causes all of us to feel anxious. Thousands of innocents continue to suffer under this failed regime. Some who have witnessed these proceedings want not to see any connections between the radical regime of President Omar al-Bashir and the tragedy of innocents in Sudan. To allow any further decrease of human rights status of Sudanese minority ethnic groups without legal instruments suggests dysfunction has no natural or legal limits. Focusing on the motives of other states (the West) only explains the degree of threat toward other innocents. The "hysterie" of codependent behaviour models results in collaboration with non-trustworthy conspirators.

Once again, the West try to show black and african people that they control us and can divide us, but this time they will fail. Colonialism era is past. Black people in the world are getting more and more aware of our situation. None of those people(ICC,UN or Western Country)cared of the rwandan genocide, Congo(5Millions dead), Apartheid, and so on. Now they try to make us think that they will do justice. We black people are not so stupid. What a cursed people! Always trying to divid people, create war, coup, famine, showing on TV that they save black people dying of diseases and so on. Enough is enough

So your saying all the innocent people are dying and that somehow George Bush killed them.. Are you justifying their death with stupidity. Are you telling us just let the killing continue. Remember there are blacks in america and one is about to become president.

If you kill innocents they will be at the side of God (Allah)the day of your judgement.

I have noticed that on AllAfrica regardless topic US, Bush and colonialism must be blame all the times (never yourselves, interesting...). But actually many, maybe even somewhere most of the African would like to leave their country ASAP and go to US. When in Africa I am asked about 3times a day if I could help them to go there. Can pls. some African explain me this funny paradox? Other thing you do not make differences between ,,official state policy“ ,,normal people and not even talk about ,,individuals“, what is wrong. A collective guilt does not exist!!! Actually many Americans hate Bush so much...but you probably don not have any idea of that. I am from Czech Republic. During Second War World Germans killed almost 300 000 Czech people (you would use term my brothers and sisters). But do I hate or blame Germans for that? Of course not, those who did it are mostly dead by know. Today’s Germans have nothing to do with that. They just were born as Germans, as me Czech, as you African as somebody American. We did not have choice to be born somewhere else. Let me admit something.....yes colonialism destroyed traditional culture in Africa, yes agricultural policy of most western countries is killing Africa now, yes UN and other organisations been helpless as somebody said in Rwanda, DRK, yes western countries make policy depend on double standards and their interests etc. etc. Now is your turn to admit your problems and mistakes which are killing Africa now and try to face them and not to blame somebody else for it (to blame BBC for problems in Zimbabwe that’s just so funny).

This is typical from you Europeans especially from east Europe you know very little about Africa and Africans and you have this old stupid clichés that you are not able to overcome.

You have spoken with three or four you have read comments from three or four and draw immediately your conclusions.

Africans are around 800 million do you think that all of us want to go to Europe.

During the communism period many east Europeans including from your country fled to the west. Is that enough to conclude that all Czech people or even all slavs from east Europe (Polish, Russians, Bulgarian, Serbians, Czechs, Slovaks etc) wanted to flee their country.

So please. If some African that want to go to Europe doesn’t not mean that all want to.

Be careful when you make statements. When you say “Other thing you do not make differences between ,,official state policy“ ,,normal people and not even talk about ,,individuals“, what is wrong” or “Now is your turn to admit your problems and mistakes which are killing Africa now and try to face them and not to blame somebody else for it”

Do not generalize, don’t talk about things you don’t know and don’t understand. We don’t have lessons to receive from anybody less from some ignorant from east Europe

Brother against brother. Sister against Sister. Brother against Sister and vice versa. Waking up early morning, is this all that is in our minds for the sake of wealth? Really?. Where are we heading?. The rest of the World is uniting! When are we going to start with ourselves? I know people in other continents have turned against themselves also, but they have worked that out to their own benefit. We need to look at ourselves. My next post is a poem titled "What did Africa do to deserve all this up to this very day".

We Africans must educate ourselves, especially by reading. We hardly buy magazines to read. How many of us subscribes to magazines, either African ones or not? Very few. Yet we like to talk so much and have so little information and knowledge. The chief problem of Africa is ignorance, not among the masses but among the so-called educated class. When one reads some of the views expressed here one will find out how uninformed many of us really are. Al-Bashir considers himself an Arab and the politics of Arab Supremacy in Sudan has been the main cause of the wars in the country since 1956. that is the fact. The Arabs in Sudan, even if their skin is dark, are very hostile to sub-Saharan Africans and any little physical feature matters in how you're treated in the Sudanese society. No wonder, someone once described Sudan as the most racist nation on earth. Akeem

We Africans must educate ourselves, especially by reading. We hardly buy magazines to read. How many of us subscribe to magazines, either African ones or not? Very few. Yet we like to talk so much and have so little information and knowledge. The chief problem of Africa is ignorance, not among the masses but among the so-called educated class. Al-Bashir considers himself an Arab and the politics of Arab Supremacy in Sudan has been the main cause of the wars in the country since 1956. that is the fact. The Arabs in Sudan, even if their skin is dark, are very hostile to sub-Saharan Africans and any little physical feature matters in how you're treated in the Sudanese society. No wonder, someone once described Sudan as the most racist nation on earth. Akeem

Arabs has been killing, raping old women and girls in the name of ALLAH for centuries. They continue to this day in the Sudan. What is so evil is that they use their religion to justify their sick demon behaviour. Christians has been killing black Africans for centuries in the name of Jesus Christ. Africa needs leaders who can not be bought. Real leaders, not big belly tyrants. African need to subscribe to self- dependency and stop rely on Western assistance. One day African leaders will Unite. That will be dooms day for the west. Al- Bashir should be dealt with accordingly. He is a demonic big belly tyrant. Allah knows and sees everything.

When will the ICC issue an international warrant of arrest for George Bush for having invaded Iraq on false, fabricated reasons and having caused the death of millions of Iraq's people? Likewise, when will the ICC issue an international warrant of arrest for Bill Clinton and Tony Blaire for having sent the Tutsi-dominated armies of Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda to invade Congo? These Tutsi-dominated armies killed five millions civillians in Congo; they raped women in presence of their parents and brothers; and they burried women alive in mass-graves. All these with the blessings of the governments of USA and European countries that sought to have easy access to Congo's natural resources. Yet the Tutsi-ethnic presidents Paul Kaganme of Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni of Ouganda, and the former president of Burundi are walking freely and freely travelling around the world. For how long will Africa remain indifferent vis-a-vis the neo-colonialist, imperialistic double standards of the Western countries disguised under the so-called UN's institutions? What Africa needs is a revolution. Isn’t-it that it was by revolution that they got rid of colonialism on the continent?

To hell with the asinine allah of the criminal arab invaders; but the rest of your post is 'right on'!

Africans should not get involved in the battle between two destructive forces of evil -- arab-muslim and european-christian. Both are scourges on the Continent of Africa.

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Well.

Africa and the AU (- regardless of the reticence of the white man's client states of Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, ... - ) can be more forceful than that ..

For instance, what stance did the USA take when in the wake of the atrocities committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, some among the EU countries moved to bring up indictments against Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, .. at the ICC?

Africa, you have the critical bargaining chip - your resources.

You are faced with a clear and present danger.

Africa, the danger inherent in your lack of cohesion and your inaction in the face of danger must be clear - especially with regard to the declaration of war on you by foreign plunderers in the virulent form of the imposition of economic sanctions that have devastated one of your members and caused the death of thousands of Africans.

Why aren't you pushing for indictments of the foreigners who have done that to you? [ Burt it is the foreigners' ICC. DO you see the light and the hoodwink?]

Africa, you have a backbone that has been demonstrated again and again in Cleopatra, Nzingha, Yaa Asantewa, Shaka, Lobengula, Nehanda, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Nasser, .....

Use it.

Use it for the survival of your people and the survival of the ancient civilizations of the African Child.

Use it - for our ancestors who were murdered and held in bondage by the multitude - so that you may live free on Mother Africa's bounteous savanna - today and your tomorrows.

" in the wake of the atrocities committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, some ..moved to bring up indictments against Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, .. at the ICC? .."

Consider this,

1) The invasion of Iraq is considered to be a willful act of aggression - that even the UN deplored. Why is the UN NOT bringing up charges against those people mentioned above at the ICC? Why is the UN and its handlers in USA, and EU countries now so shrill about Bashir?

2) It is estimated that as a result of the west's murderous adventurism in Iraq, over a million INNOCENT people have been dislocated or slaughtered in that country - for nothing. Is that number less that what Bashir is accused of - or is there an element of racism expressed in all this?

3) Would Bashir be accused of rapes, tortures and murders that are any more heinous that what the west committed in Iraq?

This is the best thing that has happened in recent African Affairs. There has to be a first to bring to justice these killers who call themselves leaders.

A few more remain, like Mengistu/Meles/Isayas of Ethiopia, Kibeki of Kenya, Mugabe and a few more. Enough is enough and AllAfricans must unite against these killers and bring them to justice. No more Rwanda, end of story.

African

Wake up! Arab world is showing you love and care but they have their own AGENDA! Don't think that Arabs love african...they never did and they will never do! African,stop being naive! Justice is justice! Bashir kills africans in their own country ; Sudan is in Africa not in Middle East... Stop mixting issues, Bashir is a killer and negociation is not an option after 6 years of killing more than 300 000 african (black) in Darfur! African president are on Bashir's side because they know that most of them do the same in secret... God forgive them and Justice catch them!

I think that the UNSC must go ahead with indictement of of Bashir. The AU is a useless organizatin. It is a kind of presidents union and they defend and protect each other because many of them are also criminal. They never tell the thruth to each other. You can call it as you want new form of colonialism etc. but it his the the only way peple from africa can get rid of all these criminals we have as presidents members of government and in the armies.

If the UN did not put Charles taylor in Jail and tranfered him to the Hag for trial it would never be done by AU.

Africa still have a lot of criminals in power that need to be also tried and put in jail fro the rest of their life.

You are wasting your time complaining THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF YOUR AFRICAN LEADERS ALWAYS PROTECTING THOSE THAT SHOULD FACE THE WRATH OF THE PEOPLE

The Arabs & Europeans are TWIN EVILS tormenting Africans for centuries!

If Bashir is an Arab, then Africans should justifiable turn his ass over to the Europeans post haste.

In fact, Africans should have dealt severly with the invading Arab-muslim thieves, rapists murderers, enslavers in Sudan a long time ago.

This idea of African siding with the Arabs over Bashir IS A JOKE! Arabs-muslims are HISTORICAL ENEMIES of Africans!' Arabs stood by and cheer with pride while Africans, for centuries, have been robbed, raped, enslaved and slaughtered in Sudan and across North Africa.

Alert Africans will be seeking every excuse to rid the Continent of Arab-muslim criminal invaders. Bashir should have been seized a long time ago and dealt with severly for his crimes against Africans.

Speak the truth! Why would anyone want to protect this evil man. They enslave black africans to this very day! Why do I not hear a cry from the Muslim world aganist this evil man. Does the Quran allow such behavior, I don't think so. Women and men, children murdered, raped, souls destroyed! Wow to excuse bad behavior from anyone is not an answer. Keep it real! The truth is hard for people to handle but keep speaking the truth! God will bless you.

It is a complete form of ignorance and disrespect to use the word arab-muslim all the time and refer to them as haters who are criminals. this guy who i think is a zimbabwean keeps refering to muslims all sorts of names that he does not even know what they mean or stand for. If you think africa is for black atheist or animist people then think again for long under a tree.!

Arabs are not Africans, they are Arabs. Just like Whites who are not Africans, but whites. These people of colour call us afican american, black what what.. meaning we are not really americans when we are in america or europe or asia. theya re not africans in any way. This Bashir should be errested for his crimes. he killed innocent africans, real africans so that he could islamise them. He must test his soup.

Justice and peace can be split up like a piece of pie! Really?