On March 31, 2005 the United Nations Security Council adopted its resolution No 1593 (2005) that refers the situation in Darfur since 1 July 2002 to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The resolution guaranteed the USA that its nationals working in Sudan would not be handed over to the same court or any other country's court, if they commit crimes of international concern in Sudan. The resolution, which was received by organized silence from the side of the main stream international media, is expected to remove the issue of Darfur from international stage after that play card has exhausted its purpose in the fierce international power struggle. Now, rebel leaders, who were banking on keeping the sufferings of the people in Darfur in limbo for maximum political gains, would face difficulties in sourcing funds to finance their military activities in the region. From the other side, the Government has very little chances not to comply with UN resolution. Despite UN's decision, this historic resolution remains one of the most controversial resolutions taken by the UN in the recent times. Francis Fukuyama's model of 'End of History' reads: "We may be witnessing the end of history as such that: that is the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government," and "The future will be devoted to not great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems."
The ICC is one of the products of the euphoria of the 'end of history' and universalisation of international justice (which is another name for Western value system) following the collapse of Berlin Wall. Under that fever, the advocates of the ICC thought that this legal instrument would be granted immunity against political manipulation and would be operated based on the basic fundamentals and operative norms of justice and rule of law such as; no one is above the law and 'human beings are equal before the law'.
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