Sudan: Send the Khartoum Killers to the Hague As a Rapid Response to Crisis

opinion

The leopard will, if given half a chance, try to erase its spots, and pretend it is a gazelle. But that trick will not last long, and the other members of the animal kingdom will very soon discover that the spots were simply painted over to show a single-colour coat of a more benign quadruped.

That is what happens every time we see dictators and their acolytes grabbing power and assuring everyone who is sufficiently naïve to believe that they are doing what they are doing to "save the nation" from this or that other calamity, and that they will relinquish power "as soon as the situation stabilises."

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