South Sudan: To Spoilers of Peace in South Sudan - Your Day to Face Justice, Like Al Bashir's, Is Coming

opinion

I remember vividly the day the United Nations Security Council decided to refer the situation in Sudan's Darfur to the International Criminal Court in March 2005. From my position as among the first judges to be elected to serve on the world's young criminal court, it felt like history was in the making.

Fifteen years later, I see the recent decision from the government of Sudan to allow former President Omar al-Bashir to stand trial in front of the International Criminal Court as proof that the arc of history is long and bends towards justice.

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