Sudan

"The minds of brilliant and misguided men and women devise the law but the mood of the masses will challenge it good or poor!"
Cheryllyn Dudley 

Sudan's President Bashir has opted to apply for a U.S. visa to travel to the U.N. General Assembly in New York with an international arrest warrant for war crimes still hanging over his head.

ACDP MP and Int Relations PC Member Cheryllyn Dudley commenting on the fact that the US is not a member of the Hague-based ICC and not legally bound to hand the president over pointed out that:

"Washington has led calls for Bashir to face international justice though, and has transferred ICC suspects before".

"Sudan simply dismisses the ICC charges of course, and claims reports of mass killings in Darfur have been exaggerated", Dudley said

 "The visa challenge itself coincides  with growing hostility to an ICC perceived by some to be targeting African leaders - all in all - a serious game of poker going down!"

A picture I took some years ago while in Sudan