Persona Non Grata
by paco on 03 May 2010 | Comments
As predicted by Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for sitting President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir, a national leader being the target of an arrest warrant will have an isolating effect. As recounted in this New York Times article by Marlise Simons, world leaders are assiduously avoiding al-Bashir at official meetings, making him a “persona non grata” on the international diplomatic scene. This is welcome news, and beyond isolating him will surely eventually weaken his hold on power in Sudan. As ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo says at the end of documentary film “The Reckoning”, “someday there will be justice.” And as the Prosecutor has also often said, al-Bashir’s destiny is to end up at The Hague.http://ijcentral.org/images/uploads/Bashir_alone.jpg
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Persona Non Grata