SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Associated Press - Darfur justice could prove elusive despite al-Bashir's fall

22/4/19: Associated Press – Darfur justice could prove elusive despite al-Bashir’s fall, by Fay Abuelgasim and Joseph Krauss

Fay Abuelgasim and Joseph Krauss highlight how demands for Omar Al Bashir to face justice for war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are complicated by Sudan's democratisation process.

 Sudan expert Alex de Waal argued that the ICC case "delayed Sudanese democratisation by 10 years because Bashir could not safely step-down, and it shouldn't do any further damage to Sudanese democratisation."

 Abuelgasim and Krauss note that members of the transitional military council complicit in the war crimes "may conclude, like al-Bashir, that their only way of avoiding [ICC] detention... is to cling to power."

 Thus, two Sudanese activists, Amal Al Zein and a senior Sudanese Professionals Association member Mohammed Al Assam, are both keen for Al Bashir to be tried in Sudan.