Financial Times: Has Bashir’s Trial Failed To Silence Calls For Justice?

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The FT has published an article titled “The Bashir Trial Fails to Silence Advocates for Justice,” in which it talks about the trial of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and the views of the Sudanese street on that.

In his article, written by Tom Robinson, President Bashir, who managed to avoid standing before the International Criminal Court for genocide in 2010 against the people of Darfur, is now standing before a court in one of the countries of East Africa (Sudan), which Ruled for nearly three decades.

The writer pointed out that the appearance of Bashir in court is a decisive moment and fate for millions of Sudanese who demonstrated for months to end the rule of Bashir and the military.

“People watching Bashir in the dock breaks the long stereotypes that people are accustomed to, and makes them feel that Bashir’s era is over,” Wasel Ali, a former editor of Sudan’s Menbar newspaper, was quoted as saying.

Despite the symbolism of Bashir appearing in court, many fear that the courts will not achieve the justice they dream of. “Bashir is only prosecuted for money laundering and for illegally charging money from countries, but we don’t think this is the only crime he committed,” says Amjad Farid, a member of the Sudanese Professionals’ Association.

“Watching Bashir on trial on corruption charges makes me doubt that the government is not serious about trying him for the real crimes he committed,” said Major General Ahmed Ali Mohammed, a member of the team investigating Bashir.

The problem is that the agreement signed last week requires power-sharing in the next three and a half years between the leaders of the demonstrations and the military council, which is part of the former Bashir regime, and its leaders are loyal to Bashir, some of whom are involved in the violence.