SA WAS the first African nation to sign the Rome Statute, the international agreement between states to prosecute and sentence those responsible for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.The democratic SA had always prided itself on being a good global citizen, up there with the best when it came to safeguarding human rights and enforcing the laws designed to do that.The Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling on the Omar al-Bashir case will, we trust, provide the basis for SA to regain that gloss, which was badly chipped when government officials sneaked the Sudanese president through Waterkloof air base and out of SA last year in defiance of SA’s own legislation.That SA broke its own laws is what the Supreme Court of Appeal has now confirmed, dismissing the appeal by the government, which had argued that it was not required to arrest Mr Bashir for alleged war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity related to the Darfur conflict, even though the International Criminal Cou...
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