I Have A Snow Mountain In Cameroon To Sell to the ICC

The title of this post is my response to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it really believed that the South African government would arrest Sudan's dictator, Omar el Bashir, and hand him over to be prosecuted in the Hague. Given that many African countries, under the banner of the AU, have seen the court as an imperialist project, it would be delusional to think that South Africa, which is struggling to find its African identity, would hand one of Africa's own to this project. To prove that it is really African, the South African government has taken to supporting dictatorships in Africa.

In order to fool the ICC that it would hand over Bashir, the South African government first said that it was sure Omar Bashir would remain in the country to the end of the African Union summit which he was attending (the summit ends today). Then later it said that it cannot be sure that its security officers at the airport would be able to keep Mr. Bashir in the country because its airport security has a history of letting go people who have been ordered not to leave the country. Then today we were told that Mr. Bashir has made a narrow escape. In the end, the blame should be that of the South African airport officials rather than that of the South African government. If the ICC buys this story, I have a snow mountain in Cameroon to sell them. It goes for fifteen dollars! What a deal!