Jacob Zuma's 'War and Peace' Approach to South Africa's Foreign Policy

The astonishing aspect to the diplomatic debacle involving Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is not that this genocidal maniac was allowed to leave South Africa. It was that he was allowed to come here in the first place. Al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur conflict. Already more than 300 000 people have been killed, with another 2.5 million displaced. This means war criminals are allowed in the country but Nobel Peace laureates such as Dalai Lama aren't. China is South Africa's single largest trading partner so President sucks up to China by denying the Dalai Lama an entry visa to attend a Cape Town gathering of Nobel Peace laureates. It is difficult to discern the morality behind not permitting the pacifist Dalai Lama , while allowing a murderous despot facing an international arrest warrant to attend an AU summit in Joburg.

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