OPINION: Toppled in a coup following protracted protests, Sudan President Omar al-Bashir’s abrupt departure from power last week was instantly heralded as the harbinger of spring in the country after 30 years of authoritarian rule and widespread repression of social and religious freedoms.
Wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as “an indirect co-perpetrator” of war crimes and accused of criminal responsibility for the genocide that devastated Darfur between 2003 and 2008, many hoped he might now face justice, that a real "Arab Spring" had finally sprung.
