People who enforce laws, putting others on trial, should themselves be men and women of pure morality.

Hague International prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who demands that Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir answer genocide charges, ought to remind himself what sort of person he himself is.

For only two years ago this prosecutor was embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal involving a lady journalist from South Africa. He even discharged one of his team who had filed a report against him. This was fully exposed in The Telegraph.

I am not here to defend President Al Bashir, but to question and argue how an immoral man can claim to be supreme human rights arbiter.

The true story of Sudan's civil war cannot be understood by politically-motivated institutions. For if this were to become the norm, even former president Abraham Lincoln would have been in the dock for unifying the United States, because the southern states had the right to ask for the same.

And if Moreno-Ocampo really is a human rights disciple, what about former US president George Bush? More than 269 war crimes have been fully documented by American writer Michael Hass in his book George W Bush War Criminal, which describes in detail tragedies and atrocities committed by Bush's henchmen, especially following lies perpetrated over Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction.

The book discusses the legality of this war, the use of prohibited weapons, misconduct by American soldiers and commanders, violations of standards of decency, barbaric interrogation methods, unbearable living conditions for prisoners, the absence of justice, discrimination and so on... In total 269 war crimes!

Bear in mind that this was not written by Iraqis or Afghans, but by a fellow American accusing his former president.

Where is the International Criminal Court to force Bush and his administration to face the consequences?

Millions of Iraqis and Afghans have lost their lives thanks to America's invasions, and another few millions have been displaced from their homes, becoming refugees. Yet we hear not a single objection from the so-called International Criminal Court.

Is this justice of the powerful against the powerless? Or is it because now they wish to do the same thing to Sudan as they did to Afghanistan and Iraq, given its visible oil wealth?

Or is it because Sudan granted franchises and contracts to the Chinese government, not to the infamous Western Seven Sisters blood-gold cartel?

Or are we to believe that this threatening new tool will now be used against any state whether republic or monarchy, daring to ask for its rights?

The United Nations claims that more than 300,000 people have died since the conflict broke out in Sudan. What about the millions of Iraqis and Afghans? Not to mention those poor Palestinians who perished only a few weeks ago when the entire Gaza Strip was annihilated by Israel?

Again, I'm not here to defend President Al Bashir, but if he has to answer questions, let Bush also be one of the first to do so.

Moreno-Ocampo, the international community should put you personally on trial for completely ignoring the above facts, because men like you, whose conscience seems dead, are the main catalysts for killings and destruction in the world.

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