When the International Criminal Court issued its arrest warrant for Sudan’s president on Wednesday, an 8-year-old boy named Bakit Musa would have clapped — if only he still had hands.
Bakit found a grenade left behind by proxy forces of Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, sent into neighboring Chad to terrorize Darfur refugees. The grenade exploded, taking both of Bakit's hands, one eye and the skin on half of his face.
Bakit is one more casualty of President Bashir's brutality against the people of Darfur. The arrest warrant issued by the ICC is a first step, although a small one, toward holding Bashir accountable for his crimes.
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