Sudan Leader Wanted for Genocide Eludes Capture

Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, head of one of the most militant Islamic states in the world, has escaped arrest in South Africa.

The Sudanese president was indicted in 2009 for committing crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against him.

So far, however, the Sudanese president has remained elusive and careful about traveling outside of Sudan.

This weekend, he was in South Africa attending an African Union summit.

Before arriving in the country, he received assurances from the South African government that he wouldn't face arrest. But on Sunday a South African judge ordered that Bashir not be allowed to leave the country.

The ruling drew outrage from the Sudanese government.

"This court's decision does not have legal value," Sudan Foreign Affairs Minister Kamal Ismail charged. "South Africa issued in the public gazette 10 days ago the decision of the African Union that African countries are not bound to any decision by the court."

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said the authority of the ICC must be respected and Bashir must be arrested.

Despite pressure from the U.N. leader, the South African government ignored its own court's order and allowed Bashir to leave.

Nonetheless, the Sudanese president is still a wanted man for causing the deaths of 300,000 of his own countrymen in Darfur and the displacement of at least 2 million people.

He's also killed Christians, closed churches, and waged jihad on them in South Sudan for more than 20 years.

Although South Sudan is now an independent state, Bashir still uses his influence to manipulate and control the people there.

Bashir is also aggressively spreading militant Islam throughout Africa, and he continues to wage war and bomb innocent civilians in Sudan's Nuba Mountains.