The assembled group of about 700 protesters (down from 2,000 to 3,000 because of the looming fear of arrest) was entirely peaceful, well-dressed, and respectful.
Nick Grono, deputy president of the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organization, said that with an arrest warrant looming, Mr. Bashir might feel compelled to show "credible moves towards peace" in the hope of persuading the Security Council to suspend court action.
As Swiss and US authorities gave a joint update on their parallel investigations into what has been called "a World Cup of fraud", the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, said a new wave of arrests is looming.
But, with Minute Men making arrests and the concentration camp looming, to be "in" things now carries life-and-death risk.
The threat of arrest always looms.
This has been in part due to the looming presence of the military, even after its power diminished with General Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998.
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