Protecting Aid Groups with Trade Deals

Published April 8, 2009

When an arrest warrant for war crimes was issued last month against Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the Sudanese president thought it a good idea to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Darfur by evicting 13 international aid organizations, along with several local counterparts.

Give the man his due. He doesn't go in for eleventh-hour PR makeovers designed to sway public opinion, or the International Criminal...