'The Sudanese government'

I have been watching last night's television documentary on the Darfur/Chad tragedy, with further evidence that 'the Sudanese government' is supporting the Janjaweed (whom it sometimes claims it cannot control) with airstrikes, heavy artillery etc. It always strikes me as strange that such reports always refer to the 'Sudanese government' and hardly ever name the Sudanese dictator, Omar Hasan Ahmed al-Bashir. It is as if one had never referred to the crimes of Saddam Hussein, but only to those of the then 'Iraqi government'. What, I wonder, has given al-Bashir this cloak of relatively anonymity in our media? For the genocidal misery he has inflicted upon his people for years, he should be every bit as much a candidate for the Hague tribunal as the likes of Slobodan Milosevic.