The Implications of the Libyan Revolution on the Darfuris resident in Libya
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
September 8, 2011 — The Libyan rebels in the city of Benghazi have
disclosed from the outset their prejudice against Africans living and
working in the Libyan soil by alleging that they were supporting
Colonel Muaamar al- Gaddafi’s battalions/brigades as mercenaries. The
Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) Chairman, Mr. Mustafa
Abdul-Jalil, stated that was a decision of individuals and does not
represents the rebel’ formal opinion. Nevertheless, that statement is
unlikely to change the rebels’ attitudes towards dark-skinned people
or those of African origin overnight; given the fact the African Union
(AU) has declined to recognize the Libyan revolution and insisted that
they will only take down the green flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
from the roof top of the headquarters of the African Union in Addis
Ababa on the surrender of the last soldier belonging to Colonel
al-Gaddafi! In the circumstances, many innocent manual working African
residents in Libya are going to suffer atrocities. Incitement of
hatred orchestrated by the propaganda machine of the Government of
Sudan (GoS) against the Sudanese residents in Libya is thought by
political observers as the cause of their ongoing tragedy blighting
them. Darfuris represent the large proportion of them. This is truer
if we take into account the hostile disgraceful attitude of the
National Congress Party (NCP) government of Sudan towards the citizens
of Sudan from Darfur working in Libya in particular. This hate
campaign was spearheaded by the NCP regime’s former leader of the
infamous Popular Defence Forces (PDF) and current Minister of foreign
affairs, Ali Kerti and stirred up by the top spy leader of the
notorious the so-called National Intelligence and Security Services
(NISS), Mohammed Atta who scrambled to Libya for scrounging the Libyan
rebel groups to hunt and eliminate the rest of the Darfuris there. A
credible source said that dozens of Sudanese in Libya have been
affected by the visit of the Sudanese intelligence security services
boss Mohmed Atta to Benghazi and Tripoli few weeks ago and confirmed
that many Sudanese who came to Sudan through al-Owainat were killed by
militias, government forces and security services who been stationed
by the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in those places. The
conspiracies and plots of the government of the regime in Khartoum
against the people from Darfur did not stop but tremendous efforts
were exercised by the elements of the regime to drive a wedge between
the Libyan rebels and the chairman of the Justice and Equality
Movement (JEM) who has been almost virtually in a house arrest for
over a year in Tripoli. According to Sudan Watch that was since
Wednesday the 19th May 2010 when the leader of Darfur’s most powerful
rebel movement was denied entry to Chad, on his way back to join his
troops in the battlefield in Darfur. He had been detained on an
airplane in the Chadian capital N’djamena. The Chairman of the Justice
and Equality Movement (JEM) Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, at the time, had
travelled from Cairo to Tripoli in Libya where he spent a few hours,
then from Libya to Chad. The Chadian security forces destroyed the
passports of Khalil and his entire entourage. The Chadian authorities
removed the ladder from the plane so that Dr. Khalil could not get
out. It was reported that the rebel leader himself told the mass media
that the Chadian authorities ordered him to return to Libya after 19
–hour diplomatic standoff at the airport. The Libyan authorities
accepted to host the JEM leader on conditions including not making any
telephone calls! Observers thought that the Chadian authorities,
apparently, were trying to put pressure on the JEM delegation to go
back to Qatar where the rebel group had suspended its participation in
the Doha Darfur peace talks with the government of Sudan.
Political analysts and independent observers alike categorically
refute any material or significant moral support has offered by the
Colonel Muaamar al-Gaddafi to the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).
When the series of battles and military operations waged by Darfur
rebels against the National Congress Party (NCP) regime there is no
evidence of a presumption of a direct military support from the
Colonel. This is reflected in the type of the weapons used by the
rebel group. They are very basic light machine guns which are
commercially available in the entire Sudan, and the vehicles used by
the rebels are mostly old used-cars and trucks as shown on the TV
screens in the media. As regards to the SUV Four-Wheel- Drive vehicles
are concerned they are either through funding by the Darfurian
businessmen who had sided with the revolution but a large proportion
of those cars were seized by the rebels from Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)
during the battles as war booty. That is why when asked about their
source of funding for the war, the rebels answer: “SAF” which means
the Sudanese Ministry of Defence! The clearest evidence against
falsehood of funding from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the Justice and
Equality Movement and the rest of the Darfur movements is the lack of
movements of anti-aircraft weapons, which makes it possible for the
MiG-29 bombers and Antonov aircrafts to cause destruction of villages
and facilities vital to the people of Darfur.
Experts in the Libyan affairs believe that the hospitality extended by
the Colonel Muammar Gaddafi by hosting Dr. Khalil Ibrahim is only part
of the international and regional conspiracy to limit the role of the
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), which has become resistant to
comply to the orders of others and has been independently taking its
decisions.
It needs no proof to stress the fact that there is no military
presence for JEM in Libya to fight in the ranks of any of the warring
parties in the North African state. JEM believes that what is
happening in Libya is an internal affair of the Libyan people. Based
on this, JEM is reported to have been in contact with the Libyan
rebels and explained the plight of the Sudanese residents in Libya.
The rebel leaders acknowledged the dire situation of the Darfuris in
particular. They stressed that they would not be carried away by the
unfounded information nor make any premature judgements against any
parties without listening to the point of view of the other.
Colonel Muammar al- Gaddafi and the ruling National Congress Party
(NCP) led by the fugitive ICC indicted criminal Marshal Omer Hassan
Ahmed al-Bashir in Sudan had been playing the cat and mouse game
against each other though both of them share and adopt Pan-Arabism as
a common racial identity and have a lot in common between their
oppressive autocratic regimes.
JEM is in a strong determined position and prepared to lead the
initiative of regime change in the remaining Sudan to change the
genocidal regime in Khartoum. It is widely believed that the national,
regional and the international atmosphere is ripe now to witness it
happening. In other words, many key regional and international players
will be very supportive for such initiative, if we can succeed to
create the momentum and impose the de facto situation on the ground.
This initiative from JEM is based on the fact that the genocidal
regime of the National Congress Party (NCP) is incorrigible depraved
beast and morally corrupts entity and has to be deposed by collective
force. Once late Dr John Garang Mabior the charismatic leader of the
Sudan Peoples Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) was reported to have
said ’this regime is too deformed to be reformed’! Removal of this NCP
regime is timely and has become obligatory on all to make way for the
people of the remaining Sudan (North Sudan) to enjoy freedom, peace
and prosperity in an atmosphere free of racism, religious extremism,
Jihadist Takfir obsession, public money corruption and financial
misappropriation currently practiced by the obnoxious elements in the
disastrous National Congress Party regime.
The president of the NCP regime the ICC indicted fugitive war criminal
Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir chose war option for resolving the
country’s political problems. The regime he is leading is
fundamentally evil and will never change its villainous violations of
human rights or committing more heinous atrocities in Nuba Mountains,
Blue Nile, as it did before in the then South of Sudan and continuing
doing so in Darfur. The Sudanese people shouldn’t expect any
protection from the UN which previously failed and let down people in
Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur and stood by witnessing genocide taking its
toll. The UNSC’s double standards is clearly shown by denying Darfur
and South Kordofan (Nuba Mountains) and Blue Nile No-Fly Zone whereas
it imposed it in record time on Libya. This attitude of the UNSC is
likely to continue for ever as long as the Veto wielding Peoples
Republic of China enjoys and shares financial interests with the NCP
regime for whom it provides Red Carpet welcome to the ICC indicted war
criminal Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir.
In the prevailing circumstances, there is no way for the people of the
remaining Sudan, Known as North Sudan, have to depend on their own
devices and exert their concerted efforts together to bring the racist
band of corrupt criminals of the National Congress Party (NCP) entity
down and change the Arabism-Islamism claiming despotic regime once and
for all. This can be done by the alliance of the political forces,
military might of the rebel groups, The SPLM/N and other resistance
movements and democratic forces, loyal and true-hearted members of the
Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF, youth organisations and all the
disenfranchised marginalised masses of the Sudanese men and women.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is the Deputy Chairman of the General Congress
for Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). He can be reached at
[email protected]
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