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Subject: [SUDAN] NUBA MOUNTAINS, THE NEXT DARFUR?
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*NUBA MOUNTAINS, THE NEXT DARFUR?* By Hon. David Kilgour (*) (SMCM)
Permit me to refer to some points made by Hassan Sharif, chair of the
Nuba Mountains International Association Canada:
The air bombings by North Sudan's government based in Khartoum and
the resulting devastation among residents of the Nuba Mountains are
race-based. These civilians are seen as Africans by the Bashir regime,
which respects only those it considers Arabs. The residents of the Nuba
Mountains- whether Muslim, Christian or animist in religion - normally
live in harmony.
Humanitarian aid is not reaching Nuba Mountain residents because of
continuing bombing and violence. This is why an immediate no-fly zone is
needed and why UN peacemakers with a strong mandate (chapter 7) are
needed now. If the international community does not act quickly, the
Nuba Mountains could become the next Darfur.
The Bashir government has declared Jihad against the Nuba people.
Bashir only yesterday said that there will be no negotiations and that
the war will continue. Between 1983 and the late '90s, Khartoum targeted
the Nuba people, killing many civilians.
The Harper government should apply much more pressure on Bashir to
stop targeting civilians in the Nuba Mountains. It should push for a
no-fly zone at the UN and in other international bodies.
*Eric Reeves*
In mid-August, Professor Eric Reeves of Smith College, who has long
followed events in Sudan as closely as anyone in North America, provided
his analysis of Khartoum's aerial assaults on civilians, 1999 -- 2011,
which can be accessed at www.sudanbombing.org, and he continues to
update this information. His latest update brought the total confirmed
aerial attacks on civilian and humanitarian targets in Sudan to over 1,500.
The attacks by Antonov bombers, helicopter gunships, and jet aircraft
from Khartoum have inflicted terrible suffering on the people of South
Sudan, Darfur, and now again in the Nuba Mountains. Reeves judges them
atrocity crimes without historical precedent, and in aggregate crimes
against humanity as defined by the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court (7.1). He notes that the bombing also continues
relentlessly in both Darfur and the Nuba Mountains.
*Nuba Mountains Coalition*
Shams Alsanosi, co-coordinator of the Nuba Mountains International
Association of Canada, Dr. Norman L Epstein, co-chair Canadians Against
Slavery and Torture in Sudan, and Ismail Adam, president of Darfur
Association of Canada, wrote a few days ago in the Epoch Times about
what brings us all here today. To help provide them with the attention
their article deserves, and agreeing fully with what they say, permit me
to quote their piece:
Smoke billowing out of charred huts, corpses with slit throats strewn on
the ground and satellite photos clearly illustrating mass graves. Is
this a re-enactment of the heinous crimes in Darfur? Notwithstanding the
continued violence in Darfur, this disturbing vignette is the recent
vicious onslaught by the government of Sudan against the Nubian people,
an African tribe in South Kordofan (also known as the Nuba Mountains), a
region bordering North Sudan and the new sovereign state of South Sudan.
This is not the first time the Nubian people have had to withstand the
malicious wrath of the Khartoum regime. In the early 1990s, the
government of Sudan systematically ... killed close to 200,000 Nubians,
arguably called a genocide by many. In the current episode, no one knows
the actual numbers murdered...
However, numerous witnesses have consistently verified that mass
atrocities are taking place. As well, a leaked UN report also
corroborates these accounts.
President Al Bashir of northern Sudan has called for South Kordofan to
be 'ethnically cleansed' of African people. His regime has perpetrated
repeatedly crimes against marginalized Africans---the Dinka and Nuer in
the south, the Nubians and the Fur, Masseleit and Zaghawa in Darfur. He
has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against
humanity for orchestrating the well-documented genocide in Darfur. Yet
when the South officially seceded and became a sovereign country on July
9, he stood among dignitaries in Juba as though he is a credible man of
peace and reconciliation. However, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
(CPA) signed between the North and South tenuously hangs by a thread.
The disputed region of Abeyei, which contains significant oil resources,
was supposed to have had a referendum to determine whether (it) would be
incorporated in North or South Sudan. The area is populated mostly by
Dinka African tribes, loyal to the South and the North has postponed the
referendum over the dubious contention that a nomadic Arab tribe, the
Misseriya, loyal to the regime, should be permitted to vote. The
government of Sudan has violently secured the area despite the promise
of Ethiopian peacekeepers moving in. Hair-trigger tensions have
precipitated episodic violence between the North and South that could
explode into a full-scale conflagration once more.
There is a pretense that Bashir and his regime are part of the solution
but in fact (they) are the source of the problem. The regime's duplicity
is well-known... It has signed peace treaties, demonstrating little
desire to implement them completely and participates in peace talks that
it has tried to sabotage. The Doha peace process in Qatar to end the
conflict in Darfur has been an abysmal failure. Regardless, the
international community sends a constant parade of envoys carrying
'carrots' to engage the Khartoum regime. When will enough be enough?
When will the world finally stand up to this cabal of serial
genocidaires? When will the world wield the proverbial stick to rein in
this regime's egregious behaviour?
There is much that can be done. Certainly a limited no fly zone should
be considered in South Kordofan if mass atrocities continue. Are not
African lives just as worthy as Libyan lives? The UN Mission in Sudan
(UNMIS), peacekeeping force, should have its mandate strengthened to
Chapter VII to intervene proactively to save lives--- instead of mere
observers and reacting post hoc.
Economic measures should be tried first. The government of Sudan has a
foreign debt reportedly in excess of 30 billion dollars with a promise
by the IMF to forgive it. The IMF could threaten to rescind this if
there is not a cessation of hostilities. A blockade of the Port of Sudan
could prevent the shipping of Sudan's oil exports, a major source of
revenue. Intense pressure must be exerted on China, who has been the
main benefactor of Sudan's oil and a commercial lifeline to the regime.
Prime Minister Harper has said that Canada "will not lead from the
bleachers" and has not been reticent in taking principled stands. Canada
could coalesce the international community of other like-minded
countries and co-ordinate such a bold initiative. Thousands of African
lives hang in the balance. Is it not the time to act with resolve to end
the interminable suffering of the people of Sudan? Or in the words of
Canadian icon, General Dallaire, 'Are some humans more human than others?'
*Conclusion*
The Harper government should take action. A good first step would be to
encourage a sense of urgency in international bodies, including the UN,
about the catastrophe now affecting large numbers of innocent people in
the Nuba Mountains and South Kordofan.
Thank you.
(*) /Delivered at the Solidarity Day for Nuba Mountains, Vincent Massey
Park, Ottawa, 10 September 2011
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