Bashir’s congratulation for Trump remains double-edged sword
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
This is a note to the readers of this article about my use of the
phrase double-edged sword. It means that Omar al-Bashir’s Speedy
congratulation offer to Donald Trump might turn out with negative
results such as a miscalculation that recoils on its maker – like a
boomerang! This assumption is based on the unpredictability and fame
of President Donald Trump in the Issuance of Controversial Executive
Orders with far reaching consequences. Travel ban for citizens of
majority Muslim countries to the US for ninety days, an example par
excellence. And of course, we should not turn a blind eye to his views
on the construction of the fence between his country and Mexico and
that he does not recognise the climate change and his unjustified
hostility towards the media and journalists for no apparent reasons
and so forth. Perhaps we have not wronged the US president in his
right if we brought some of the aforementioned examples of the actions
of the new US President Donald Trump.
AS for the NCP regime president Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, he feels
a little glee and pleasure these days for the positions taken by the
so-called international community, which began to flirt with the
ruling regime in Khartoum, according to the intersecting interests.
This is more so especially the wave of migration coming from the Horn
of African countries – Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti to
European beaches and shores across the Mediterranean Sea, Libya, as
well as the fight against terrorism coming from the state Islamist in
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in exchange for millions of euros from the
European Union (EU). It is noteworthy that the regime of the NCP built
camps in the far East region of Sudan to imprison refugees from the
Horn of African countries in dire humanitarian conditions similar to
the Nazi camps to prevent them crossing into Europe. And worst, they
are denied of access to the money which is estimated in the millions
obtained from the EU. It is reported that there are about 35 thousand
refugees in the states of Eastern Sudan., The most famous and most
influential among the camps is "Shejarab" Camp in Kassala State ???? -
????? ?????. https://www.alrakoba.net/news-action-show-id-41320.htm.
With regards to the favourable report of the outgoing the U.S. Special
Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan Donald E. Booth about the Sudanese
regime, political analysts thought that Mr. Booth was a frustrated
envoy and never achieved anything tangible during the tenure of his
office. He tried to reward the genocidal criminal regime! Moreover, Mr
Booth’s master of grace, former President Barak Obama, also rewarded
the (NCP) regime partial lifting of economic sanctions before his
departure, which the people of Sudan’s War-Torn Darfur region –
survivors of genocide - would not shed tears as he (Obama) failed to
honour his pledges and promises he made 8 years ago.
It is regrettable that the international community represented in the
UN Special Panel for Darfur on behalf the UN Security Council,
visiting the National Congress Party (NCP) government in Khartoum has
been writing reports the source of information of which is the ruling
regime of the NCP without their visits to areas of conflict in Darfur.
The people of Darfur strongly believe that the UNSC armchair report
writers have been depending in most cases on false information in
their accounts. And even worst is hat the UN Security Council issues
allegations against the armed movements of Darfur based on those
biased reports and incriminates them of alleged recruitment of Child
Soldiers without verified evidence free from suspicion and falsehood.
It is regrettable that the UNSC unfortunately, has brought itself into
disrepute and to the degree of lack of credibility through the reports
based on information gathered from the criminal genocidal regime of
the National Congress Party (NCP) in Khartoum that playing the roles
of judge, jury and executioner.
Based on the foregoing, the people of Sudan in the war-torn region of
Darfur would like to express their disappointment regarding the lack
of attention to the grievances underlying the current conflict in
Darfur. Still, injustice from the (NCP) affects the people of Darfur
especially the students from Darfur in universities and other higher
education institutions throughout Sudan, discrimination against the
people of Darfur in cities, government institutions, civil and
military service and business. The NCP regime deliberately failed to
disarm or disband the Janjaweed militias – the NCP recycled Janjaweed
the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which wreaked havoc on the villages,
towns and cities including the Sudanese Capital Khartoum and of course
the region of Darfur leading to more displacement and migration of the
population. Therefore, no lasting peace is expected in Sudan without
addressing the underlying causes of the conflict and their resolution.
The Darfur crisis has continued as it were 14 years on without a
tangible hope. The people of Darfur in particular and Sudan, in
general, expect the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take
greater notice of the need to resolve the causes of the ongoing woes
and other issues facing the civilian population. Moreover, among what
makes political observers surprised and frustration for the citizens
is the silence of the international institution (UNSC) on the use of
chemical weapons by the Government of Sudan against the civilian
population of Darfur in the Jebel Marra locality and certainly there
are other unresolved grievances. And, of course, there is still
non-stop talk about the genocidal criminal and the fugitive from the
international justice, leader of the NCP regime, Omer Hassan Ahmed
al-Bashir who continues freely travelling widely even to countries
considered signatories and ratified the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court (ICC), and his arrest warrant. The first
warrant for arrest for Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir was issued on 4
March 2009, the second on 12 July 2010. However, the suspect is still
at large. https://www.icc-cpi.int/darfur/albashir. The Popular proverb
says that snakes no matter how long they age, they cannot dispense
with their deadly poison. Accordingly, the ruling regime of the NCP
remains dependent on harbouring terrorists. And all the reports
confirm the existence of their evil hands in Libya and Egypt joining
the forces with fellow jihadists of multitude names. The international
community’s reliance on the ruling regime of the NCP to fight
terrorism is nothing but running after the mirage thinking there was a
sea of water, so to speak.!
Now we enter in some details to the subject of the title of this
article. News Media outlets carried a lot of commentaries and
criticisms of the recent news about the US new President Donald J.
Trump’s myriad Executive Orders (EO) that have so far affected many
people’s lives around the globe. Opinions on the (EOs) of President
Trump have been diverse. As for the people of Sudan in Darfur, they
wish President Donald Trump in Washington to issue a new Executive
Order (EO) to link the lifting of economic sanctions on Sudan to
sustainable Peace and Democratic reforms. As we know very well that
the lifting of economic sanctions on Sudan, which is decided by the
former US President Barack Obama will only benefit the parasitic
capitalists, vampires and the consumers of public coffers affiliated
to the ruling regime of the NCP and will not benefit the Sudanese
people in Darfur who suffer from poverty, disease, killing and forced
displacement from their original homes to bring in foreigners in their
place for preparation for the crime of demographic change of the
region. But the people of Sudan do not object in principle lifting of
economic sanctions on Sudan in the event that would benefit the
members of the general disenfranchised Sudanese public. But with
respect to President Trump’s controversial Executive Orders (EOs),
some quarters considered them as blessings whereas others might have
called them as a “Disaster in the Making “. In that, as if the
President is offering Cart Blanche to the extremist terrorists to
target the US. The latter referring to the travel ban for Seven
Muslim-Majority Countries of Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Libya,
and Yemen. Most of the criticism towards the travel ban strategy came
from people within the US, EU and Iran. The rest of the world
including the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Sudan which
earlier praised the coming of Donald Trump as a US President and
successor to President Barack Obama, who lifted partially the economic
sanctions imposed on Sudan since the era of the rule of former
President Bill Clinton then, in 1997. President Bill Clinton issued
that Executive Order to stop the National Islamic Front (NIF) in Sudan
from sponsoring ’terrorism’ for harbouring extremist Islamists, among
them Osama Bin Laden and as well as to its violations of human rights.
To be more precise, the U.S. placed Sudan on its list of countries
sponsoring terrorism in 1993, and in 1997 President Clinton imposed a
comprehensive trade embargo against Sudan and blocked the assets of
the Sudanese government, claiming it was sponsoring international
terrorism. Osama bin Laden was living in Khartoum, as a guest of the
Sudan’s government, when he was suspected of responsibility for the
bombings of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in
1998, killing more than 200 people. In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to
cut its ties with terrorists and expelled Osama bin Laden on May 18,
1996, to Afghanistan. Peter Bergen the American journalist, author,
documentary producer, professor, think tank executive and CNN’s
national security analyst has been quoted as said that - at one point
people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they
were based in Sudan.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/peterlber432542.html.
Furthermore, Barton David Gellman the American journalist and
bestselling author known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning reports on the
September 11 attacks has been reported as had indicated that the
government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its
president to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), offered in the
early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi
custody, according to officials and former officials in all three
countries
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Barton+Gellman+and+sudan.
In retaliation, President Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile strike
against what turned out to be a pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum,
named ‘Al-Shifa’. The US administration, at the time, claimed the
plant was actually a disguised chemical weapons factory. The US
officials said that soil samples taken outside the Al-Shifa plant had
shown the presence of a substance known as Empta, whose only function
was to make the nerve gas VX. The plant, moreover, was heavily
guarded, the President Clinton Administration said, and it showed a
suspicious lack of ordinary commercial activities. Since 1997 the US
has regularly renewed sanctions quoting the continuing conflicts in
Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan regions and humanitarian issues
as well as a number of outstanding issues between Sudan and South
Sudan including the dispute over the oil-rich area of Abyei.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.mfa.gov.et/-/united-states-announces-its-intention-to-lift-economic-sanctions-on-sudan&gws_rd=cr&ei=qRCWWKreNojDgAa5x4WgBw
Many people wonder about the possibility that the new American
President Donald Trump to issue an Executive Order to cancel former
President Obama’s decision to lift economic sanctions on Sudan in part
as he tried to cancel Obama’s previous decisions, and particular in
the area known by the term Obamacare which is the plan for health care
and health services. And what making its likelihood stronger is the
re-inclusion of the name of Sudan among the countries that have been
prohibited from entering its civilians to the United States for a
period of ninety days. In the period 1990–1991 the National Islamic
Front (NIF) under the leadership of the late Dr. Hassan Abdalla
al-Turabi established the Popular Arab and Islamic Congress Conference
(PAIC) that sought to unify Mujahideen and other Islamic elements in
the wake of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Iraqi
defeat in the Gulf War. Al-Turabi’s move was thought as an attempt of
forming a Pan-Arabism and Pan-Islamic union. It was estimated to have
brought together 500 people among them Osama Bin Laden, from 45
nations; Hassan al-Turabi, as Secretary-General of the Conference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Arab_and_Islamic_Congress
The NIF slogans at the time were very hostile to the West in general
and to the United States of America in particular. The NIF considered
the US as its arch-enemy; and that its demise has had been nearing!
Moreover, the NIF affiliates boasted that their ideology emanated from
what they called the “Cultural Project and Apostolic Orientation”.
Moreover, they strongly thought that both America and Russia their
Torment has been brought near!
Today there is a Sudanese citizen who has said in a letter to both
America and Russia Let’s open a new avenue for securing food for many
of the inhabitants of the earth, to all humanity without any sort of
religious affiliation, race, colour creed, gender, age or locality and
open the new page or interests and to fight hunger, poverty and
ignorance, not only in Sudan but in many parts of the globe!
The foregoing Logos of hatred which were raised by the NIF and traded
in the name of the Islamic religion only for the acquisition of
empowerment, corruption and enrichment to defraud the ordinary Muslim
people and those logos have now gone unheeded! Moreover, the National
Congress Party (NCP) regime and its predecessor National Islamic Front
(NIF) have long claimed their Arab ancestry and contempt and disdain
for the rest of the citizens and residents of the country of Sudan on
the basis of racism and condescension in spite of their physical
Negroid features. Racism goes on in the souls of those staunchly
affiliated to the Supremacist Muslim Brotherhood Movement in Sudan as
the blood that runs in their bodies! Nevertheless, the phrase “the pot
calling the kettle black” is applicable to them. Leila Aboulela, the
Sudanese writer who writes in English and Her latest novel, The
Kindness of Enemies is inspired by the life of Imam Shamil, who united
the tribes of the Caucasus to fight against Russian Imperial expansion
has been quoted as saying: (Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not
African enough for Africans).
http://www.quotter.net/sudan-is-not-arab-enough-for-arabs-and-not-african-enough-for-africans-quote-by-leila-aboulela_1188001
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is an author, columnist and a blogger. His
blog is http://thussudan.wordpress.com/
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