Astonishing Sudan’s ruling party
Editorial, The Sudan Tribune
September 5, 2006 — Astonishing to hear Sudanese official saying that there is an international schema to reverse the National Congress Party (NCP) regime, and the UN force to Darfur is a mean to realize this objective. Since 1989, date of the Islamist coup d’état, Sudanese leaders are decrying the “international imperialism and Zionism plot”. One expected they would innovate and invoke other thing than this theory of conspiracy.
Astonishing also to see they are accusing Bush Administration of concocting such plan. The truth that Bush team, is the sole administration that opened contact channel with the Islamist regime in Khartoum and worked hand-to-hand with to “stop” civil wars in southern and western Sudan. Many Sudanese see the American role in both agreements as negative and aiming to consolidate an oppressive regime. The role of John Danforth in Niavasha and the pressures exerted on Garang are still in mind. On Darfur, Abuja fiasco is very recent in minds, and people remember very well the pressure on Darfur rebel groups by Robert Zoellick.
More astonishing, the NCP calls upon Sudanese political forces to gather around the one-dimensional regime. Actually, the National Government political parties precisely the SPLM and the SLM Minawi are both favorable to the UN force to Darfur. But, all the arrogant and narcissistic NCP want is to manipulate the street with the anti-US resentment and exploit the Lebanese tragedy. While the bigger partner of the NCP, the SPLM, denounces publicly the rejection of the UN resolution n° 1706 and the expulsion AU force from Darfur without prior consultations. Concerning, Minawi group they cry that the AU expulsion means the abrogation of Darfur Peace Agreement, but the NCP describes any one who remind this truth as “fifth column”.
Astonishing that the NCP forgets he is the sole responsible of this shameful war of Darfur. The cause of this crisis is political one. The National Islamic Front (NIF) in search of regional allies in Darfur backed the nomad tribes, and gave them the land to the detriment of the farmers and confiscated their ancestral propriety. Instead of playing the role of the arbitrageurs, the NIF preferred to be the unjust and the oppressor. Then, the people of Darfur in front of this fragrant injustice decided to hold the arms, which is very normal and legitimate. No one can support such a tyrannical regime.
At last, what is astonishing in the NCP leadership that they are at the command of the country because they control the institutions of coercion : the army and the security services. They forget why they organized the coup d’état. They forget that they were and are still a minority party.