Regime change is the solution to Sudanese’s problem
By Maker Mabor Marial
October 11, 2010 — Despite the SPLM’s boots on the NCP’s neck, the Islamists led regime in Khartoum is still struggling ferociously, and is causing more destruction to the helpless Sudanese populace in Darfur and other regions in the country. The regime has already resumed its campaign to exterminate the people of Darfur and also planed to bomb and annihilate Southern Sudanese’s villages early next year as a punishment in the event Southern Sudanese vote to secede.
And so, the call for war against Southerners and other Sudanese who want to challenge the Islamists regime was made last week by a Presidential Adviser, and senior member of the ruling NCP Party Mustafa Osman Ismail. His remarks at the meeting held in Kassala, North-eastern Sudan prove that the Islamists’ regime is still breathing and needs to be put to sleep if Sudanese want to live in peace!
According to pro-government Akhir Lahza newspaper in reference to Isamail’s statement, “a Senior Sudanese official today called on the country’s youth and students to prepare for war to defend the country against challenges facing the nation if the southern Sudan secedes”.
In view of that, Ismail urged all those were able to carry arms to mobilize in order to protect the country against challenges in the even of the south’s split. For this reason, Mr. Ismail is not only calling for war but was also unlashing the young Muslim radicals who have been training for years on terrorism tactics to move to south and kill southerners by blowing themselves up. The plot for terrorist’s highly classified training was uncovered by the Goss Intelligence and was reported by several media including Sudan Tribune in October, 2007. According to the report, “the courses were designed to build a special force loyal and dedicated to carry out jihad in the South and to implement tough orders given to them….Most of the southerners who are in charge of security in the south and some who are integrated in the high security position in the North after CPA are of less education and knowledge about security matters” GoSS intelligence reports, (Sudan Tribune, 2007.)
Sudan’s Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha, accompanied by high ranking government and security officials was reported to have attended the opening of the training program at Hantouk Gazira. During the opening ceremony, hate speeches were directed at non-Muslims, there was also a slur on Dr. John Garang as well as denouncement of Muslims working closely with GoSS. For this reason, Taha was quoted as calling for arm rebellion in the South. He said that he was “ready to put oil revenue in Sudan to support the war in South Sudan to liberate the South from infidels backed by the Israelites.” In his speech, Taha declared that time had come for the people of Sudan to unite against “infidels” referring to South Sudanese. He also said that “the war in the South Sudan took 21 years but the new crusade to liberate south would only take 21 days.” Mr. Taha went on to say, the NCP signed the CPA under the international pressure and therefore intent not to recognize it. Taha also told the Mujahdeens recruits that similar training for Muslim youth were taking place in all ten states of Southern Sudan. According to GoSS intelligence reports, “the Muslim youth training had been organized by the Islamic elites in Khartoum. The programs include training on the use of explosives and explosive belts as well as recitations of the spirit of terrorism in Jihad war. Other subjects are aptly titled: how to exploit the churches and the and the spirit to die in the name of God,” (Sudan Tribune, October 6, 2007) the GoSS Intelligence reports stated that the mujihadeen recruits were to watch video shows for 10 hours per day on “Jihad suicide operations and handling of explosives in public places. The recruits were also assigned special tasks in Khartoum to monitor the movements of members of the military and politicians from the south. The recruits were told during the opening session of Hantoub training by a top adviser to the GONU that because of the comparative advantages, it would make “the penetration of military installations and government institutions plus eliminating the key leaders in the South as easy target.”
The plan to kill Southerners and those Muslim brothers who refused to be radicalized is well-known and people should be prepared for it. The Mujihadeen have been training for years and are capable of terrorizing the whole of Sudan. They will eliminate all Darfurians together with their marginalized Sudanese brothers and sisters who are fighting for their own rights in the country. The Islamists through the use of their new acquired weapons and warplanes will kill everybody and take over the Sudan and call it whatever the name they want it called.
The Islamists are afraid that the oppressed peace loving Sudanese in the north will bring down the regime soon after the south separates, so it is better to eliminate them before they unite their forces against the regime. But there is a glimpse of hope here, the fall of the ruthless regime is eminent as the marginalized Sudanese will soon unite together to end the regime’s dictatorial rule in their loved country, Blad el Sudan!
Similar to Mr. Isamail’s statement, the Arab Misseriya tribe in Abyei on September 29 threatened to use force against the Dinka Ngok if they were not allowed to vote in a referendum in which the Dinka Ngok will decide whether to remain part of the north or south. Mukhtar Babo Nimr, the chief of the Misseriya told the government runs Sudanese Media Center (SMC). The voice here is a shared view from the NCP. The NCP is trying by all means to push south to war. This statement was made specifically to coincide with the Mr. Isamail’s statement in which he called for war. The NCP plans to use Abyei as an excuse for reigniting the south-north war.
The statement from Misseriya chief has been reaffirmed by Sudan 2nd VP Ali Osman Taha when he said that the Abyei referendum would not take place unless the pending issues were resolved by the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement or SPLM. This is an NCP’s plan for reneging on agreed timeframe for the crucial vote for referendum. It shows that the NCP is not interested in the free and fair conduct of the referenda and wants to find some scapegoat for starting the war. The NCP has until recently realized that Southerners are going to vote for independence therefore they are using all kinds of delaying tactics so that the referenda can not take place on time. They want the interim period to expire on January 9, 2011 and then trash the CPA.
This is the Islamists’ known game, they don’t respect agreements, and they junk the signed documents and throw signatories on the street. Recently, it was reported that the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) faction Minni Minawi who had signed the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) with the regime in Abuja, Nigeria in 2006 has moved his 600 men to southern Sudan. He is believed to be preparing himself for war with the north. The peace agreement that he had signed with the regime was not implemented and as a result he has been left out in the new government of the ICC indicted war criminal, Omer Hassan Al Bashir.
There are on going peace talks between the regime and the rebels of Liberation of Justice Movement (LJM) in Doha, Qatar. These talks are just jokes; the rebels are being lured into signing agreements that will not be respected by the regime in Khartoum. The regime will make all these negative promises to decoy the rebels and then dishonor the agreements after the rebel’s army is observed into SAF.
On some other development, the regime has stepped up its campaign to eliminate the people of Darfur by killing everybody there. The camps of internally displaced persons are under attacked constantly by the government sponsored militias which results in the death of hundreds of the helpless innocents civilians. On the other hand, the Darfurian rebels are being squeezed in by the regime, its sponsored militias and the notorious Ugandan’s LRA rebels in the Darfur.
Late last week, over 100 lives were lost and four villages burned to hashes after the government’s military Antonov warplane attacked the residents of Jebel Mara in Darfur. Sudan Tribune was told by Sudan’s Liberation Army (SLA) that the Army, (Sudan Armed Forces) and its militias had attacked 14 villages from Sept 26-27, killed 57 people and displaced from their homes 500 civilians. Again on Friday October 1, 2010, the Villages around Jebel Marra area were attacked and as a result 45 school children and 55 civilian were killed while 7,000 residents fled their homes in fear of more indiscriminate attacks.
The architects of the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776 wrote:
“when in the Course of human events it become necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a respect to opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
The designers of the modern America used these words to liberate themselves from the British. Likewise, the Sudanese citizens who have been killed, enslaved, oppressed and marginalized for generations by the pitiless regimes in Khartoum have all the reasons to have their choices respected and honored by the International Community. They must be allowed to either pull their ranks together and overthrow this ruthless regime militarily or use Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) to create their own small peaceful nations. Otherwise there will always be wars in the north after the south secedes in January 2011.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among men, driving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such a form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness,” (The U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776).
Have Sudanese people been granted Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness in Sudan? No, the successive regimes in Khartoum have for decades killed millions of Sudanese in the South, Blue Nile, Nubia Mountain, eastern Sudan, Far North, and Khartoum. The current Islamist regime is now killing people of Darfur and it is planning to kill Southern Sudanese in 2011 after the referendum vote for separation.
The regime has also been preventing people from pursuing their happiness. Women are beaten on the streets of Khartoum because of wearing cloth that do not reflect Islamic culture, or go out with men other than their own husbands or relatives. Social gatherings are forbidden, freedoms of expressions have been discouraged, and those who try to voice their opinions are imprisoned or killed by the regime. Journalists are arrested, tortured and their news agencies that are viewed to be critical of the regime are closed down.
The regime (as it has been stated by the liberators of the American citizens and the Founding Fathers of the American Government) must soon be replaced with a good government architected by the Sudanese people according to their own will.
For the above reasons, all the Sudanese people have rights under international law to choose their destiny. And therefore, the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) has all the rights to use UDI to declare Southern Sudan as an independent country in the early morning of January 10, 2011 (in the event the Islamist regime used all the delaying tactics to derail the crucial vote for independence). The GoSS must also be prepared to defeat the regime after it launches the attack on the south hours after the declaration of independence.
Khartoum will be attacking the sovereign nation of South Sudan (just like when Israel was attacked by its Muslim neighbors in 1948). Many nations around the world are interested in a regime change in Sudan (just like in Iraq and Afghanistan). So, the rebels in Darfur, other political forces who are dissatisfied with the regime, the ordinary Sudanese citizens who are fed up with the killings in the country, and other allies of Southern Sudan will help Southern Sudan quickly topple Khartoum and establish the new Unity Government located in Juba.
This regime change will facilitate the immediate solution to the Darfur conflict, boarder issues, Abyei referendum, wealth sharing, etc. The new Unity government of Sudan in Juba can then decide to give the north back to the Muslims (similar to when Israel decided to give back the Sinai after war with Egypt) in exchange for peace. Remember all this will be a consequence of Khartoum deciding to start a war with sovereign S.Sudan nation. It will depend on advanced preparation and agreement with Southern Sudan’s allies.
The author of this article is a Sudanese and lives in the United States. He can be reached at [email protected].