The Sudanese Revolutionary Front: Right way to the united and new Sudan

By Gamal Adam

November 24, 2011 — The Sudanese problem was misleadingly defined as the problem between ‘the African Christian and animist South’ and ‘Muslim Arab North’ until it finally resulted in the secession of the South in July 2011. The same mistake is again currently repeated by Sudanese Arab nationalists’ regime and the representatives of some international organisations and countries as the problem between Darfur and Khartoum, Nuba Mountains and Khartoum, and Southern Blue Nile and Khartoum. However, at least 80% of Khartoum’s population is also seriously victimised and held on the margins of the society. The segmentation of Sudanese problem as the Darfur problem, Nuba Mountain problem, Southern Blue Nile problem, and so forth is the definition chosen by Sudanese Arab nationalists’ regime led by the most racist president in Sudan’s history, Omer al Bashir, in order to protect the Arab nationalists’ clan-based politics and prolong the Arab nationalists’ rule of the country even if it will ultimately result in many miniature Sudans in the long run.

Like Sudanese Arab nationalists, representatives of many international organisations and diplomats of most countries ‘concerned’ about the Sudanese problem also prefer the segmented definition of the problem even if some of them are aware that such a definition leads gradually to the fragmentation of the Africa’s giant – mother Sudan — in smaller warring entities. Some of these foreigners followed the Arab nationalists in their definition of the problem out of naivety, finding it too difficult to trace the Sudanese problem to the nub, while others do so in order to protect the geopolitical interests of their countries and still others simply want to add something new to their CVs. They all prefer the quick fix, but sort lasted solutions. Again, some individuals from what are known in today’s Sudanese politics as the marginalized regions of Sudan are also used by the Arab nationalists to accept the half and instant solutions out of naivety or opportunism.

However, the Sudanese problem has always been one since its independence in 1956: racism imposed in the name of Islam by a few blind minded individuals of the Sudanese elite descending from some specific areas of Northern Sudan, most particularly from today’s Wilayat Nahr al Nil (the River Nile State), who believe that Sudan is their individual property and that they have the right to run it the way they like. Their unshakable belief is that, because they think that they are Arabs, Sudan has to be run as an Arab country even though the history and social geography of the country tell completely an opposite story. The Arab nationalists found Islam as the most suitable means for the realization of their project of Arab nationalism even though in streets of Arab countries most of them are seen as non-Arabs and are addressed with the same racial slurs individual Fur, Nuba, Funj, and Beja are addressed. Like their Arab identity, the Sudanese Arab nationalists’ Islam is also questionable: their behavior is totally against the tenets of Islam and against the principles of most religions known to the humanity. They simply use Islam as the tool of intimidation and a disguise for their satanic discriminatory behaviors that victimize all the other Sudanese, including even the Arabs of Darfur, Kordofan, Central Sudan, Eastern Sudan, and liberal thinking individuals and non-clan members from Wilayat Nahr al Nil itself. So, the Arabism disguised in the name of Islamism is the problem of the whole Sudan, but it has devastated some regions more than others because of their location and the structure of their population – it is a racist problem that follows the Sudanese individually everywhere they move within the country favoring some of them and victimizing others. It also emptied the Sudanese society of good mores and refilled it with hatred and all types of crimes most of which would have made the hair of Sudanese stand on end had they heard of them a couple of decades ago.

As the all attempts for reaching a just and lasting settlement through peaceful negotiations always failed seriously, prolonged the suffering of victimized population, and further divided the country, the change of Arab nationalists’ regime and its replacement by a decentralized democratic regime, which will equally embrace the Sudanese regardless of their ethnic, cultural, religious and regional backgrounds, is the only option that has remained for the suffering Sudanese. Naivasha, Abuja, Cairo, Asmara, and Doha all proved to be instant palliatives to the pain of dying boy (Sudan), but they are healthful to its killer virus – the Arab nationalists’ regime led by Omer al Bashir who always reminded the non-Arab Sudanese, in every single public speech he delivered, that they do not have a space in Sudan and addressed them with all racial stereotypes in private meetings with members of his clan. They are simply classified as “dangerous” other by al Bashir and his circle, whereas categories such as Egyptians and Chinese are probably the second closest people to al Bashir’s heart immediately after his clan members: he can relinquish any amount of Sudanese land to Egyptians even if they take it by force and reward them with more land and cattle and sheep at the expense of starving Sudanese; his regime also gives a Chinese street vendor in Khartoum the right to call the police for a Sudanese street vendor who tries to display a couple of items beside him in order to feed his weary hungry family. Therefore, al Bashir and his Arab nationalists are Sudanese only in their appearance, but internally they feel to be non-Sudanese and live with souls somewhere else with other people. The internal conflict of their bodies is reflected by their unjustifiable crazy behavior of wounded buffalos which encourages the politicians of some Arab countries such as Doctor Tawfig ‘Akasha of Egypt to include the annexation of Sudan to their political campaigns because it is a country run by fools. Consequently, Omer al Bashir and his Arab nationalists are unfit to rule Sudan in anyway and the change of their regime with its institutions is necessary for the existence of Sudan.

The Sudanese Revolutionary Front is the right way toward ending the racist era of Arab nationalism in the history of Sudan and establishing a new strong and respected Sudan that is for all the Sudanese regardless of their races, languages, religions, cultures, colors, and so forth. The following are among the points that will make the Sudanese Revolutionary Front the savior of Sudanese peoples from Arab nationalism (and its incompetent crazy leaders) which has to be replaced by a civic nationalism based on the rule of law:

1) There has to be a clearly drawn vision of a new decentralized democratic Sudan based on citizenship. The vision has to be made available to Sudanese in both Arabic and English.

2) An appeal should be launched to all Sudanese to join the front and the front’s doors should be open to all Sudanese who believe in the united new Sudan, which is for all of us, and are ready to work together toward its realization.

3) The leaders of the front should not be distracted by mediations leading to half solutions and further division of the country, as the Arab nationalists’ regime will endeavor to find ways leading to half solutions because its survival is based on half solutions.

4) All kinds of individual interests should be superseded by the objectives of the front. Therefore, the movements which constitute the front should completely fuse in it and individual factions’ names should be eliminated to avoid any schisms in the future.

5) The front’s structure should be quickly agreed upon and a right person should be in a right place based on experience, knowledge, and commitment to the cause.

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