A warning to African leaders

By Garang Ayang Kuoi

Jan 21, 2006 — This is a warning to African leaders that if they allow the Sudanese president Omar Al Beshir to head the African Union, they will have to make sure that they dig a grave for Darfurians and eastern Sudan people in order to bury them. The African leaders will also make sure that their political image will be view as unscrupulous and that they are killers and cold blood thirst. What sense would it make to African people and the world at large to elect a killer leader like al-Bahsir to head the African Union a peace mediator organization in the African region? What sense would it make to elect a war monk like al-Bashir who continuously supports lord resistant Army ( LRA) of Uganda and Chadian rebels in the Sudanese borders just to kill and eliminate the Sudanese who demands Justice and equal opportunities from al-Bashir dictated government? What sense would it make to the African people and the world at large if Al-Bashir is elected as the chairman of African Union when he has failed to solve and stop massacre which is still take place in Darfur? Women in Darfur are being rapes and victimized by the Sudanese security forces, but he has been doing nothing to stop suffering in Darfur. Children and elderly people in Darfur die days and night in Darfur because diseases and hunger caused to them by war but Al-Bashir has failed to do anything that could improve the suffering of innocence people in Drafur.

The Sudanese president has failed to solve his own problems in his country such as the implementation of the South North peace agreement (CPA) signed on January 9th 2005 in Nairobi Kenya; yet such countries like Egypt have strongest support for the Sudanese president to lead the rotating African Union leadership. What question do you ask yourself about al-Bashir becoming the chairman of African Union if you support him? I know that if he elected to lead the African Union, the people of Darfur will all die, given the fact that he is a failure of peace making and a leader who does not care about the lives and security of his people, that is why his administration based in Khartoum has been strongly opposing the United Nation decision of replacing African Union troops with foreign and western troops which can bring the better change on the ground in the obliterated region of western Sudan. He knows better than anything that the militias known and security forces that he support to kill people of Darfur could be track down by western forces and that they can know his support to the militias better than poor African Union troops who are currently serving on the ground in Darfur.

Let us suggest that the African leaders must look for a new candidate instead of Sudanese president, or the Nigerian president should be given another term to lead the African Union organization, because we know that al-Bashir will basically bring no change to Darfur or another troubling region in Africa since he has failed to end the conflict in his troubling western. Unless if the African Union organization is an aimless organization that has nothing to do with peace stabilities in Africa. Omar al-Bashir is a leader who has nothing to do with peace because of his dark vision that who ever demand his right to have equal opportunities and justice under the law is the one he called a criminal against his government. A few weeks ago, the Egyptian security forces and police waged war on the Sudanese refugee residing in Egypt because of their protest against the United Nation, most of us concerned citizens of Sudan have patiently waited to hear something from our brutal president about the murder of his people who were brutally killed and died in the hand of Egyptian authorities, but none has been said by him, which means that anything that kills and victimize those who opposes his government in one way or the other pleases him most. That is why we think that if African Union organization was formed as some kind of organizations that support killing like al-Bahsir’s Jihad, then he is would be the best candidate to chair it, but if it is an organization which was formed for the sake of peace and security of African people, then he is a wrong choice to have. Those who support al-Bashir in his campaign must make sure that if they succeed, they endanger the innocent people of Darfur.

* Garang Ayang Kuoi, a Sudanese rights activist based in Rumbek.