UN Security Council should deploy forces without Sudan consent
By Peter Lokarlo Marsu *
September 18, 2006 — The clock is ticking fast and the count down has begun for the African Union troops to pack up and quit the troubled region of Darfur by the end of this month, yet the World Body remains ambivalent and seems caged in dogmatic, idealistic and anachronistic credo of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states.
This lacklustre and unresponsive posture is blameworthy for multiplicity of Human Rights abuses and infringements across the globe. Time is ripe for the UN to espouse a more viable and radical philosophy that would effectively be handy in resolving most of the contemporary problems arising from more often, wanton, violent and irresponsible behaviour of national governments towards their own citizens, giving rise to mayhem and consequent genocidal practices as seen in South Sudan, Rwanda, Bosnia, and now Darfur, though the South Sudanese ghastly settings had passed out unnoticed, owing to the relentless and successful collaborative cover-up campaigns by Khartoum and the Arab League. The conflict in Sudan’s Darfur is manifestly one of the most dramatic spectres of classic brutality the country has ever witnessed after the conclusion of the bloody war (JIHAD) Khartoum had steadfastly waged against South Sudan.
The National Congress Party (NCP) of Sudan is evidently inclined towards a full-blown confrontation in Darfur and the Eastern Sudan, contrary to its official projections of constructive engagement, It is already involved in carrying out dozens of massive aerial sorties on civilian settlements in Darfur while the international community is inveigled into conceding that Khartoum, unquestionably possesses the genuine recipe for bringing both conflicts to a triumphantly negotiated conclusion.
The UN Security Council must come up with a plausible modus operandi and credible set of effective cards with teeth on the table, if the impending catastrophe in Darfur is to be averted at the eleventh hour. Contemplating sanctions will simply not work, given Khartoum rulers’ intransigence coupled with the inexhaustible backing from a number of countries including the racial cartel (Arab League). Lamentably, this Organisation fully bolsters Al Bashir’s Darfur Policy, for the simple and undeniable certainty that the affected Darfurians are of African origin, whereas the Janjaweed, the perpetrators of the heinous crimes and who are given leeway or licensed to rape loot and murder by the authorities of the Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) are of Arab extraction. This racial denigration of the Darfur people explicitly explains as to why Somalia has become one of the victims of ostracisation, in spite of its membership in the Arab League. The Somalis are dark skinned Africans just as the people of Darfur are. This fact eschews them from qualifying as members of the Organisation, though they share identical religious and cultural affinity with the Arab World, hitherto they are kept at bay when it comes to dealing with Arab affairs. No one in the Middle East is concerned with the plight of the Somalis in their sixteen-year futile quest for political stability.
The declaration by the SPLM Political Bureau of its support for the UN envisaged deployment of Peace Keepers in Darfur is a positive radical approach indispensable for sustainable peace in the war torn Darfur. The rebuff on Al Bashir’s warmongering mind-set towards the procrastination of the CPA’s execution by the members of the SPLM Political Bureau should be empathised and appreciated. The UN Security Council must hastily take Khartoum to task by crafting an effective resolution that calls for the deployment of its forces even without the consent of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party that solely opposes the implementation of the Security Council Resolution number 1706 and mulishly refuses to go along with any future planned deployment in Darfur.
Thousands of lives subjected to unwarranted and calculated risk surely outweighs the impractical concept of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, or the violation of territorial sacrosanctity of a UN member state. The National Congress Party will never see sense and be willing to consent to the UN deployment plan in Darfur.
Regrettably China, which for concealed voracity persistently, thwarts all efforts of the UN Security Council through wide of the mark application of its veto power to discipline Khartoum for its unorthodox conduct. Beijing still backs Al Bashir with unabated tenacity in the latter’s bid for Jihad against the UN. Beijing is in the forefront of Human Rights violations ranging from the 1989 Tiananmen Square theatre to supporting the National Islamic Front Party in Sudan in its previous campaigns against the SPLM/A in South Sudan until 2004. The rulers in China are infatuated with their repressive demeanour in cracking down the FALUN GONG movement. The Falun Gong has been the focus of international controversy since the despotic and atheistic regime in China began a nationwide suppression of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, given the regime’s athistic stance and animosity on any religion. The Chinese government claims to have banned the group for what it considers to be illegal activities. The Tibetans’ sense of national identity has also faced the wrath of the Chinese tyranical reign, exiling the DALAI LAMA and most of the Tibetan community members. Such appalling conduct ought to be halted and must never be exported to Sudan. The authorities in Beijing must jump on to the bandwagon of peace with the rest of the world and instantaneously refrain from the pursuit of parochial and tentative interest. Frustrating the spirit of the UN Security Council Resolution 1706 on Darfur would be a monumental political gaffe for the Chinese policy makers.
* Peter Lokarlo Marsu is based in Australia. He can be reached at [email protected]