Sudan’s NCP policy of brinkmanship is a road to ruin.
By Peter lokarlo Marsu
October 8, 2006 — Omar Ibrahim is again on stage for the second time, reiterating Khartoum’s declared penchant for ruining the CPA. This bellicose stance of the National Congress Party is moulding into a confrontational relationship with the SPLM and the government of South Sudan and the prospects for co-existence look sombre.
In his interview with the London-based Al-Sharq al-Awsat on 5 October, the deputy leader of the ruling National Congress Party stated the following: “If invading forces enter Sudan and the SPLM, the partner in government, welcomes them, there will be no national unity government and the Naivasha agreements will cease to exist.”
This statement emphatically demonstrates to the entire Sudanese people that the National Congress Party of Omar Al Bashir and Omar Ibrahim is pursuing a policy of brinkmanship in the country. The regime is on record for earlier administering genocide in South Sudan to accomplish its illusive goals of annihilating South Sudanese to occupy their lands. Khartoum had also militarily backed the notorious Uganda’s LRA rebels, It supplied arms to the Eastern Congolese rebels fighting against the government of Uganda, It attempted to change guards in Ndjamena following the recent failed coup attempt mounted by a combined forces of Janjaweed and Chadian insurgents. It sometime back backed Ethiopia to launch an attack on Eritrea. The list is endless.
Within the last three years the NCP had committed another genocide in the western State of Darfur, wiping out over 200,000 unarmed civilians and displacing nearly three million. With anticipated skirmishes between the government troops and the Eastern rebels in the making, the National Congress Party of Omar Al Bashir has become the most abhorrent political entity in the country and the entire African continent. Omar Al Bashir and Company is bent on ruining the moribund CPA that has already suffered premeditated neglect and emasculation.
The Government of South Sudan should not take the statement made by Omar Ibrahim reiterating the cancellation of the CPA document in the event of UN troops entering Darfur lightly. The Legislative Assembly in Juba should strongly denounce this outrageous and confrontational mind-set of the National Congress Party. Everyone should jump on board to deplore such banausic mentality. The government in Juba should brace up for any eventuality as soon as possible, albeit the NCP is simply a paper tiger.
The NCP is counting on Egypt’s military assistance. History testifies that they can hardly launch a war without some backing from those two staunch allies. Egypt must choose between supporting this international outcast, which is a liability to the region, and forfeit its future benefits or foster realistic and friendly posture and garner the accruing tangible gains in the near future. Beijing must acknowledge that Juba is going to have the final say in regards to the oil contracts and not Khartoum. Time is ripe for the Chinese policy makers to start to adjust their balance sheet items.
Admittedly the National Congress Party is leading the country to a catastrophic end. To salvage Sudan, and put it in the proper track, every political party should exert more effort to unseat the National Congress Party at the coming general electionsNCP must be defeated through the ballot box in a well-supervised and monitored elections and not through they way they came to power.
* The author is based in Australia. He can be reached at [email protected]