Sudan’s NCP policies of divide and rule in Darfur
BY Omer Kabiir
February 10, 2010 — The recent barbaric attacks on the villages around west Jebel Marra that included areas of Boldong, kenega, Kutrum and Kuweila by the National Congress Party (NCP)and its allied Janjaweed Militias; caused killings of hundred of innocent civilians, looting of properties and massive displacement to Nertiti. In addition to sporadic attacks on civilians in different areas in Darfur, the latest of which, is yesterday attacks and burning of Hagar and Janoubiya IDPs camps in Kass, where 6 civilians were killed 22 injured and 18 others were taken alive as hostages their fate were unknown and the local market was looted and burned as well. Such attack proves that the Islamist regime in Khartoum is persistence on accomplishing its genocide plans to the last minute. Furthermore; one of the plans followed by the genocide regime is a use of the weaker among the freedom fighters to turn their weapon towards their own friends.
Unfortunately; last week; the regime in Khartoum succeeded to lure and assembled the teeth-less Fur tribe old leaders in Addis Ababa and instigated them against the active young leaders of Darfur who are fighting to bring change in Darfur and entire Sudan as well. Those traitors of their race and tools of the enemy are; Ex-Governor of Darfur region Ahmed Ibrahim Dirage, the Ex- Goveror of Darfur in the Government of former Prime Minster Al Sadig Al- Mahadi Dr. Tigani Seissa Mohamed Ateem, one of the founder of the National Islamic Front Dr. Iddris Yousif Ahmed, the defected Ex-SLM commander, Wali of west Darfur Abul Gasim Imam and the National Security Lt.General Mohamed Yousif Abdella.
The implicit objective of the National Congress Party is to curb the pushing of the young leaders who are looking for regime change in Sudan to establish secular liberal democratic Sudan where religion is clearly separated from the state. Because the money of Fur tribe conference in Addis Ababa was paid by the killer of Fur; Omer Al- Bashir therefore; when the meeting between crab leaders and Bashir was over upon his leaving, the President Advisor Gahazi Salah Eldeen without any reservation on a side talk said to Al- Bashir; “Look Mr. President, these drunken men are those who are looking forwards to rule Sudan”. He meant Ahmed Dirage who was swinging from side to side while he was greeting Al-Bashir; maybe he feared the Jalabi Al-Bashir not drunk as reported.
However; we believe Ghazi Salah Aldeen was right to play down with these shameless Fur tribe cliques; because for the following reasons:
Ahmed Dirage in 1990 when he was invited by the late chairman of the SPLM/A Dr. John Garang de Mabior to join his Movement, he frankly told the late Chairman of the SPLM/A that, using of the fire arms to obtain rights from the regime in Khartoum was a primitive idea. But, when the Darfurian brave son, the late freedom fighter Dawoud Yahya Bolad joined the ranks of the SPLM to spark a revolution in Darfur, Dirage joint Bolad in Egypt in March 1991 and agreed to assist him, on a ground that, if Dawoud succeeded with his revolution in Darfur, he will be the political leader of the revolution; and if he failed, there was nothing to lose. that is why he spent long years in exile, without achieving anything or being direct threat to Khartoum, because of his non believe in the armed struggle through risk taking.
Dr. Tigani sessy Mohamed Ateem, the Omma Party political exile, who one day denied his belonging to the Fur tribe by reasoning that his late grandfather being a head of Fur tribe native administration, was through being a third party after the tribe dispute on Shartaiship among themselves. 1986 during his tenure as Governor of Darfur under the rule of former Prime Minster Al-Sadig Al-Mahadi; when the villages were burned by the Janjaweed, that included the home village of Dirage named Kargulo-and the brother in- law of Dirage, the Shartai Al-Tahir Ahmed Shatta and ten other famous individuals in the area were killed; Sessy vehemently denied on the media that there is no any kind of tribal conflict between the Arabs and the Fur tribe in the Region. Instead, he accused the opposition parties of that time of inciting rumours to discredit the Government of his Umma Party and their leader Alsadig Al- Mahdi.
Regarding, Dr. Idriss Yousif and Mohamed Yousif Abdalla who worked hand in hand to commit the genocide on their own people, but for sure the victims of the genocide have detailed accounts of their doings and immediately after the ICC finished its work with the perpetrators. The powerful list of shame will be released to the genocide victims, including names of those who assisted the regime by one way or another to commit its crimes. All in all; at that time, their fate will be decided by the victims.
On the other hands, the people of Darfur are fully aware that, the so-called Addis Ababa preparatory gathering of the Fur tribe leader that took place between 25th to 27th of January 2010, along with the National Congress Party Organizations which supported and financed it, such as Humanity United, and the Inter Africa Group, are the manufacturing of the Sudanese Security apparatus, seeking an exit to Al-Bashir, through pardons of stooges and traitors. Sadly such ghost Security Originations are under direct supervision of the U.S Special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration, who vomits lava of hatred to change the SLM chairman Abdul Wahid. The objectives of Gration behind blessing and covering up to the Government of Sudan to kill and displace civilians, is to twist the hand of the chairman of the SLM to go for negotiated table while his people are dying. However; the U.S Envoy has forgotten the fact that, the will of the people cannot and will not be defeated. That is why SLM/A withstood countless splits, nevertheless; it’s going from strength to strength, and the people of Darfur whom Gration today shamelessly and provocatively legalizing their killings, one day will be a free nation.
The author is a post graduate student, Al Azhar University, Cairo. He can be reached at [email protected]
Master
Rhetoric and Reality. The Failure to Resolve the Darfur Sudan Conflict
From Alex de Waal’s blog Making Sense of Sudan
The Strife Inside the SLA
By Julie Flint
Monday, February 1st, 2010
The difficulties facing the Doha peace talks—highlighted in my report for the Small Arms Survey: Rhetoric and Reality. The Failure to Resolve the Darfur Conflict—have been starkly illustrated as meetings resume in Doha between mediators and representatives of some of the Darfur armed movements. (Planned talks between the movements and civil society have been postponed, apparently indefinitely, at the insistence of JEM.)
Since 5 January, rival factions of SLA-Abdul Wahid have been fighting each other in Jebel Marra. The fighting, which has been largely unreported, has caused civilians to flee from a number of villages in the south of the mountains, towards Nyertiti and Kass. There are fears that the violence, which has many fault lines, too complicated to explain in this short posting, could have repercussions among civilians in IDP camps where SLA-Abdul Wahid has a hold.
It will be impossible to reach a sustainable settlement to the simmering but still-unresolved conflict in Darfur, regardless of anything the government does or does not do, while the ‘revolution’ of 2003 is eating itself.
The intra-SLA fighting has claimed the lives of a number of commanders critical of the SLA Chairman, his decision to reside in France rather than Darfur, and his refusal both to participate in the Doha process and to seek reconciliation in the SLA faction he leads. Some of the commanders have died in armed clashes; others have perished in ambushes—most recently, a commander from Kass, Mohamed Adam ‘Shamba’, whose car was reportedly attacked with rocket-propelled grenades in Jebel Marra on 26 January.
The long-standing tensions within SLA-AW over Abdul Wahid’s management surfaced dramatically (albeit behind closed doors) in the middle of 2009 when senior SLA commanders—including several of those considered most loyal to Abdul Wahid—‘challenged him for 10 days’, in the words of one of those present, at a capacity-building workshop in Switzerland. The chief of staff of the SLA, Yousif Ahmad Yousif ‘Karjakola’, went as far as to call the SLA chairman incompetent. Others complained about a lack of support, including salaries and military supplies, and the refusal to participate in the internationally-mediated peace process led by Djibril Bassole.
The spark to January’s mini-war appears to have been the capture of Karjakola by JEM in November 2009 as he returned to Darfur from Chad. Abdul Wahid’s critics allege that JEM acted at the instigation of the SLA Chairman, and are super-critical of the US special envoy, Gen. Scott Gration, for not seeking the release of a senior commander who defied Abdul Wahid’s rejectionism and favoured participating in the peace process. After Karjakola’s arrest, I received calls from SLA commanders in Darfur claiming that they have evidence of a ‘hit list’ (reportedly backed by serious money) of pro-peace reformers. I am aware that Abdul Wahid loyalists have made similar claims to others, but have no details of their claims. The list is said to include several SLA leaders in the Ain Siro area—including Ali Haroun, a law graduate of Khartoum University and responsible for justice in the SLA, and Suleiman Sakerey, the highest military commander in Ain Siro. Both met the AU High-Level Panel on Darfur in June last year.
Ain Siro has been untouched by the factional fighting and serious human rights abuses that have cast such a cloud over some rebel-controlled areas. But it has a history of problems with the SLA leadership in Jebel Marra. A number of commanders from Ain Siro were ‘arrested’ and taken to Jebel Marra, Abdul Wahid’s headquarters, late in 2007 as they gave voice to growing popular demand from the field for reform of the movement that Abdul Wahid leads from the diaspora. A confidential UN report said the Ain Siro group were accused of ‘attempting to divide the movement’. During the group’s detention in Jebel Marra, a university companion of Ali Haroun, Abdalla Mohamed, was kidnapped with his bodyguard, Hamadi, by masked men from the centre of Deribat, the SLA stronghold where the Ain Siro group was being held. (Abdalla’s body was later found three months later, hanged, in a village in Jebel Marra. Hamadi’s body was found in the same village, shot in the back.) I personally went to Paris to ask Abdul Wahid for guarantees for the safety of the Ain Siro group. He assured me they would come to no harm, and they were indeed released—albeit many months later. Abdul Wahid claimed that Abdalla Mohamed had been seized, from the market in Deribat, by ‘janjaweed’. I do not know Deribat. I leave it to those who do to judge whether ‘janjaweed’ could have got into the centre of the town, and out again, without a fight.
On 5 January this year, a senior SLA commander critical of Abdul Wahid and supportive of the peace process, Abdalla Abaker, was shot dead by Abdul Wahid loyalists at a checkpoint in Jebel Marra. Abdalla’s supporters subsequently attacked and looted the homes of a number of commanders considered to be Abdul Wahid loyalists, setting in motion a chain of attack and counter-attack that will continue until the root causes of the problem are resolved—most importantly the lack of structures, and accountability, in Jebel Marra.
The people of Darfur—those stuck in wretched camps and those still clinging to the countryside so utterly devastated by Khartoum’s criminal counter-insurgency—deserve better leadership than this. I have many reports of, and testimony to, the latest clashes and killings. It is a pity that none of this reaches the ‘ordinary’ people of Darfur, to enable them to judge for themselves who they want to represent them and speak on their behalf. A little naming and shaming, with dispassionate, detailed reporting of what exactly is going on—and why—might help Darfurians to find a voice of their own that is informed by fact rather than internet rumour and propaganda.
DASODIKO
Sudan’s NCP policies of divide and rule in Darfur
I wish if master Gration has his own opinion rather than quoting Flint or the fake De, Waal who himslef faiked to resolve Somalia problem where he is graduated from it as an expert on affairs of horn of Africa. The type of peace Flint is talking about is the same peace she and Alex fooled with it Mini Minawi. I wish Flint or even America should have written something about the bruttal killing of NCP to the sick commanders of Mini Minawi in Khartoum like insects. I was there he was the only person who cried for himself even the American de Affairs at that time closed his phone before him according to Minawi . The on going killing in the field is created by those who want Wahid to go to Doha. This will never ever happen even if Wahid is left alone. Gration please keep on, your call for elections pospondment will change nothing on the ground , you will go and the problem of Darfur will stay untill its resolved the way people of Darfur want it. The Sudanese poor people oil money paid for you to write against the will of people of Darfur or plot against them to be killed; but one day you will vomit it. Let us wait and see who will win!
telfajbago
Sudan’s NCP policies of divide and rule in Darfur
To: Alex and Flint.
Stop writing these rubbish about the Darfurian liberation.Is it not enough the mess you brought to the people of Darfur after you intentionally misadvised the International community and accordingly the DPA was signed? DO you know that you are resposible for the lost of lives that accompanied the signing of the DPA?
Shamefully,instead of appologising to the Darfurian in a public for what you did,today;you are conducting a world-wide compaign to distort the image of the chairman of the SLM and portrait him as hoodlum rather than revolutionary and Iam sure you will be defeated be the will of the masses.Furthermore, I used to tell people that, the struggle of the Darfurian people is like our Darfurian grass land,where we herded goats and sheep as boys.A huge fire roar over it and the land looks black and dead,but immediately after the first rain,the grass springs up more luxurious than ever and the goat and sheep faten,NO FIRE PASSING OVER THE SLM WILL DESTROY THE SEEDS OF THE DARFURIAN PEOPLE VICTORIOUS DETERMINATION. Be it Gration’s factions,the manufactured SLM leaders or even the attacks on civilians and the IDPs will break the bone of this struggle . Lastly, we the genocide survivors are not fighting to see this war through,rather than to do our bit and leave the rest to generations to come until our goals are fully achieved.