Bashir says Western silence over Nigeria killings shows bias against Muslims
February 15, 2010 (KHARTOUM) –The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir accused the international community of turning a blind eye to killings uncovered in Nigeria of members of a religious group saying it shows bias against Muslims.
Boko Haram is an organization which opposes Western education and demands the adoption of Islamic Shari’a law in all of Nigeria. In July 2009 the group staged attacks in the northeastern city of Bauchi after the arrest of some of its members. More than 50 people were killed and over 100 arrested.
Bashir speaking last Saturday before thousands of his party’s supporters in the inauguration of his elections campaign condemned what he described as silence of the Western world on Nigeria’s killings.
Al-Jazeera website quoted the Sudanese president in this unusual reference to a fellow African nation, as saying that this stance could only be explained by the fact that the victims are Muslims.
The Sudanese head of state stands accused of war crimes in the Western region of Darfur and an arrest warrant is issued for him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) forcing him to turn down invitations from Rome Statute signatories including Nigeria last October.
International experts say 300,000 people have died and more than 2.5 million have been driven from their homes in the remote western region since mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the government in 2003. Khartoum puts the death toll at 10,000.
The victims of the Darfur conflict are primarily from the African tribes of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa who are also Muslims.
It remains to be seen what Nigeria’s reaction to Bashir’s statements would be. Relations between the two countries took a downturn last October when Sudanese authorities prevented a plane carrying Senate president David Mark from landing despite having received prior clearance.
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Dinka Boy
Bashir says Western silence over Nigeria killings shows bias against Muslims
These Sharia law is destruction especially when Muslim want it to be impose to African countries because the law is very restictive to non-muslim.
Please Bashier, Sharia law is one of the major cause of South-North war.
If your group still incisted practicing sharia law in Nigeria,then there will be war in Nigeria like in Sudan. Please Sharia law must be abolish when the country in mixed of Christians and muslim.
David_N
Bashir says Western silence over Nigeria killings shows bias against Muslims
Mr.Al-Bashier, your spoken tribal language of Jaari tribes are called Niger-Khodofan dialects which has also widely spoken with entire equatorial West African regions, included Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and many of West African regions.
So, I understand why you defends on your own fellow tribal peoples!
The Khartoum spoken diarects considers Bantu family, that’s why Bashier defends his peoples, and also he looks like as well as from West Africa, that may seems his tribal ancestors came from there.
Kideopo Boy
Bashir says Western silence over Nigeria killings shows bias against Muslims
It’s really something funny to hear President Omer Al Bashir criticing the western world about the Nigerians Muslims. What is Omer Bashir and his Janjaweed militias doing to the Sudan Muslims in Dafur?? Omer is first to apologize to the International Community and to the Sudanese people at large especially the Dafurian for what he did and still doing in Dafur.
How can people listern to you Omer when your own people (Muslims) are being murdered in your eyes and you start to talk of sympathy to other muslims out of Sudan. Are the Nigerians, Palestinians etc muslims more valuable than the Sudanese? Let’s clean our houses first before we talk of some body house.
kitir
Bashir says Western silence over Nigeria killings shows bias against Muslims
It ridiculous that , Elbashir blame the international community for doing nothing face to atrocities committed by the Nigerian Police against civilians. Actually ,the images of the victims aired by the Aljazeera channel , choked every individual whatever his convictions .El basher attempts to use this event for political propaganda to attract the Sudanese votes, means a provocative move for everybody knows who Elbashir and his shameful, heinous ,discriminative crime against children and women in Darfur .. yes, what happened in Nigeria was absolutely intolerable, but Elbashir is not well placed to comment on such issues , since his the only president in world, challenging the international justice and escaping from it.. its very unfortunate statements for the genocidaire El basher.