Sudan's Ongoing Agony
All seemed sweetness and light, months earlier when the vote took place in southern Sudan to secede. There was general agreement that there would henceforth be two Sudans, the north and the south. The north inhabited by Arab Sudanese, the south by black African Sudanese. Black African Sudanese like the Darfurians whom Khartoum launched wholesale misery upon.When the International Criminal Court indicted Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity for launching the Janjaweed militias upon Darfur's towns, villages and farms, creating hundreds of thousands of refugees, murdering thousands, raping tens of thousands of women and girls, he defiantly declared them delusional; he was no war criminal. He was settling an insurrection.
Omar al-Bashir's colleagues in the Arab League obviously agreed with him and welcomed him effusively to their meetings. No fear that his attendance would spark condemnations against his dreadful human rights violations at any of those gatherings. He was in good company, with Moammar Gadhafi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Assad.
Of course, oil-rich Sudan, split between north and south would present as a bit of a problem. The south, seceding, would have in its geography most of the fossil fuel benefactions. And the North could most certainly not countenance that miscarriage of ownership. Airstrikes have been taking place with Khartoum bombing South Kordofan on the south Sudan border.
A repeat of the civil war and the atrocities that took place during that war between 1983 and 2005 between the Sudan People's Liberation Army and the Sudanese government forces seems to be replaying itself in a contest of liberation and resource ownership.
Labels: Africa, Terrorism, Traditions, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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