Dear Editor,
No one can underestimates your commitment to feed and inform Sudanese worldwide about issues back home. Because of that, I hope you will open, review and post my opinion article; The Khartoum Blood: Death Situation in the Southern Sudan on your website attached. You can reach me at: alierjohn@yahoo.com, or phone 817-685-8467. I appreciate your time. The opinions expressed in this article are solely mine.
Sincerely,
John G Alier
By John G Alier
His administration is interested in gaining a Southern land more than people’s lives though he was on the right path when he signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. Accordingly, due to unsettled CPA protocols, Bashir is heading to dismantling of the CPA frameworks and enslavement of Southerners again as Nimeiri had done in the name of Allah of Islam. To achieve his vision, he has rallied Arab’s allies like Iran, Egypt, and China to support him in ideas and military power for his forced unity of the Sudan.
His administration, Libya, and Egypt have separately aired out that the South will be weak if it becomes an independent state. This remark is not true because right now the current generation of the South Region has huge intellectuals than ever before. So, if Southern intellectuals like Dr Lam Akol opted wavering on the Southern issues, they are no big deal. And one thing that Bashir’s administration did not know after the death of Dr John Garang is unity of the Southern masses to pursue their “long awaited interest and freedom”. Interest is pursuing of what you want to do best while freedom is lack of fear in your decision process and presence of choices when undertaking your wants. All these two have been denied for so long to marginalised citizens of the Sudan. Therefore, as unexpected outcome of separation is eminent for the Southern masses, Bashir’s administration is working hard to inflict high rate of death of in the Southern Region to expose weakness and reduction in number of people by three ways: forced unity, secret money and killing of slave with slave. The effect is on the South because its residents are forced to bully one another in vain. Whoever will be left will deal with him tooth with tooth to gain land for Arabs at last.
Khartoum’s administration has not taken off the table use of force if Southern masses choose separation for their independence rather than tricky and unattractive unity. Bashir has invested heavily in boosting up his military arsenals. One evidence is the manufacturing of the military jets for the first time in the Sudan. In knowing that the South has organized forces, he intends to use sophisticated weapons to kill and terrorise Southerners in time due.
Secondly, his allies with Iran and other Arab nations match their contribution militarily in the near future since they are (akuan) brothers of Islam. Also it is surprising to many Sudanese to see the Shites connected with Iran religion show up in Khartoum this year for the first time. If Iran is not on Bashir’s side, its leader could not have said on Palestine Day that Sudan is being oppressed, assumable by Southerners with their friends.
Lastly, the purpose of force is to get land. If not why does he need a region that does not want his region? His region serves Arab interests while South and other marginalised areas long to be Africans. If he wants unity, Arabs should adapt to African styles since Africans are natives. Bashir’s interest of land is not in one place, he is settling many Muslims in Darfur now as it was noticed by UN agencies some time back in order to increase its population and forces. Bashir’s vision is the death of innocent people (women, children, elderly, and unarmed civilians) of the Southern Region by use of force to get land.
Khartoum’s administration is very canny in secret money cold blood killing of people in the Sudan while blindfolding outside world not to enter in the old tactic of “Sudanese affairs”. To achieve secret killing, his administration uses secret money to hire militias to execute orders in a hidden agenda of Islam.
During the Civil War of 1983, he had used people like Alihag to lure Southerners to his side through money. When he finds money hungry Southerners, he converts them to Islam or trains them as militias or recruits them to join National Islamic Front party. After seeing collaboration and loyalty from these persons, he sends them locally to go, kill, and make converts from communities that safeguard interest and freedom of Southerners. It is up to Southern converts to evaluate their purpose of killing other Southerners; is it to gain what? If it is money or whatever motive, they should not allow it to drive Khartoum’s intentions. If I were given money as a Southerner to carry out such “dirty tactic”, I would use it and not raise my hand to kill a Southerner.
This strategy was obvious in 2003 Darfur, and 1991 Bor Massacres. The Janjaweed and the breakaway Nasir’s Faction were used against innocent Southerners. And I give Dr Riek Machar credit for making a u-turn earlier from these satanic tactics of Bashir. The agencies that carry out this satanic vision are popular/public order police (POP), popular defense force, advisers, and so called intelligent branch of Al Bashir’s administration. Right now these agencies have already initiated third war by igniting some Nuer members to attack Jieng residents at their dwellings for no reason. Bashir wants Jieng and Nuer to kill each other so that he can get empty land. When blood pours out, the dogs laugh.
Contrary, although the CPA has brought tranquility to most parts of the Sudan, the South is less safe than during war and guest what? Bashir’s allies in the South during war are now on active duties secretly and locally through dirty money while the Southern allies in the North are peaceful with their neighbors. It does not require high math to figure out why some Murle of Pibor and Nuer of Lou attacked and killed Akobo and Bor residents frequently for uncommon causes if al Bashir’s militias are not on the loose. These killers are not carnivals to reduce their hunger with human bodies but they are tools of criminals. And it does not mean that their communities are entirely bad onions; however, the killers simply have upper hands. Witnesses can rule out that they have some active members of NIF/NCP. All Bashir wants is to empty the South by using any means such as money.
Before al Bashir’s administration, at the beginning of the 1983 civil war, people of the South were branded as “Slaves or Abit” by Khartoum authorities either in the media or public gathering. This barbaric branding term fueled the Southerners struggle with their friends of Blue Nile, Nubians, Easterners and others. On the other hand, Bashir intensified shading of cold blood death in the areas that struggle for their interest and freedom. All in all, the game is “killing of slave with slave” with Bashir’s agencies driving it behind the scene to “reduce the Southern population” since people died on both sides of the conflict.
In my opinion if I were a Southern leader in this mess, I could adopt protecting innocent lives from killers even if the Southern soldiers would be in danger. I could even constitutionally put a state area under a control of a military command for one to two years in order to curve out triangle of death. If those killers are not confronted by legitimate forces, they will take chance to breed to extend that no one will control their actions later. Security or safety comes first before peace. The shedding of blood has reached to lose of more than three million lives in the Sudan and Bashir’s blood thirst is not over yet.
He will realize it when it costs him “dearly”. He is now wavering on the CPA implementation since his signatures and current actions on the CPA do not match. A leader is trusted and honored if his actions and words go together but Mr Bashir is not trusted on both. By the way there is only one life per each one on earth at one time and death is once and for all. All living things die but mountains and the Nile River remain. In his decisions and actions, Bashir has a red hand in the death of innocents in the Sudan. Bashir continues to treat Southerners as infidels or just slaves used to kill one another while most of them have “complete faith in Christ” as the only Savior.
Khartoum’s thirst for death of the Sudan citizens will not end until the world authorities and Sudanese collectively or separately see it closely. Khartoum administration has history of covering up Islamisation, oppression, and Arabisation of citizens in the name of the nation unity. It uses and enforces strategies of forced unity; secrete militias, and enslavement of non Arabs behind closed doors.
Bashir runs the country by foreign ideas rather than indigenous influence. To achieve these goals, Khartoum has signed military equipment contracts that cover up to 25 years with foreign allies of his government. This kind of investment keeps showing up in Khartoum’s rigid neck to implement the CPA orderly. Bashir believes in military power because he seems not to be satisfied with death. A doctor cannot cover up a wound with unaired bandage and hope to that the wound heals. Bashir should not blame marginalised masses as non unionists.
If Bashir really wants unity of the country, he should first get rid of unattractive things like Sharia laws, dictatorship, foreign ideologies, shying away from people’s rights, and Arabisation of citizens from a nucleus. Sudan’s unity rests on giving choices of free willingness to co-exist from the Regions together with their citizens so that unity becomes attractive for there is no such history before; otherwise, the old deep and long wounds will not be healed by intimidation and more blood shedding in the current death situation in South Sudan.
John G Alier lives in Texas and can be reached at: alierjohn@yahoo.com