Darfur patiently licking wounds
The powerful sector of the International
community is showing ridicule imbalances of interaction with the different
catastrophes that overshadowing several parts of the world. Darfur is a region
in the western part of Sudan and in the size of France with a mass of
populations nearly 8 million, which is more than the population of Libya. This
region historically was an independent state and has been appended to the currently
known (The Republic of Sudan) during the British colonization of (1898-1956).
Since 2003, the horrific irrational
regime in the Sudan unlikely seems is intending to record a new failure by
ignoring opportunity to heal up from the continued deteriorated relation with
its people in Darfur. Facts on the ground determine that the ongoing tragedy of
mass killing and humiliation of the innocent people constitute an ignominy and
shame on the face of humanity.
According to independent estimates
and UN institutions, more than 400 thousand died and around three million
forced to evacuate their burned villages to live in squalid camps, (an escape
from a frying pan into fire), while another 300 thousand fled as refugees to
the neighbouring Chad. It is a tragedy defined as the world's worst man made
catastrophe in this century, despite of all that, never stirred a strong
reaction as the situation in Libya.
This world's nightmare must have made
the leaders of the powerful countries to better learn own lessons instead of
repeating self-toiled experience, and never allow dictators to reproduce previous
crimes such as genocide, and enjoy immunity to escape punishment. Recalling that
noble saying, "Never happen again", reminds us of a fact that, despite
of being loudly clinking over the ears of the international community, but it has
happened again in Rwanda, in the former Yugoslavia and still continuing in Darfur.
The International Community led by
the United States of America, persuaded the Security Council to issue a bundle
of Resolutions in that regard, including
the indictment of the head of the state Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir with
genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and although that has
constituted a positive step, however it seems that all those resolutions are
still moaning and whining under the boots of the dictator, as to him said in a
public gathering in (El Fasher), the capital of north Darfur state “the International
Criminal Court (ICC) and its supporters are under my boots”, that was following
the declaration of the accusations and issuance of the warrant of arrest against
him in March 2009.
The International Community
represented in the Security Council, failed to practically impose its will to
stop that genocide, and the innocent people there are left to face their
inevitable fate to patiently lick their wounds, other independent opinions have
gone further to strip and describe such act as a deal or a compromise between
the International Community’s desire to succeed in bringing the South Sudan
Referendum to land safely to its pre-known destiny (South Sudan People Right) without
any impede or jeopardise from Al Bashir’s regime, and on the other hand turn a
blind eye in respect to the fake elections that the regime has conducted in
order to legitimise its unconstitutional coup, including a thorough
continuation of aggravating the tragedy in Darfur, as well as a reward in term
of freezing the threat of the ICC’s decision. A deal has no other meaning
except than the immolation with the blood of innocents.
Following the popular uprising
revolutions which is overwhelming the countries in the Middle East and the Mediterranean
Sea's south coast States, taking a closer look and analysis to the
international community's reactions, mere impartial views could conclude to
what extent has the international community revealed the facts of its own
interests and how these interests constitutes the magnitude of any military
intervention in favour of any party, as well as where and when.
A fair vision to compare between the
atrocities committed in Darfur by the ridicule named salvation government in
the Sudan under the leadership of the dictator Omar Hassan Ahmed Al Bashir, and
the ongoing Libyan conflict where casualties probably be less than 0.3% of what
has happened in Darfur, we realise and recognise how deep the deprivation of
the deem innocent people in Darfur which comes to express the deliberate
oppression they faced from the regime, and how painful the depression and let
down they gained from the International community. However it will remain a
fact that emancipation from the scourge of oppression is a responsibility of
the people of Darfur.
The prompt response to enforce the
two Security Council's Resolutions on Libya, and the instant commencement to
apply the no-fly zone and air raids in a period less than 24 hours following
the declaration of those Resolutions, could hardly be understood to have been
the only trigger that urged to respond to the distressed cry of the victims
there, or even a respond to the call of conscience, where the tragedy in Darfur
was terrible and the cry of innocents there was higher, nevertheless the
response was hollow and dimmed over time, or might have evaporated in the
sphere.
It would be a disgrace to humanity to
revive inhuman criterion to discriminate between human beings of Darfur and
those of Libya, or between a child's cry from Darfur and another from Libya while
world is struggling and pushing forward to safeguard human rights. Al though we emphasise that innocent people
in Libya or any other place deserve the right to be protected from oppression,
however throwing over our human emotions and interacting rationally, will
probably bring us all to see the naked elements that have governed the rushing
decision of the International Community’s military intervention in Libya, and
obscuring it from Darfur, that naked interest have removed the mask of the ugly
face of mankind.
Abdelgabar Dosa
03/04/2011
