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Sudan in Crisis
South Sudan is now independent, but its northern neighbor continues to press in an Islamist direction.
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And so it is today that activists in South Kordofan and Blue Nile point to the real solution required if Sudan is ever to move forward. In the words of Amar Amoun, a Nuban MP from South Kordofan, there must be a “democratic, secular Sudan where we all have rights.” Yet the international community at large seems unwilling to acknowledge the role of jihad theology and Arab supremacist attitudes behind Khartoum’s behavior.
In the meantime, where are the calls for a UN-mandated no-fly zone over South Kordofan and Blue Nile? Where are the demands for a NATO bombing campaign against Sudan’s armed forces? Answer: they do not exist.
Why? Because, unlike Gaddafi, Omar al-Bashir has not been abandoned by the Arab League, which gave him a red-carpet welcome at the group’s summit in Qatar in 2009; nor have members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which is increasingly replacing the Arab League as an inter-Arab political body, thought it necessary to denounce the Sudanese president. Such is the racist hypocrisy of the Arab governments, which have similarly failed to condemn the horrific treatment of black migrant workers in Libya at the hands of militias that were fighting against Gaddafi.
About the Author
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi is a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a student at Brasenose College, Oxford University. His website is http://www.aymennjawad.org.
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Intelligent Design| 11.1.11 @ 8:34AM
Meanwhile, Obama has spent $1.2 billion of our money to replace Qaddafi with Al Qaeda in Libya:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....house.html
Michael Tomlinson| 11.1.11 @ 8:37AM
Intelligent Design,
You NAILED it!!!!!!!!!!!
Day of new Sudanese Liberty| 11.5.11 @ 10:26PM
What are the prospects that the regime in Khartoum will fall to popular protests in the near future? How far will the NCP go to quell displays of popular discontent or combat protests? How much control does it have over the army if the party starts to face more opposition around Khartoum itself?
The country seems to be in a tragic escalating calamity. There are multiple insurgencies and the economy seems to be in desperate straits (and there is a huge debt).
The killings, ethnic cleansing, and threat of genocide should make this country a top priority on the U.N. Security Council.