What is happening in Aljazera, due to this ongoing barbaric and brutal war, is part and parcel of what is happening in the entire parts of the country the only tiny exception is the Northern part of the country which is also on the brink of the catastrophic war. War is a bad thing, no doubt about that; whether it is taking place in Nuba Mountains, in Red Sea mountains, or Darfur mountains, or the Great Desert of Northern Sudan or the valleys of Blue Nile or the jungles of the South. Raping has been taking place since the independence of this country. Raping and killings are not a new phenomenon in Sudan. In the South there were touching raping and killing incidents. In Nuba Mountains there were raping and killing incidents as well. In the Blue Nile and Darfur Regions there were documented heartbreaking raping and killing cases. Raping and killing culture is alive and well in the Sudanese violent-conflict lexicon. Raping and killing culture is very alive in the Sudanese collective memory. It is an undeniable fact for any Sudanese layman and laywoman. We condemn the raping and killings that took place in Aljazira as well as in other parts of the country in the strongest possible terms and that the perpetrators must be held accountable and brought to book.
Raping is just a phenomenon, it is just one of the war manifestations, just a drop in a huge ocean if compared with the entire countrywide atrocities. Let us not look at raping in isolation of the entire tragic and heartbreaking episode of the ongoing war. Raping, in spite of its notoriety and barbarism, is just a tiny part of the catastrophic political landscape of this country since its independence. No war is a peaceful or pleasant war. War is a war. War means raping with impunity, it means killing with impunity, it means burning with impunity, it means bombarding with impunity, it means looting with impunity, it means sabotaging with impunity, it means maiming, war means extra-judicial executions with impunity, it means forced displacement, it means deserting your home villages and towns, it means taking refuge in other countries, it means family disintegration, war means social fabric and cohesion rupturing, it means food insecurity, it means famine and starvation, it means hunger, it means malnutrition, it means spreading of diseases, war means ethical corruption, it means financial corruption, war means administrative corruption, it means detentions, it means torturing with impunity, war means inflicting suffering on others with impunity, war means proliferation of all kinds of weapons. It means emergence of criminal gangs, it means emergence of drug dealers, it means safe haven and hiding places for the dangerous international terrorists, war means smearing human dignity with impunity, it means haphazard arrestments and imprisonment, it means martial laws and martial courts, it means erosion of state sovereignty and territory integrity, it means prevalence of hate speech and discourse, it means no access to good healthcare, it means no access to quality education, war means no access to quality drinking water, war means no access to good sanitation services and facilities. It means losing your means of livelihoods. It means losing your properties and assets. War is all that and more, war is a bad thing and must be stopped, those who are calling for war continuation will undoubtedly catch the hell for that. They will catch the hell for their block mindedness and rue the day they decided so.
Paradoxically, on the other hand, the Sudanese pseudo-politicians are very busy with accusations and counter-accusations, very busy with terribly demonizing each other, busy with vilifying each other, busy with incriminating each other, busy with turning any unturned stones to politically do away their political opponents, while turning deaf ears and blind eyes to the vulnerabilities and sufferings of the displaced people, and paying zero attention to the pains and hardship of their countrymen, countrywomen and children who are reeling under the scourge of this nonsensical war. The culture of lip-service, hypocrisy and yellow smiles is what they possess.
Unfortunately, any one in front of these amateur politicians and military junta is a traitor. President Alazhari was a traitor, president Aboud was a traitor, president Nimeri was a traitor, president Albashir was a traitor, John Garang was a traitor, Philip Abbas was a traitor, Derej was a traitor, Yussif Kowa was a traitor, Aturabi was a traitor Alsadig Almahadi was a traitor, Alhilou is a traitor, Abdu Alwahid Alnour is a traitor, the ex-prime minister, Mr. Hamadouk of Tagdum is a traitor, the current de facto president Mr. Burhan is a traitor, Kabbashi is a traitor, Yassir Alata is a traitor, Arkou Minawi is a traitor, Jibreel is a traitor, Ardoul is a traitor, Malik Agar is a traitor, Hemetti is a traitor, Tirik is a traitor, Messyria people are traitors, Fur are traitors, Nuba are traitors, Massalit are traitors, Baggar are traitors, Shawaga and Jaaleen are traitors, Fallata are traitors, Mr. Antonio Gutters, the Secretary General of the United Nations, is a traitor, IGAD members are traitors, African Union states are traitors, president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is a traitor, president William Ruto of Kenya is a traitor, president Paul Kagame of Rwanda is a traitor, president Ismail Omer Guelleh of Djibouti is a traitor, Mr. Antony J. Blinken, the United States secretary of state, is a traitor, Tom Perriello, the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan is a traitor, the traitors’ list can endlessly or infinitively go on and on and on. Nobody is not a traitor in the eyes of these Sudanese pseudo-politicians. Sudanese amateur politicians are very smart in depicting treason and demonization on whoever they hate or don’t like, but sarcastically they don’t have the substitutes, the loyalists or the patriots who can replace those traitors. Is that not a ridicule?
By God, who is not a traitor internally or externally so that he or she can be brought to Sudan to untie this Gordian knot and put these chaotic shambles in order? What on earth, do you, Sudanese people, want since you have gained your political independence? I sure you that even God Himself, if He came to Sudan, many of Sudanese people would not accept His Judgement. Sudan is a strange land with strange people, of a strange race, strange creatures, and strange kinds of beings walking upon two legs. Sudan is a country of 42 million plus amateur politicians with more than 400 political parties and revolutionary movements and more than 4000 civil society organizations, nevertheless they have miserably failed to make a genuine nation out of these strange creatures and beings.
Based on the above-mentioned miserable situations, is not an international intervention a feasible option and choice for Sudan and Sudanese citizens? It is just a naïve question on my part. It is just a humble question for thought before you label me a traitor. Assume that Chapter 7 was imposed on Sudan, just a supposition, would our situation be more miserable or worse than the current situation? It is just an innocent question before you depict me a traitor too. Let me rephrase my question in a different way; what is the most notorious situation or the worst state that Chapter 7 could create in Sudan in comparison with the current ongoing inhumane situation that Sudanese people are leading now? I just beg wise answers from wise people. Idiots’ answers are not permissible.
When national solution is not possible, international solution becomes possible and imperative. When the national offing doesn’t have the capacity to rescue the Sudanese from this catastrophic dilemma, the international offing does have the capacity and mechanisms to offer a solution. Sudanese citizens are not a monopoly to the amateur politicians and reckless military establishment. Enough is enough.
Mahjoub Saleem Gaddal/Kampala
6, November 2024
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