The 24th anniversary of Sudan Islamic coup
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
June 26,2013 - In remembrance of the fateful coup d’état, all the
components of the Sudanese people will join the ranks in the National
Campaign to Topple the National Congress Party (NCP) regime.
Ironically, news media reported that the Egyptian youth have planned
to end the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, led by Mohamed Morsi on
June 30, 2013. Furthermore, they have amassed fifteen million
signatures for it. Analysts say the Sudanese were more in need to take
that step to uproot the obnoxious regime of the (NCP) on the very day.
The NCP regime lived ruling Sudan with an iron fist for quarter of a
century, destroyed, fragmented Sudan, and killed its inhabitants under
the auspices of the Génocidaire fugitive from international justice
Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir.
As of Sunday 30 June 2013, twenty-four odd lean years have passed on
the peoples of the country once dubbed as the “Country of a million
square miles. Sadly, the very people have been languishing under the
autocratic authoritarian regime of multitude titles the Muslim
Brotherhood (MB), Islamic Charter Front (ICF), National Islamic Front
(NIF), National Congress Party (NCP) and Popular Congress Party (PCP).
No one of the foregoing names reflects the true meaning for which
named by or suggested. A name that does not indicate the meaning of
the named…as the popular saying goes! The NIF coup d’état on the
morning of Friday, June 30, 1989 was neither a real test of a credible
democratized Islamic movement nor a faithful belief in peaceful
exchange of power through transparent, fair and free choice general
elections. Their claim was a mere hollow rhetoric statement wrapped in
guile and cunning. In addition, unfortunate for the peoples of Sudan
that the leaders of the NIF have made Sudan a laboratory to test
Islamic rule or what they nicknamed “the implementation of the
Civilisation Project and Apostolic Orientation.” That turned out to be
a fiasco an Islamist project without possessing the necessary
intellectual vision and/or a qualified staff for the application of
the alleged scheme. Moreover, the band of the putschists did not
realise the winds of contemporary changes that affected the Sudanese
societies. Furthermore, they dismissed the fact that Sudan is a very
complex country with a vast area extending into the depth of African
continent and the Arab region with cultural diversity, besides its
strategic geographical location.
Dr. Haidar Ibrahim, a Sudanese scholar, has rightfully pointed out in
his treasured book entitled (the Fall of the Cultural Orientation
Project in Sudan) that the NIF putschists initially found themselves
confronted by questions to give plausible answers for the
justification to resort to a coup d’état against a political system
that they are an integral part of it. They got fifty-two (52) deputies
in the parliament of (1986, 1989) out of the 301 deputies. They
participated in more than one formation of a coalition government.
Moreover, they held sovereign ministerial positions. Dr. Ibrahim added
saying that the NIF clique resorted to circumstantial reasons that
necessitated their implementation of the ill-fated military coup. The
strategic goal of the coup initially was to help application of their
ideological programme of the Islamic movement through assuming power;
given the failure and inability of the democratic system to fit the
circumstances of the Sudan! And the second reason was disclosed at the
outset which was the application of Islamic Shari’a Law and the
establishment of an Islamic regime, referred to as the Islamic
Civilisational Project and the Apostolic Orientation as a substitute
for the Secular Project; a Comprehensive Islamic Guidance. Moreover,
they claimed that by doing so they would enable the Islamic State to
(make) the individual Muslim and formulate his thoughts, and (reform)
his behaviour and the behaviour of the whole community in Toto upside
down. Nevertheless, the fundamental goal of the NIF for the coup was
‘Rapid Gain of Wealth and absolute Power’. They found the
justification through their own version of interpretation of the Holy
Qur’an of the term “Empowerment”. Instead of the true Qur’anic meaning
of (who, if We give them Authority in the Land, establish regular
prayer and Charity, and ordered the Promotion of Virtue and forbid
what is Evil, and God, the End of things and Decision of All matters).
Thus, we find that a large proportion of the leaders of the ruling
regime of the NCP are from poor backgrounds in the communities they
grew up. This phenomenon seems to have played as a major factor behind
their greed for acquisition of quick riches of money and real estate,
by all means, in particular through corruption that characterised the
affiliates of the infamous NIF. As they say in the proverbial adage:
“Don’t expect vanity in those who starved and got filled; because
goodness/morality has never been in them before they acquired the
Grace at no time they anticipated before or was part of their dreamed.
Maybe, it was part of their wishes and daydreaming! The NCP elements
in view to feelings of inferiority complex adopted Arab ethnicity
based on racial supremacy on other Sudanese components. This is in
spite of their dark/black skin colour, snub nose, and ruggedness of
lips, shaggy hair and the African/Negroid features that expose their
lies. Moreover, they considered any demand by opponents for wealth
sharing and political power sharing as crossing the red lines. The
latter was the main reason for them to declare and wage the proxy war
on the people of Darfur. They exploited members of some Arabised
Darfuri tribal groups as tools for killing fellow citizens in the name
of their own version of fundamentalist ‘Islam’. Islam is NOT a
religion of extremism. Allah (SHWT) says: “He/She…Whosoever kills a
soul, an innocent human being, it shall be as if he has slain/ killed
all mankind, and whosoever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he
had saved the life of all mankind entirely…”Qur’an Sura5; al-Ma’idah:
iya 32.
The Sudanese people in the era of the ill-fated NIF reign have
witnessed the woes of a grotesque dark chapter in human history. The
NCP cliques because they assume to have nothing to lose except their
position in power, everything for them is negotiable, even the land of
the country itself. They continued waging war against the Sudanese
people in Darfur, Blue Nile State and the Nubba Mountains since their
assumption of power through the 1989 coup d’état. The NIF/NCP failed
to achieve a society of unity, peace and justice in Sudan.
The people of Darfur co-existed peacefully with each other for
hundreds of years until when the supremacist NIF regime set a racial
trap in Darfur, convincing the leaders of the Arabised tribes that the
African tribes (Zurga) have determined to rid of them unless they
stand on its side. Thus, the Islamism regime has given the conflict in
Darfur racial and ethnic dimension, unlike the south of Sudan conflict
where the factor of religion exploited; Darfuris are all devout
Muslims.
After failing to quell the Darfuri rebellion, the GoS resorted to
punish the civilian population by resorting to the scorched earth
approach committing the most heinous crimes the world witnessed 10
years after the Rwandan genocide. Khartoum still keeps beating the
drum of war in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile States. However,
the collective efforts of the political opposition, SRF, people of
Sudan and all the activist groups will bring justice by toppling the
NCP regime and put an end to war in Sudan finally.
Al-Bashir’s regime has become like a drowning man who is trying to
clutch at a straw to save him from his inevitable fate but the crises
of his own making besiege him from everywhere. Khartoum has gone
further to play its usual scorched cards trying to impose Islamic
religion and Arabic culture on some citizens of Southern Kordofan in
the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile in Ingasana who prefer secularism and
local cultures instead. The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) armed
opposition group, no longer trusts Omer al-Bashir given his abrogation
of signed covenants on several previous agreements.
The end of the era of the NCP at the hands of the (SRF) rebels and the
National Consensus Forces (NCF) opposition parties and civil society
organizations have become close, just around the corner. Sudan without
the NCP regime would enjoy a perfect democratic system as stated in
the Charter of the New Dawn (CND). The Sudan’s opposition calls for a
new system of governance that would guarantee the achievement of just
and comprehensive peace, stability and complete democratic
transformation.
By the twenty-fourth anniversary of the ill-fated NIF coup Sudan is in
fragility, failure and collapse. Whatever it takes, there is no escape
from toppling the regime chaired by Omer al-Bashir.
Islam is the majority religion in Sudan, but no one can impose a
theocratic state by force on the country’s multi-ethnic and diverse
cultures and different ideologies and varied aspirations!
Human history chronicles told us about the tragedies perpetrated and
the most egregious crimes committed in the name of religion, under the
guise of virtue across time. This has been the case in the NCP Islamic
reign of Sudan.
The Sudanese people could not be able to breathe peace unless this
Islamic fundamentalist regime is up rooted. The SRF alliance of the
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the factions of Sudan Liberation
Movement (SLM) led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur (SLM-AW) and Minni Minnawi
(SLM-MM) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N)
is poised for ousting the NCP regime. The SRF would opt for toppling
rather than waiting for the regime to reform itself; given the fact
that the fundamentalist Islamist entity is beyond corrigibility! SRF
will continue fighting for the rights of marginalized people of Sudan.
The SRF in coalition with the Sudanese opposition groups is fighting
for the rights of all the people of the Sudanese homeland and Not Only
for the pulverized people of Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile. The
SRF, National Consensus Forces (NCF), youth, and civil society
organisations, women groups, students unions, trade unions as well as
patriotic members of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are working for
democratic change. Twenty-four years of oppression and killings are
too long... Let us together topple the NCP regime today before
tomorrow and throw it into the history dustbin. We need to quote
Martín Luther King, Jr. “Freedom is never given by the oppressor; it
must be demanded by the oppressed”.
The divided international community on the Sudanese peoples cause
required to put Sudan back on the map and refrain from supporting the
NCP regime. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The
UN, AU, League of Arab Countries, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
should help construct a comprehensive peace process for all of Sudan
rather than promote the regional piecemeal peace deals.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is the Deputy Chairman of the General Congress
for Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). He can be reached at
[email protected]
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