The International Community is not the Answer
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By Salah Shuaib
The miserable general situations in which we live didn’t leave us with
a much confidence in the ability of the Great Powers, which are
allegedly leading the international community, to help resolve the
issues of coexistence the peoples of the third world suffer from for
centuries. The world order itself is dominated by imperial will of
these globally influential realms, which historically have acquired
logistical impacts to alone interpret what is politically suitable for
us.
Hence, this superpower domination over the weak states in our planet
contributes to the costly continuing crises of underdeveloped nations.
There can be no settlement of these deep-seated crises unless such
powerful states stop interfering in regional conflicts to attain their
interests, or reform the narrow ways they follow in the absence of the
entire peoples’ societal will.
What is happening in Sudan and South Sudan is evidence of the failure
of the United Nations to help resolve the dilemma of the historic
coexistence the two nations try to overcome. Rather, such so-called
helpful interventions of the superpower countries taken place now made
the situations in the two countries worse to an extent no one can
exactly describe.
The two camps of the globally dominating political forces are now
using the fanatic Islamism as a tool to disintegrate the local
situations of Sudan and South Sudan’s societies, where Khartoum’s
Islamic government is serving for the United States’ security
priorities and in the meantime cooperating with China and Russia for
gaining their regional objectives.
Realising all the international contradictions accompanying the period
after the end of the Cold War, the Sudanese Islamists were very smart
in using their deceptive mind to employ such two superpower camps to
build and consolidate their terrorising state. Thus, Sudanese
Islamists became able to devastate Sudanese unity so that they could
maintain a corrupt regime, which has been for nearly three decades an
entity suppressing Sudanese democratic dreams as well as sustaining
global terrorism.
This Islamist deceptive mind has succeeded in splitting Sudan to
dominate its northern part with political aggression. Concerning the
southern part, they succeeded in putting obstacles in the way of
building South Sudan by supporting those engaging in a military
opposition against Juba. Alas, throughout the years following the
secession of the south, the so-called international community has
watched how Khartoum’s Islamists have defied all steps taken by some
Western countries to stabilise the two nations.
The Obama administration, which came under the banner of change in US
policy, played a negative role in embracing the Islamists of Sudan and
their partners in the region. At the end of his term, Obama helped
Khartoum achieve a partial lifting of economic sanctions on the
country and urged his successor to completely lift the remaining
sanctions. At another level, Sudan’s Islamists have found an
opportunity to cooperate with Europe in security issues, although they
support terrorism in Africa and sympathise with global one.
Now, since Khartoum has achieved its international goals, which helped
it tear down the unity of southern Sudan, suppress political
opposition, violate human rights, destroy the social fabric in the
conflicted zones and tighten the grip on the country’s wealth, it
engages to be an active member of a US-led anti-ISIS alliance.
Moreover, Khartoum threatens through its leaders’ statements that it
will not seek to create a national political environment that may
attract the armed opposition battling in Darfur, South Kordofan and
Blue Nile.
Frankly, the only way to address the issues of co-existence in our
developing nations is to capture all opportunities for political
enlightenment, as a single, unifying avenue in raising political
awareness for the nationalities that form our states. The elites, who
rely entirely on the so-called international community, forgetting the
popular capabilities at home, are themselves part of the crisis, not
the solution.
As for the history of Sudan and South Sudan’s efforts to resolve our
societal crises, the dependence on the external factor was a great
illusion, which is proved by the critical situations in both
countries. Political enlightenment is difficult to achieve and needs
time, sacrifice and patience. But, there is no other way to reform
nation-building processes other than that enlightenment. Whatever we
rely on the outside factor alone, the harvest will be only mirage.
*The writer is a Sudanese journalist, he can be reached at [email protected]
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