Paradox of Darfur’s arm collections campaign
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
This is a review article. The restive region of Darfur in western
sudan is no stranger for the NCP regime‘s unabated targeting. This
time the regime decided to declare a frenzied campaign to collect arms
from the Sudanese civilians in the region, who have suffocated woes of
endless civil wars of attrition. The purpose of the term review study
is to look at what was recently written about the intention of the
National Congress Party (NCP) regime’s timing to collect weapons from
the citizens of Sudan in the Darfur region to address some of the
written views on this subject so far.
People wonder and ask the President of the regime of the (NCP), Omar
Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, as to which one is of a top priority at this
very time, the cholera epidemic that has spread throughout Sudan and
hit eleven states or the arms collection campaign in the Darfur
region? The current situation so-called arms collection is threatening
fierce tribal war woes and causing bitterness among the regime’s two
militias groups led by Musa Hilal, leader of the Border Guards Forces
(BGF) and Muhammad Hamdan Dogolo Hamedti, head of the Rapid Support
Forces (RSF). Omar Bashir and his entourage, led by his Janjaweed Vice
President Hassabo Abdul Rahman, remain blind and live in the darkness
of their regime, which has failed to properly manage the country and
its people. The elements of this regime seem suffering from a syndrome
of Immunity against learning from deadly repeated mistakes despite the
rule of three lean decades. We seek refuge and resort to God from the
evils of the elements in the ruling regime of the (NCP) and their
inhumane feelings towards the people of Sudan generally and to the
people of Sudan in Darfur in particular.
Furthermore, it was a priority that the (NCP) regime sought to address
the floods that swept through Sudan, including Khartoum International
Airport, and made the planes sink into the mud! There are lots issues
of important priority in Sudan that needs to be addressed, but Omar
al-Bashir has chosen instead the awesome intertribal warfare of a
catastrophic apocalyptic scale.
As for saying that the source of arms in Darfur is the regime in
Khartoum comes from the interest of the regime in weapons, which led
to the use of Iran and North Korea in developing its program aimed at
developing the manufacture of weapons locally and then the
establishment of the Yarmouk factory bombed by Israeli air force. Iran
played a major role in the manufacture of Sudanese weapons.
Observes ask as to why the bombing of the Yarmouk factory in Sudan and
why the Israeli attempted to weaken Khartoum militarily? The possible
answer is that the Yarmouk factory bombardment in the Sudanese capital
Khartoum targeted by Israel for an alleged sophisticated weapons
shipments was underway at the time.
The Yarmouk military complex located near Khartoum, which was bombed
by four Israeli warplanes after 5 minutes on midnight on Oct. 24, 2012
was finally producing Iranian Shihab-type surface-to-surface ballistic
missiles under a license from Tehran, military and intelligence
sources told the Israeli website Deepak Vaile. But the sources of
Western intelligence did not specify what kind of Shahab missiles
produced by Sudan ... But it is believed that the purpose of the
production of the Yarmouk plant is to serve Iran’s strategic stockpile
of these missiles in the event of ballistic arsenal suffered an
Israeli air strike ????
https://www.facebook.com/TWMDS/posts/611479558935283
Furthermore, China has invested more than $20 billion in Sudan mostly
in the oil sector during the past two decades. Beijing provides
low-interest loans and weapons transfers in return for oil. This is an
extract from the news item regarding China’s Vice-Premier arrives in
Khartoum to discuss debt settlement.
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article63341
The (NCP) regime has begun reaping the disastrous results of armament
of some tribes in Darfur and sending some of them to the holocaust war
in Yemen. The situation in Darfur has been strained as a result of the
conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Border Guards
Forces (BGF) as well as the growing tension in the Libyan and Chadian
borders.
It is difficult to imagine how on earth that the Administration of US
President Donald Trump would make an informed decision and issuing an
Executive Order (EO) on 12/13 October 2017 to remove all economic and
trade sanctions imposed by former US President Bill Clinton since the
year 1997 with the pre-conditions to desist hostilities without
independent monitors on the ground. The pre-conditions for permanent
sanction removal include: Sudan to allow more humanitarian aid and
unfettered access across war zones, counterterrorism cooperation with
the United States, an end to hostilities against armed groups in Sudan
and halting support for insurgents in neighbouring South Sudan.
Ironically, Sudan under the (NCP) regime Continues to Import and
Export Arms despite Embargoes, according to informed sources.
https://nubareports.org/sudan-insider-sudan-continues-to-import-and-export-arms-despite-embargoes/
As Salah Jalal, writing in the Hurriyat electronic Newspaper said that
the weapons that the National Congress Party (NCP) regime wants to
collect from the Darfur region is Achilles’ heel! One would endorse
that opinion and reiterate it as nothing but a fait accompli at best
and pouring the dust into the eyes at worst.
http://www.hurriyatsudan.com/?p=227829
It is noteworthy before going further to pinpoint the following prior
to delving into the depth of the upcoming article:
• The blokes in ruling regime of the National Congress Party (NCP) did
not occur to their mind during the length of their stay on the helm of
Sudan as to why the arms have spread in the Darfur region and how to
remove those reasons before starting to collect the alleged weapons.
• We must consider the reasons that led ordinary citizens to acquire
and carry arms, and ask ourselves as to whether those reasons have
disappeared, and if they still exist, how best to remove them.
• The ruling regime must respond to these questions, which impose
themselves before jumping into the dark and trying to collect weapons
recklessly lacking scientific and practical outcome.
• The logical question is: Have the right circumstances been created
to collect weapons; the logical question posed by an article in the
electronic Newspaper of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) dated
24.08.20.2017.
http://www.sudanjem.com/2017/08/%D9%87%D9%84-%D8%AA%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A3%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81-%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%9F/#more-134765
Political analysts say it would have been better for the ruling
National Congress Party (NCP) regime to disarm its own militias. They
also stressed the importance of taking the step to achieve
comprehensive peace in Darfur and beyond prior to launching this
campaign which will result in failure as the overall security projects
of the regime in the past and perhaps in the future. The people of
Sudan in Darfur support the collection of weapons in principle and
call on the regime to begin to collect weapons from its militias. The
Darfur armed movements will then collect weapons in the hands of their
forces once comprehensive peace archived in Sudan, including Darfur.
The cherry-picking project of the (NCP) regime is doomed for abject
failure similar to its predecessors. Unfortunately, this regime does
not take lessons from the repeated the failures of its security
projects, which lack wisdom and rationality and have a disastrous
outcome for the country and its people. It was also said that the
regime of the (NCP), which emanates from the International Muslim
Brotherhood Movement (MBM), is like the family of the French Bourbon
kings who failed repeatedly to take lessons of their mistakes, as the
European history told us.The House of Bourbon e -French Maison de
Bourbon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon
This review article comes as a continuation to what we have started in
the previous article on the decision of the NCP ruling regime to
collect the alleged unlicensed weapons from the people of Sudan in
Darfur. We will continue and try to expose the hidden agenda behind
the campaign whose true motives are far from those announced. One of
the most important factors for the epidemic proliferation of weapons
in the Darfur region is the advent of the ill-fated National Islamic
Front (NIF) which carried and brought with it all the disasters and
woes that Sudan and its people suffered from.
The attempt by the ruling regime of the National Islamic Front (NIF)
to take the militias and mercenaries from the neighbouring countries
as a means of proxy war in Darfur has started from the very beginning
of its disastrous arrival through the heinous military coup d’état. In
order to do that, the regime had to provide the militias with military
equipments in the form of machine guns, ammunition, vehicles,
uniforms, food and drink and other forms of items subsistence
including financial aid. At the same time, the regime under the
auspices their member and Governor of the Greater Darfur, El-Tayeb
Mohmed Kheir -aka Tayeb Sikha who launched a campaign for arms
collection from the civilian population in Darfur at the time but
Al-Tayeb Muhammad Khair armed the Arab tribes of Baggara to confront
the revolutionary Dawood Yahya Bolad. The martyr Daoud Yahya Bolad has
realized the mistake of belonging to the National Islamic Front (NIF).
He decided to align to his marginalized people in Darfur that his
people by joining the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by
the late Dr. John Garang Mabior and led his troops to Darfur. However,
through conspiracy by some of Darfuri traitors Daoud Yahya Bolad was
captured and extra judicially killed. Those who assassinated Bolad had
been armed by the (NIF) regime despite his past loyalty to the Muslim
Brotherhood Movement (MBM). Ever since the (NCP) regime supplied the
Arab militia with arms which it claims that going to collect. Thus the
paradox continued unabated.
As early as the year 2007 Sudan under the reign of the National
Islamic Front (NIF)/ National Congress Party (NCP) regime has been
classified among the failed states. According to arthroscope website
http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/977436/1/ Sudan emerged as
the world’s most unstable country according to the 2007 Failed States
Index, mainly due to its military dictatorship and the ongoing war in
Darfur between farmers and nomadic settlers. In other words, 18 years
of oppressive warmongering regime, Sudan had become one of the
globally failed states. However, the degree of failure today of the
Sudan under the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) led by the
genocidal criminal, fugitive from the international justice, chased by
the International Criminal Court (ICC) Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir,
will be very difficult if not impossible to determine the degree of
failure in 2017 today.
The second stage of the racial hatred of Darfur people by the National
Congress Party (NCP) regime surfaced when it decided to strip the
Darfur Native Administration of its age long powers that kept the
region safe place for all the inhabitants. As we know, the Tribal
leaders in the region of Darfur’s Civil Administration before the
ill-fated coming of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement (MBM)/National
Islamic Front (NIF) military coup d’état included Sultans, Kings,
Shartay, Umdas(Mayors) and Sheikhs. The Friday 30th June 1989 Military
coup d’état took place in the forefront of the goal of dismantling the
traditional Darfurian structure and reformulating the Darfur society.
It was the first to control the institutions of the local
administration by removing the old ones to build the so-called “Umara”
or ‘princes’ system instead of the principals, aforementioned. The
weakening of the authority of the civil administration in Darfur by
the military ruling regimes has accelerated the spread of crime and
security chaos and the proliferation of unauthorized weapons in the
hands of the lawless individuals among the tribal groups.
The source of arms in Darfur
The flow of firearms into Darfur initially started as a result of the
civil war in the neighbouring republic of Chad and the Chadian-Libyan
conflict (Ben Omar forces). The quantities of weapons that were leaked
were limited. Their influence was limited to the arrival of arms to
some criminal gangs, which were used for armed robbery – the infamous
Nahab Musallah.
At the beginning of 2002, the armed political conflict in the Darfur
region erupted. The regime decided to confront popular violence with
state institutions. For objective reasons, official government
violence institutions have not been able to control the popular
violence demanding justice in the distribution of wealth and power
throughout the marginalized areas of Sudan. The National Salvation -
the ruling regime of the National Islamic Front - after several
defeats facing the SPLM mobilized counter-popular, and began arming
the Arab tribes called Janjawid using the policy of divide the
division of the tribes of Darfur to the Arabs and Africans, Arabs
against black.
As a result of these political reasons, the tribes considered by the
government loyal to the militias armed with the knowledge of the
state, and the term of the Rizeigat militia Abla and other armed
militias, this reality opened the appetite of the other tribes to arm
themselves to defend their property, expanding the arms market and
flourished in all the cities of Darfur, In its project, it codified
the activity of militias as a legal activity protected by political
power. The government formed and armed these militias with different
factions, including for example the border guards force (BGF) led by
Sheikh Musa Hilal of the Mahameed tribe Arab Mahameed clan, a branch
of the Northern Rizeigat tribe many of them are Um Jalloul,
Al-Muhajiriya, Al-Iteifat, Al-Ereigat and others from Abla, the camel
herders. Musa Hilal is originally Um-Jalloul while Mohmed Hamdan
Dogolo Hamitti is originally Mahariya. They maybe cousins descend from
the Mahamid or the northern Rizeigat. Both are nomadic camel herders
lived in the North Darfur District of Kutum. Generally speaking, the
nomadic camel herders had no "hawakir" (land grants).
In addition to support given by the NCP ruling regime in the form of
arms, ammunition and transportation for the Janjaweed militias, the
(NCP) regime allowed the Janjaweed militias to have exclusive
ownership of all the spoils of their ethnic warfare and all the
invasions of the citizens’ property, in addition to border trade and
livestock trade and national mining. Historically, they are Bedouin
engaged in nomadic herding. They are unlike the main Baggara Rizeigat
tribes of Darfur were awarded "hawakir" (land grants) by the Fur
Sultans in the 1750s.
But the ruling regime of the National Congress Party (NCP), which
called itself the National Salvation Revolution, codified militia
activity as a legal activity protected by political power. This
reality opened the appetite of the rest of the tribes for armaments,
the arms market expanded and flourished in all the cities of Darfur.
The government entered into its project to commit crimes of genocide
to put down the revolution of the people of Sudan in Darfur, who had
been demanding only the rights of citizenship in the form of justice
and equality.
Musa Hilal revealed his rejection of large amounts of money offered by
foreign parties to leave the Sudan and said that the accusations of
the Vice President of the Republic of the recruitment of 1,000 people
from the Mahamid for the forces of Haftar in Libya malicious and its
goal to discredit the Revolutionary Awakening Council.
And since Sheikh Musa Hilal and his militia have some independence in
the administration of the establishment of the interests it
established, this independence of course did not satisfy the ruling
regime of the National Congress Party, which decided to converge on
one of the soldiers of Musa Hilal, Muhammad Hamdan Dogolo, -aka
Hamitti. Now, Mohammed Hamdan Dogolo, famously known as Hmidty is of
the guerrilla of the guerrillas in the official newspapers which
published that the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) made a
donation of about twenty Landcruzer l vehicles to the elders of the
civil administration, and donated to build schools and other
maintenance. It is known that Hmidty has been promoted to the military
rank of Lieutenant –General. And thus he became part of the Sudan army
Force (SAF) he and his militia and take orders only from the President
of the ruling regime of the National Congress Party (NCP) Marshal Omar
Hassan Ahmed Bashir. Today, Hamedti and his (RSF) militias are only
responsible in front of Omar al-Bashir and are considered a red line!
Political observers indicate that the government of the National
Congress Party (NCP) decided to step closer to Mohammed Hamdan Dogolo
and set up the Rapid Support Force (RSF) led by Hamidati In an attempt
to offend the leader of the Border Guard militia, Sheikh Musa Hilal.
Al-Bashir’s government chose one of Musa Hilal’s former boys to become
a leader of the new militia, to send a message that says in a clear
way to Sheikh Moses I am the one who makes the king! According to the
press, Moussa Hilal himself came to the spotlight when the former
First Vice-President of the National Congress Party, Ali Osman Mohamed
Taha, released him from Kober Prison where he was imprisoned for the
crime in which he was convicted in 1998 for leading armed robbery
against the Central Bank of Nyala in which one policeman was killed.
As the Sudan Tribune electronic Newspaper on TUESDAY 22 JANUARY 2008
stated and said “Musa Hilal from a convicted felon to a government
official”! http://www.sudantribune.com/PROFILE-Musa-Hilal-from-a,25660
The foregoing excerpts depict the intensity and high degree of
rapprochement between the Janjaweed militias that committed the most
heinous crimes against the Sudanese citizens in the Darfur region and
the genocidal criminal Omer al-Bashir; what happened and continues
happening on the ground in Darfur is without a doubt the greatest
witness before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Nevertheless and according to the recent newspaper outlet reports an
armed confrontation on the horizon between the government army and
Musa Hilal. Matters between the tribal leader, Musa Hilal, and the
regime led by Omer al-Bashir have reached the point of no return, amid
strong fears of an armed confrontation between the two sides.
Al-Bashir’s Vice President Hassabo Abdel Rahman accused Hilal of
conspiring with Libyan General Khalifa Haftar to undermine the
Khartoum regime. Hassabo has been reported as saying (if we had to
face Musa Hilal, we will not leave his conspiring with Haftar).
Musa Hilal, head of the Revolutionary Awakening Council (RAC) told
Radio Aafia Darfur station on that he would strongly oppose a
government plan aimed at disarming his forces and merging them into
the Rapid Support militia. Hilal has been reported as continued
describing the members of the Rapid Support (RSF) Militia, as
mercenaries coming from outside the border (as he put it). On August
23, 2017 The Sudanese regime President Omer al-Bashir has been
reported as has instructed the governor of North Darfur State, Abdul
Wahid Yousef Ibrahim to deal decisively with any attempts to
destabilize security and saying that the collection of illegal arms is
a top priority for the government.
In a situation similar to show of force, thousands of supporters of
Musa Hilal gathered in his stronghold of Misteriha in North Darfur
state and announced in a speech campaign of readiness to confront the
government armies head-on. The parade featured hundreds of
four-wheel-drive vehicles loaded with guns. The Sudanese Revolutionary
Awakening Council led by Sheikh Musa has been reported to have called
on the “sons of the Rizeigat” in the Sudanese government army to join
Sheikh Musa Hilal in his area, Misteriha.
For its part, the Sudanese army conducted the largest internal
maneuver in its history, under the banner in the name (Meram Taja, the
sister Sultan Ali Dinar) near the strongholds of Musa Hilal, with the
participation of tanks and the air force. Furthermore, to escalate its
campaign of muscle flexion, the (NCP) regime launched the decision to
collect arms from citizens in the troubled Darfur region since 2003
amid deep suspicion that the main objective of the government’s
campaign is to weaken Musa Hilal and form new power centers.
Thus, on these days Moussa Hilal and the ruling regime of the National
Congress Party (NCP) have reached a boiling point where Moussa Hilal
led a campaign against the vice-president of the National Congress
Party. Musa Hilal, the head of the Awakening Council, continued his
attack on government symbols, in particular Hassabo Mohammed Abdul
Rahman who is tasked with the collection of weapons from the Darfur
region. Moreover, Hilal started his attacks against the commander of
the Rapid Support Force (RSF) Mohammed Hamdan Hamiditi. He said that
Hamidati and his gang looted millions of dollars allocated by Gulf
States to the Rapid Support Forces. As the popular Sudanese proverb
says, if the thieves disagree, the stolen one appears. And thus each
one of the militia leaders is insulting the other with obscene words
that cannot be mentioned in this field. Nevertheless, this is evidence
that the relationship between them reached the level of enmity and the
point of no return. As they say that the so-called Barragesh committed
the crime against itself! The ruling regime of the National Congress
Party (NCP) has a habit of finding something that can cause the
distraction of the Sudanese people away from the real issues of
concern. By doing so, the regime thinks that can help to overcome its
endless problems, its chronic failures and its inability to run the
country. Moreover, these dilemmas stem from the fossilized mentality
that does not take lessons from the history of repeated fatal
mistakes, despite the length of time that Omar al-Bashir remained on
the helm of Sudan for three decades as absolute dictator. The (NCP)
rule of Sudan is without any doubt is a true era of the decadence
characterised by hatred, racism, tyranny, Corruption, failure, looting
and plundering of the people’s money and heinous crimes against
humanity, war crimes and on top the crimes of genocide in Darfur. As
they say it is witnessed by a witness from his family: the electronic
newspaper – Hurriyat reported that, Brigadier General Salah Mohammed
Ahmed Karrar - nicknamed Salah Dollar - One of the leaders who carried
out the coup d’état of Friday June 30, 1989, led by the National
Islamic Front (NIF) confirmed the validity of the slogan which says
“Kizan are thieves and I am among them!” The Sudanese Arabic Kizan is
an acronym meaning members of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement (MBM) in
Sudan. There is no way out of the chronic dilemmas and the crises in
Sudan without the demise of the (NCP) regime by all means available to
the people of Sudan.
Oscar Wilde Oscar the Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous
short stories and one novel has been quoted as saying: “I hope you
have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being
good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/hypocrisy
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is an author, columnist and a blogger. His
blog is http://thussudan.wordpress.com/
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