Posted by TheBlackList on February 28, 2009 at 10:24am
WHY THE SOUTH SUDAN GOVERNMENT (GOSS) MISLEAD AFRICANS TO SUPPORT THE NON ISSUE OF THE WRIT AGAINST BASHIR, THUS TAKING AN ANTI-AFRICAN NATIONALIST POSITIONNow Salva Kiir can relax as far as the ICC is concerned.
By Dr. Justin Ambago Ramba, M.D, U.K.
FEB. 18/2009, SSN; When President al Bashir and his National Congress Party (NCP) found themselves face to face with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Darfur, they immediately rushed to involve the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the mess. First Vice President (FVP) of Sudan, the president of south Sudan and Chairman of SPLM/A, Mr. Kiir was hurriedly appointed to lead a high level committee entrusted with the impossible task of gathering support for al Bashir at both the regional and international levels, and in no time Kiir became the roaming envoy to the neighboring countries.
The sudden involvement of SPLM in the anti-ICC campaign in the person of its leader Salva Kiir Mayardit was received with much mixed feelings both at home and abroad. Many south Sudanese feel that SPLM involvement in this manner was quite inappropriate, and that Kiir himself has much to tackle with the NCP as far as the implementation of the CPA is concerned. Kiir was worried initially because he wondered if al Bashir were to be indicted, then how are the rest of the CPA protocols going to be implemented?
Kiir thought that by standing on al Bashir’s side during this rough times might give him the credit in the president’s eyes and may be help things at the presidency since the two were already known to be at a persistent logger-heads on many issues pertaining to the CPA and on top of it, the demarcation of the Abyei borders. But, though Kiir took up the dirty job for al Bashir, the NCP’s position on the Abyei boundaries remained unchanged, but may be even turned to a more rigid stance than ever before.
Now Mr. Kiir has a different stand on the ICC issue, and that is the general stand adopted by the SPLM in its emergency meeting in Juba. This stand supports a legal cooperation and engagement with the ICC, a position totally condemned by Khartoum and especially the ruling NCP of al Bashir. At this juncture I believe that Mr. Kiir should have washed his hands from the anti-ICC committee; however by the agreement he is still going to be working with a wanted man.
Many individuals and organizations from all walks of life and under different names have tried to influence the ICC decision in favor of al Bashir. The African Union, the Arab League, the Sudanese Friends, and some hired foreign legal firms did all it could take to see to it that at least the decision to indict al Bashir is deferred for another one year, but to their own dismay and that of their sympathizers, the whole exercise did not yield the expected fruit. The entire petition presented directly to the judges at The Hague was as well turned down by the three tough ladies (Justice).
It's now apparent that al Bashir has been indicted and what is left is just the announcement. The AU and Arab League delegation which tried to lobby for al Bashir at the UN have already reported their utter failure to secure any deferral of the indictment.
Unfortunately the NCP is still down playing the magnitude of the event as can be deduced from the several announcements made by its senior members. The Sudanese ambassador to the UN, Abdel-Mahmood Abdel-Haleem, said that he passed on his government’s stance on the ICC to his American counterpart Susan Rice.
“For us this so-called indictment doesn’t exist” he said. “No one will give it a damn in the country. If it has any merit, it has united the whole Sudanese people around our president”. (Sudan Tribune)
However, the truth is that if at all al Bashir is indeed indicted by the ICC, which of course will be the first of its kind for a sitting head of a state, then there will definitely come a time when his Excellency the ambassador will come to appreciate that the indictment does actually exist.
The talks in Doha between the Sudan government and the Darfur rebel faction, the JEM has already been influenced to some extent by the rumors of the imminent issue of the arrest warrant to president al Bashir. The government delegation has on occasions voiced out their concern that because of the imminency of the warrant, the JEM has raised it ceiling of negotiation and even the movement’s first in command Dr Ibrahim Khalil, is quoted to have vowed to hunt down al Bashir should president become a wanted person by the ICC.
However, my gut feeling is that the NCP though at this early stage would in fact want to appear consistent and unified behind al Bashir, but given the reality of things on the ground, it will be forced to reconsider its position towards the ICC some time in the future. At a certain stage in the whole scenario, al Bashir has to disappear from public and political life. This may either mean that he goes to The Hague to face justice that he has persistently denied the people of the Sudan, or else the oil money can buy him a refuge to one of the Arab or Islamic countries if he is to escape the ICC.
The Egyptians came with a high level delegation to Khartoum and obviously they are concerned about some of the statements coming from Khartoum in reaction to the ICC decision. Egypt says that it will do its best to defer the arrest warrant from being issued against al Bashir, but how much is this feasible? Anyway the Egyptians are already aware that al Bashir is in for it. What they would want to avoid is the eruption of any power struggle should the inevitable happen. Egypt would want a peaceful transfer of power in Khartoum and it would also want to influence the process so as to come up with an alternative leader to al Bashir in a person who would strongly protect their (Egypt) interests in the Sudan by honoring all the bilateral relations and agreements.
Nevertheless, Khartoum is bent to fight back before it could finally give in. Local as well as international Sudanese politics are bound to sour in the few coming weeks. There will be many arbitrary arrests and even the relationship between the NCP/SPLM is expected to get tense in the face of what is now looming in the air. If the new budget which started in January 2009 has not yet been financed by Khartoum, then the SPLM led government of south Sudan (GoSS) must consider this as an unhealthy development and should not be allowed to go unchallenged in its severest form.
If at any stage following the issue of the arrest warrant against al Bashir, should the NCP declare a state of emergency, or arrest the constitution through a military take over, then SPLM/A should be ready to lead the south towards a better destiny. Meanwhile as they (NCP) continue to claim that they do not recognize the ICC rulings, then they must be made to continue with the democratic process which entails the holding of the general elections any time this year. This of course has to be preceded by the border demarcation, and the amendment of all the laws that are incompatible with the CPA (security, press, etc).
As it is now, Kiir is completely relieved of his post as the head of the anti- ICC campaign as the inevitable is about to happen; meanwhile al Bashir waits to be relocated to the el Dindir Park (Garamba) temporarily until such a time that he is sorted out by his cronies.
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Its curious how EU/USA courts stumble over "war crimes" criminals wyo
are right under their feet - while they actively seek to indite and prosecute
those they identify as such in Afrika!
So your point is what, we should put onto a back burner the genocide that is taken place in Darfur and deal with war crimes and its criminals in a chronological order.
It has always been a curious phenomemon for me to observe how it seems so many of us who are of African ancestry and endowed with various amount of melanian, will put the interest of Islam in front of our race when we accept Islam as our religious belief. For the record, the overwhelming number of those "Devils on Horsebacks" who are swooping down on the Darfurian villiages of our brothers and sisters, right after the warplanes of the Khartoum government have unleashed their deadly cargo, are of color and think pretty much like you do when it comes to chosing between race and religion.
We must never forget from a historial standpoint that, the Arabs are not and never have been our friends. The Arabs came into Africa as invaders and have stayed with the sole purpose in mind of total conquest. The Arab conquest was and is to be carried out without any regard for the rights of the indigenous people of Africa and their culture. Destruction, dominance and death is all that the Arabs have ever offered the indigenous people of Africa. It was true then as it is today and any offered plan(s) coming from them can be trace to their un-ending goal of accomplishing that objective no matter how they may try to cover their intent. In capturing the mind of the African so that they could pretty much accomplishied what they willed with them, Islam was used by the Arabs pretty much the same way as Christianity was used by the European.
When will we learn that we do not have anyone eles to depend upon but ourselves. We must always put the interest and safety of African people ahead of all else. That is how every other group of people on this earth thinks and acts and for us not to do so is to our own collective detriment.
Yes the struggle does continue and I am afraid that you do not realize just how profound that phrase is that you have chosen to close your post with.
With profound respect in chosen to disagree without being disagreeable,
Really? It is wishful thinking to imagine that a sitting head of an African stae can be forced to "step down" by an international court. This is especially true considering that both the Arab League and the African Union is opposed to such interferrence in the internal affairs of the African nation.
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Its curious how EU/USA courts stumble over "war crimes" criminals wyo
are right under their feet - while they actively seek to indite and prosecute
those they identify as such in Afrika!
The Struggle Continues!
Peace
HTS
It has always been a curious phenomemon for me to observe how it seems so many of us who are of African ancestry and endowed with various amount of melanian, will put the interest of Islam in front of our race when we accept Islam as our religious belief. For the record, the overwhelming number of those "Devils on Horsebacks" who are swooping down on the Darfurian villiages of our brothers and sisters, right after the warplanes of the Khartoum government have unleashed their deadly cargo, are of color and think pretty much like you do when it comes to chosing between race and religion.
We must never forget from a historial standpoint that, the Arabs are not and never have been our friends. The Arabs came into Africa as invaders and have stayed with the sole purpose in mind of total conquest. The Arab conquest was and is to be carried out without any regard for the rights of the indigenous people of Africa and their culture. Destruction, dominance and death is all that the Arabs have ever offered the indigenous people of Africa. It was true then as it is today and any offered plan(s) coming from them can be trace to their un-ending goal of accomplishing that objective no matter how they may try to cover their intent. In capturing the mind of the African so that they could pretty much accomplishied what they willed with them, Islam was used by the Arabs pretty much the same way as Christianity was used by the European.
When will we learn that we do not have anyone eles to depend upon but ourselves. We must always put the interest and safety of African people ahead of all else. That is how every other group of people on this earth thinks and acts and for us not to do so is to our own collective detriment.
Yes the struggle does continue and I am afraid that you do not realize just how profound that phrase is that you have chosen to close your post with.
With profound respect in chosen to disagree without being disagreeable,
M. Wade