23 May 2013
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“I am not scared about you to lead, I am alarmed by your greed” – Said, Southern Sudanese poet in his poem - entitled “Sudan is My Country” (Name Unknown).

            By, Gabriel Makuei Tor

altThe call for the Sudanese unity by Khartoum is the dirty truth, one need not to sacrifice for it. Unity of the Country is good anywhere in the world, but with who I am residing with – I don’t call for. The Sudanese Unity is lacking spirit of brotherhood, nationality, patriotism and mutual understanding but thronged with Jihads, Islamization, and Arabization – dogged by its kleptocratic behaviors, at gun point; is not the integrity which our comrades have been laid to rest for. This is a ground of no tolerance to any kingdom. The National Congress Party with its military wing - National Islamic Front; has made unity unattractive, and wanted to cling to the Sudanese power and wealth without sharing it amongst the Sudanese citizens. I have seen them having mouths to talk but no ears to lend.

Show me that article – which says all parties must support Unattractive Sudanese Unity and I will show you Hague’s criminal Lodge – ICC on the Desk. Stop crying for unity. Where were they; who cry for unity against Secession when the South burns for Over 50 years?

Is/was Sudan in unity? Definitely “Big No!!!”. The Sudanese government has fought the South for over half a century and Darfur for almost a decade now! Would you call that a united Country – in real sense, no unity exists but the possession of the name Sudan to all the Sudanese people and regions. Those who are calling for united Sudan must know there was nothing united before and that’s why the SPLM/A took up arms to defend and unite the Country. This idea have been put on ice and erased by the ruling NCP  by using Jihad and Sharia law as law of the Land against non-Muslims - So where is the union and the unionists who kept silence by then, when the South was butchered for decades with no call for a cease fire and now they call for unity. Did you see that comrade – “Living Witness?” Leaders were assassinated; children abducted for slavery, innocent citizens were thrown to jails and rest murdered mercilessly.

No prisoners of war were returned, or exchanged when SPLA released Khartoum’s POWs to the North.

When the Sudanese government agreed to sit around the negotiation table, with the Sudan People Liberation Movement - with it military wing - Sudan People Liberation Army, for a peace talk that took 3 years of dialogue in Kenyan cities of Machakos, Naivasha and Nairobi among others. Behind 2.5 million lives lost due to war and related causes, according to UN – which those with Sudanese civil war experiences on the ground; claimed to be at a greater rate than 2.5 millions.

A Sudanese government of NCP with broken records of aborting peace, wealth and power sharing treaties; between their opposition-South and Khartoum-North, since 1940’s - sat to dialogue with the SPLM/A knowing if they have signed more than several treaties in the past and has broken them, knows too, even the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is just a break from long wars, but could be dishonored, at its 11th hour.

      NCP - Dispatching Misseriya Tribes against the Nine Ngok Dinka Tribes.

Even if there seemed to be a way forward; the NCP do comes in to twist the original stories. The recent report from Addis Ababa about the Misseriya Tribes claiming Abyei at this late hour and they had never been part of the Dinka Ngok, either religiously, natively and traditionally. What is the connection today? They have threatened to wage war against Abyei and the South, if they are not allowed to vote in Abyei Referendum or share power and wealth equally with the Ngok Dinka as said by El Bashir’s government and party (NCP) to SPLM few weeks ago as pros. These claims were not revealed during 2002 to 2005 peace talk in Kenya – until everything came to conclusion on Abyei only. Behind these claims by Misseriya Tribes. Is Khartoum government with intention to thwart or ruin Referenda for the South and Abyei regions, Popular Consultation to Blue Nile and Kordofan States. These fake grievances must stop now. The NCP’s weir is not going to catch anybody and the South shall wades through - tall and free.

           Sudanese Disintegration today is Sudanese Integration tomorrow.

If South Sudan agree for the unity of the Country Sudan – she will be the first army to burn remnant villages of Darfur to ashes; Because the NCP will use its forces to destroy the little left of Darfur before Khartoum disarm them and you know the rest ……. To save the remnant few – make your vote of separation count and get your voice heard, forever peaceful Sudan.

Remember to respect your registration to vote for Referenda – anywhere in the world when it begins; where legible.

The NCP should know that – the SPLM/SPLA’s Flag; is a Flag of a Nation, which is not going anywhere! Khartoum must accept that a Nation is born for us to leave Separate than dying together.

The Southern Sudanese People can afford anything and anybody, but what they could not afford are 50 more years of Bashir’s cheat notes and generation in the bush.

            By, Gabriel Makuei Tor

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Published in Opinions

kalma-camp The chairman of the Justice and Liberation Movement (JLM), Al Tigani al-Sisi, told Radio Miraya that they are demanding for an international fact-finding committee under the supervision of the United Nation-African Union Mission in Darfur to investigate into the recent violence incidents in some IDP camps.

Published in Sudan

police The spokesperson of Sudan Police Forces, General Ahmed Imam Al Tuhami, has revealed that the police are tracing the murderers of US diplomat who escaped to Darfur State.

Published in Sudan

ali_ahmed_karti_221 The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Karti, held talks on Sunday afternoon with the U.S. Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, to make arrangements for the CPA partners to meet the American officials in New York. Karti added further that they discussed the positive outcome of the upcoming New York's meeting for the sake of Darfur and Southern Sudan.

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lra_350 Members of the Liberation and Justice Movement in Darfur said they have been attacked by what they believed to be the Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Western Sudan. The Deputy Chairman of Liberation and Justice Movement, Haider Falokoma Atim, told Reuters News Agency that a group of LRA rebels attacked their forces on Wednesday in Dafak area in South Darfur.

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clinic The Ministry of Health in South Darfur State has closed down a Chinese hospital in Nyala Tuesday amid allegation it has violated agreement with the state government on medical practices. South Darfur Minister of Health, Ahmed Mohammed Al Safi, told Miraya that the hospital has been prescribing expired medicines to patients.

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mutrif_200 The State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Mutrif Siddiq, has revealed endeavors by Darfur Armed movements to shift military operations into the IDPs camps. Mutrif said in a meeting on Tuesday with several voluntary organizations operating in Darfur that the movement of Abdul Wahid wanted to foil Doha negotiations.

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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attends the promulgation ceremony of Kenya's new constitution in the capital Nairobi that was presided over by his Kenyan counterpart H.E. Mwai Kibaki. US President Barack Obama congratulated Kenya Friday on its new constitution but said he was "disappointed" Nairobi had hosted Omar al-Bashir, a suspected war criminal.…(AFP/Tony Karumba)WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama congratulated Kenya Friday on its new constitution but said he was "disappointed" Nairobi had hosted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a suspected war criminal.

"This historic approval and signing of the constitution is an important step forward, and demonstrates the commitment of Kenya's leaders and people to a future of unity, democracy and equal justice for all -- even the powerful," Obama said in a statement.

"With this constitution, the people of Kenya have set a positive example for all of Africa and the world," he added, before turning his attention to the presence of Bashir, which threatened to overshadow the ceremony.

"I am disappointed that Kenya hosted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in defiance of International Criminal Court arrest warrants for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide."

Obama reminded Kenya that it had committed itself to full cooperation with the ICC and added: "In Kenya and beyond, justice is a critical ingredient for lasting peace."

Watched by tens of thousands of his countrymen, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki signed the constitution into law at a colorful ceremony Friday in Nairobi's main park.

The document, overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum earlier this month, is a pillar of reforms aimed at averting a repeat of the violence that killed more than 1,000 people following the disputed 2007 election.

But reaction abroad was one of consternation over the attendance of Bashir, one of a handful of heads of state present for the ceremony, including Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni.

Bashir was indicted in March 2009 for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, and in July 2010 on charges of genocide, relating to atrocities committed by Khartoum's forces in Sudan's western province of Darfur.

 

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Africa News

 

New York/Nairobi - The United Nations said Friday that it was 'absolutely untrue' that Rwandan President Paul Kagame had threatened to pull Rwandan troops from Darfur if a UN report on the alleged killing of thousands of Hutus were published.

The draft report was leaked and published by the French daily Le Monde, which was picked up subsequently by news services. The draft alleged that the Rwandan army and Congolese rebels killed thousands of Rwandan Hutus in a revenge campaign during the 1990s that could be defined as genocide.

Le Monde said Kagame, who this month won a landslide re-election, has threatened to withdraw Rwandan forces from the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur should the report be published in its current form.

At UN headquarters in New York, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said the leaked report was not the final version that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, which commissioned the investigation, intended to make public 'quite soon.'

'It's an important report,' Nesirky said. 'Its aim is to help the people in the region as they grapple with the need for a judicial transition and to help them to fight against impunity.'

Nesirky insisted that the report, which is about 500 pages, has been in the works for a long time and the dozens of people deployed by Geneva in the Democratic Republic of Congo need to verify all the facts before it will be published.

The report details how the Rwandan army and associated rebel groups systematically targeted Hutus in Congo from 1993-2003. Around 1 million Hutus fled to Congo after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, to escape the backlash after Hutu militia had slaughtered 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

The report said that checkpoints were set up to identify Hutus and eliminate them in DR Congo, which was formerly known as Zaire. Among the victims were women, children and the elderly.

Kagame, who led the Tutsi troops that ended the genocide and seized power in Kigali in 1994, is likely to be angered by the claims.

The genocide is still a sensitive subject in Rwanda. Opponents of Kagame have been arrested on charges of genocide denial for suggesting Tutsi forces carried out massacres in Congo in the aftermath of the slaughter.

Published in Sudan

 Khartoum, Aug. 23 (SUNA) - The government has assigned a sum of 1.9 billion dollars for implementing developmental projects in the three Darfur states

Meanwhile, a meeting of the higher committee for implementation of Darfur peace strategy, chaired by the Vice - President of the Republic, Ali Osman

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