NCP: 20 Years of Engineering Death and Destruction in Sudan
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the National Congress Party’s dictatorial leadership of Sudan. For two decades under the rule of President Omar al-Bashir, the regime’s coercive divide-and-rule tactics have enabled it to manipulate and repress – instead of effectively govern and support – Sudan’s people. The results of the NCP’s brutal policies have been deadly; a powerful op-ed in the Guardian today tallied the results:
In the past two decades, President Bashir has waged two civil wars, taking the lives of more than 2.6 million people, and displaced a further 6.5 million; he has funded murderous rebel armies in Chad and Uganda; and most recently he has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes.
There is no shortage of evidence of the regime’s ability to sow chaos and manage multiple crises throughout Sudan’s expansive territory with the ultimate aim of maintaining its grip on power at all costs. The NCP has also repeatedly proven that its leaders can skillfully manipulate the international community with false promises, clever excuses, and halfhearted and ultimately inadequate solutions to Sudan's enduring crises.
The bottom line is this: The NCP has a well-documented history of orchestrating campaigns of genocide and mass atrocities against its people. Under Bashir’s leadership, the NCP has proven time and again its ability to manipulate the international community’s efforts to negotiate peace in Sudan. The NCP relishes the "revolving door" nature of Western diplomacy, which has allowed the regime to utilize its tried and true tactics on optimistic diplomats who arrive in Khartoum hopeful about the regime's intentions. But after 20 years in power, there is no evidence that the NCP's behavior will change; indeed, its policies have been remarkably consistent over the past two decades.
In the wake of last week's CPA conference in Washington and in the run-up to the pivotal decision by Permanent Court of Arbitration in coming weeks on the boundaries of the contested Abyei province, it is essential that no one forgets the fundamental characteristics of the NCP, and the horrific degrees of repression and manipulation of which it is capable.
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NCP: 20 YEARS OF PROSPERITY AND PROGRESS (4)
The fudamental commitment of the NCP to the principles of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), an agreement to which it is an original creator and partner, stands as a shining evidence of its inherent observation of promises it makes. Furthermore, its attendance with a high level delegate at Washington CPA conference is another message of a further commitment to a peaceful Sudan. For a party with such an ability and readiness to find peace through lenghty and patient negotiations labelling of horror, repression and manipulation is a bare and false attempt of targeting and distortion.
The NCP is a party with leadership, vision and message accompanied by a long accumulative experience of statehood proven through tests and hardships. Passing through periods of Western economic, diplomatic and political sanctions during most of its ruling term, the party has managed to lead the country through the road of developement and progress. Through its leadership, Sudan has seen the establishment of enormous developemental projects in all fields far outweigh what previous rulers did in the country. Every aspect of life sees developemental efforts, be it energy sector, infrastructure projects or state building capacity.The last thing the NCP needs from the world is false allegations and exaggerated transfer of news that serve no advantage for the Sudan. The NCP has been conducting an ambitious project to stabilize and modernize Sudan by signing and adopting a series of peace agreements to which it is commited and honest and the only capable party to implement and preserve.
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Having a skillful leadership that understands and digests the issuses of the international politics and manage to detect the political games played by its rivals and foes is not that a defect which you attribute to the NCP. If the NCP manage to handle situations with other players in a way that preserves its interests and Sudan interest then no one can deny it this right since it is a basic principle in the world of politics. The diplomatic victories achieved by the NCP defenders in the face of the fierce campaigns it has been subjected to for years prove the exceptional capabilities and skills of the party. When the NCP defends itself against others' attacks and achieves victories then it is not the fault of the NCP, those who have started it should ask themselves.
Again a mere talk about genocide and atrocities commited by the NCP which proves the hidden agenda and conspiracies that motivate the advocacy movement activities. The final talk about genocide should not be based on slogans and subjective impressions instead of proven evidences and proper investigations conducting on the basis of neutrality and objectivity, a course of action the advocacy movement intentionally avoids or severely lacks.
The existance of chaos and disorder results in weakening the foundations and institutions of every state which is not in favour of both the ruler and the people. By all mrasures it is not in the interest of the NCP to intentionally create chaos in a country it rules taking into consideration the price it has to pay to contain it.
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The subject of the International Criminal Court ( ICC) with regard to its case against president Bashir represents a very plain example of a free-hand manipulation and politicization of the international justice and humanitarian values. It is a show case of how the international institutions and bodies are being exploited to satisfy the influencial players in the international community and to realize thier goals to achieve a global dominance. In pursuing its case against president Bashir the court has been very purposeful and politically motivated. While conflicts in other areas have been very intense and severe in ways far outweigh the strife in Darfur, yet the response of the ICC for Darfur is the strongest and mounted to issuance of an arrest warrent against a sitting president. For example, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) once described as the global deadliest and one with the highest rate of violence against women and girls by the Enough Project in the Strategy Paper ''CAN YOU HEAR CONGO NOW''. In spite of these global rates of violence and sexual abuses, the legal and political implications of this conflict can't be compared with those attributed to the one in Darfur. The magnified response of the international community to Darfuri conflict and the disproportionate attention to Congo reflect a state of double standards and lack of credibility in handling the global issues.
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Once again the people of Enough Project are in a grave need for objectivity and impartiality when it comes to assessing and understanding the situation in Sudan. They are still behaving under the influence of a purposeful media campaign which lacks credibility and professionality in handling issues of Sudan. Being misled and subjective, it's not expected from someone like Maggie Fick to present an objective critique of the 20-year ruling of the NCP in Sudan. However, the rules of professionality and neutality obligate the honest declaration of the ground facts without distortion and magnification.
When you mentioned that president Bashir has waged two wars during the last two decades, it indicates an intentional tarnishing of facts and history realities. The civil war in Southern Sudan had been into being since 1983 six years before Bashir took power in Sudan, so it is not fair saying that he has waged it. The shining fact about this war with regard to him is that he is the one who has brought it to an end through the world-witnessed Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), a fact your post strangely ignored mentioning. Regarding the conflict in Darfur, the second war in your opinion during Bashir two decade rule, no resposible and respected state in the world tolerate rebelion and lawlessness against it and its people without taking any action. The conflict started there as an armed rebelion and the goverment practiced its right in defending itself and its people as every goverment would do. Still president Bashir is not the one who has waged this war, in fact it was imposed on him to fight the rebels who waged it.
In dealing with Sudan, Chad has never been innocent as you try to illustrate it, on May 10 last year forces of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) arrived at Umdurman the national capital of Sudan to sieze power. Thier launching base was Chadian territories where they were trained, equiped, supplied and armed, a provocation that led the goverment of Sudan to cut diplomatic ties with Chad. Uganda is not an exceptional case, during the civil war in the South it offered all kinds of support to the SPLM in thier fighting against the Sudanese army through very exceptional and personal relation between the late Dr.John Garang, the then leader of the SPLM, and the Ugandan president Yori Mousivini.