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From Wanted War Criminal, to Humanitarian Leader, to Governor?
Between the cancellation of a Darfur civil society conference and what I’m about to report, recent events in Sudan are a further illustration of mounting tension around the question of how to bring comprehensive peace in the country.
Sudan’s state news agency announced, according to Reuters, that Khartoum would appoint Ahmed Haroun, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for orchestrating war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, head of South Kordofan province, located on the volatile border between northern and southern Sudan. It was bad enough that a man wanted for his role in the death and displacement of millions of Sudanese would head up the government’s humanitarian ministry; now Haroun will oversee a province that contains key oil fields and the contested town of Abeyi -- where clashes between northern and southern armies last year displaced an estimated 50,000 people -- at a time when the peace deal that helped to end the conflict over that very region looks close to collapsing.
Haroun is infamous for his role in training and directing the Janjaweed militias that are responsible for much of the death and destruction in Darfur, and is perhaps one of the most contentious people Khartoum could have sent to man this frontline between North and South, Sudan’s Kashmir. While the leadership in the South acknowledged that the post was Khartoum’s to appoint, the tension along the North-South border and Haroun’s sordid past makes this move akin to sending the coyote to guard the chicken coop.
Laura Heaton keeps playing her own unsightly ceremonial symphony by calling for hatred in Sudan, now she is giving the name "Sudan Kashmir" to one part of the Sudan with an intention to make a new Darfur out of it. From those words I, as a Sudanese citizen, accuse Luara Heaton for her aggressive attitudes towards my country. Heaton has to know that there are limits that we have to keep to.
All rebels around the world are terrorists except in Sudan and when citizens defend themselves, Laura call them Janjaweed. Do you that there is armed rubbery in
Enough Team has to know that they are the one who will be responsible and will be blamed and charged for what is published at their site.
Judge Ahmed Haroun, is a Sudanese citizen and has the qualifications to hold the post he has been assigned to. Being wanted by anybody doesn't mean anything to him or to his country since the source of the information or the warrant isn't legibly binding to all. The point which I want to make clear is that this ICC of yours may mean something to its own members and that is reasonable but I don't see any point in your topic that it is obligatory to anybody who is looking for a fair court. Anyhow the ICC is, so far, a private sector of its founders and members. We all know that many countries do not recognize it and many are not interested in its membership.
You are kindly asked to mind Iraq Criminal war, Palestine, Afghanistan, US prisons around the world, US air raids against civilians in the name of war against terrorist while they are the only terrorists. I know that no ICC or any other force can question those who kill people in the name of terror. For example what are the excuses which Bush gave to launch its assault on Iraq and where are his justifications now??? What is his explanation after destroying all these countries?? WHERE IS THE CRIMINAL COURT?
We all know that the ICC can't and won't be able to raise a finger against any American in spite of the systematic killing, raping, torturing, and oil looting, open prisons around the world fall of innocent detainees for years without charging
Luara Heaton I am calling your conscious to be fair, those who read you are well aware of what is going on. You can't go on giving false information for ever; the TRUTH will come out one day. I invite you to visit Sudan and see for yourself what kind of people live there, they are unique and you will find that you were mislead and that your ideas about Sudan & Darfur were only fairy tales.