With U.S. insistence Sudan is on the brink of separating into five states, according to remarks attributed to President Omar Bashir in a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, recently.
Dividing Sudan into five states was relayed by John Sullivan U.S. Deputy Secretary of State to Sudan Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour during a visit last month, and brought up again during Bashir’s visit to Russia, begging Putin (of all people) for protection from the evil American Empire.
Bashir accused America of fomenting the conflicts in Sudan, Yemen and Syria, and with Russia’s help he would remain in power. Sudan is loaded with natural resources, including lots of Gold, and with proper protection Putin can have most of it.
“We need protection from the U.S. aggressive actions.”
Bashir is like a cat with nine lives. He will do whatever it takes to stay in power—that was gained in 1989—by overthrowing an elected president.
But he may be at the point of no return. He recently arrested former Arab Janjaweed leader Musa Hilal an old accomplish of his during the Darfur genocide campaign, when Black Africans in Darfur unwillingly parted from their lands in favor of Arab tribes. In the process more than a million Non-Arab Black Darfurians were displaced and in excess of 250,000 killed. Now Hilal is locked up in Khartoum and charged with murder in the death of a high ranking officer in Sudan’s Army, as they were trying to collect guns in the volatile Darfur region.
Officially Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Courts for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Darfur.
Bashir is now reaping what he sowed, as Hilal, leader of the Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council has turned on him, and is fighting for a separate state, seeking financial and military help from East Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar to separate Darfur from Sudan.
South Sudan gained independence from the North in 2011 and in doing so, relieved Sudan of 75 percent of its oil. The South charged the North with discrimination, human rights, and religious biases as South Sudan is majority Christian.
Other areas of conflicts in Sudan are South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, controlled by the Sudan Revolutionary Front and Allies, seeking self determination on whether to remain part of Sudan or merge with South. Lots of oil in these areas of conflict and Bashir is seeking peace in order to maintain control.
Sudan society is based on Islamic law, and the Arab leader Bashir has kept a close association with multiple Arab governments over the decades, for funding, in order to institute a program of arabisation.
It is time for Bashir to go quietly, and when he is gone, Sudan should install new leadership that promote Pan-Africanism over Pan-Arabism.
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