07-27-2004, 02:47 AM
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Darfur crisis the result of years of US sponsored terrorism in Southern Sudan
July 26, 2004 www.1924.org
The situation in the Darfur region of Sudan has become the new focus of the western world, with reports of an estimated one million people being displaced and ten thousand being killed. There has been pressure largely driven by the international community, and America in particular, to act in order to prevent a catastrophe. US House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California recently stated, "We must act now to avoid more slaughter and avoid a repetition of the genocide in Rwanda 10 years ago. This is a crisis, an emergency. We have the legal obligation under international law to act.”
Donald Payne, Democratic representative from New Jersey, told a press conference, "We urge the Secretary of State, Colin Powell to support an immediate intervention to stop the killing. If we fail to act a million people could die before the end of the year.”
The Americans have laid the blame for the events in the Darfur squarely at the doorstep of the Sudanese government, whom it claims are sponsoring militias known as the ‘Janjaweed’ to rampage and kill people. President Bush recently stated,
"They [sudanese government] must stop Janjaweed violence, they must provide access to humanitarian relief for the people who suffer," he said in a speech in Washington.
Such an outcry from the US and western governments would seem to imply that the situation in Sudan was its own making and not through outside interference. However the situation is far from that, and the Americans have been actively stoking the flames for many years. A brief examination of Sudan shows that the South of the country has much of the natural resources and this is where the US has been trying to secure its influence, and has used a number of policies to achieve these aims.
The Americans have for many years actively funded a terrorist rebel militia, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), to fight against the Sudanese government and also to spread disenchantment in the South against the Northern government. This group has been committed untold atrocities throughout Sudan both against government troops as well as civilians, Muslim and Christian. It was under President Clinton that these terrorist militias were given the financial backing to rise up against the Sudanese governments and this policy has been maintained by the Bush administration.
In October 1999 Madeline Albright the then Secretary of State met with the terrorist leader of the SPLA, John Garang. When Madeline Albright met Garang she extended the hand of American friendship and committed to providing huge amounts of “humanitarian aid”. This charitable venture was a means to channel vast quantities of money towards the terrorist cause of the SPLA, which at that point had a flagging military fund.
The Economist magazine described the SPLA as “little more than an armed gang of Dinkas… killing, looting and raping. Its indifference, almost animosity, towards the people it was supposed to be ‘liberating’ was all too clear.” [The Economist, March 1998]
The Sunday Times revealed that the Clinton administration was supporting the terrorist SPLA in order to “… destabilize the government of Sudan... More than $20m of military equipment, including radios, uniforms and tents will be shipped to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda in the next few weeks. Although the equipment is earmarked for the armed forces of those countries, much of it will be passed on to the SPLA, which is preparing an offensive against the government in Khartoum.” [The Sunday Times, 17th November 1996].
Such blatant support and funding by America for a terrorist movement was completely ignored by the western governments, even though it was being reported widely. The SPLA were freely waging tyranny by destroying mosques, tearing up of copies of the Qur’an as they did in Tawreet and targeting the centres for the memorization of the Noble Qur’an in Hamshkureeb. They organised the bombing of Muslims during Fajr prayer and chose the 27th Rajab, the day of Israa and Mi’raj, as the time of heightened aggression.
Yet amidst all this butchery and oppression, they constantly repeat the mantra that they are being oppressed due to the application of the laws of Islam, even though it is clear that such laws are not applied. They have declared that they will continue to fight until the Sudanese government abolishes the Islamic laws. All of this confirms the extent of their hidden hatred and their blatant hostility towards Islam and the Muslims. It also confirms these terrorist rebels are working in a crusader war against Islam, not only to kill Muslims but also to prevent the application of Islam.
The Americans have sponsored this terrorist movement in order to separate Sudan into two separate entities, the North and South, along ethnic and religious lines. This colonialist plan of divide and conquer has been a recurring style used by the western colonialists to facilitate their hegemony over the Muslim world. This policy has been used for many hundreds of years, and was a means to destroy the Islamic Khilafah through the funding and supporting of autonomous entities within the state, that were encouraged to rebel and separate. An example of this was the rebellion of ibn Saud with the help of the British, which led to the establishment of the Saudi regime in the land that was known as Hijaz – a wilayah of the Islamic Khilafah. More recent examples show the creation of Kashmir as a conflict zone, and the recent and ongoing attempts to carve up Iraq into three states; Sunni, Shia and Kurd. Such political manoeuvres have resulted in more than fifty ineffective entities in the Muslim world, where previously only one had existed.
The sponsorship of terrorists is actually quite a normal state of affairs for the American regime. They were able to hire a terrorist militia in the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, which were used to fight and remove the Taliban. This occurred despite the wide spread atrocities being committed by the Northern Alliance.
The Guardian backed up this analogy by comparing the events in Sudan with US actions in South America,
“Welcome to the 1980s. Long live Ronald Reagan. Remember the scenario - a rebel group being trained and armed by the CIA to topple a sovereign government, cross-border incursions from secluded camps, and the whole de-stabilization exercise backed by international sanctions and a massive propaganda campaign. It sounds like Nicaragua or Angola circa 1984. In fact it’s Sudan 1998.” [The Guardian, 1 May 1998]
However, the government in Sudan is not without blame, rather, they have been complicit in the plans of the Americans. They have taken political actions which have led to the SPLA being granted political weight and clout, and have also agreed plans that would see Sudan split into two. The Sudanese governments oppression in Darfur, which they continue even today, is giving licence and credibility for international intervention. With such international focus growing, it will only be a matter of time when foreign troops move in, and Sudan is formally split into two.
Such is the complicated and devious nature of the America’s political games. They stoke the fires of death and destruction, often when the enemy is no more than a puppet, in order to bring about a climate for political change, which they then fashion by their own hands under the guise of ‘humanitarian intervention’.
The time has come for the Muslims to realize the true aims of the western world and the puppet regimes that preside over the Muslims on behalf of the West. The Muslim world must act to prevent its lands from being split ever further into oblivion, to the point that it poses no threat or resistance to any force on earth. The Muslims must realise that the secular political institutions that have been forced upon the Muslim lands, work only to serve the western aims. It is by calling for the implementation of the Islamic political system, and through Islamic politics, that Muslims have a future that will lead to the undoing of the ‘divide and conquer’ policies of the West.
The Prophet Muhammed (saw) indicated the importance and obligation of maintaining political unity in the Islamic world,
مَنْ أتاكم وأمرُكُم جميعٌ على رجل واحد يريد أن يشقّ عصاكم،أو يُفرّق جماعتكم فاقتلوه
“Whoever comes to you, while your affairs are united under one man, and wishes to break your unity then kill him.”
The Muslim world can only have a voice and a future by uniting under one Islamic political system, the Islamic Khilafah.