I do not understand why the full names of
our fallen peacekeepers in Darfur had not been declared yesterday. I have been following the official and unofficial media in order to know the names of our fallen soldiers in Darfur to pay respect for them and their families but it seems that it was not allowed from
UNAMID to declare their names for some reason because I couldn't find their names either in international websites except after arriving back home in coffins. All what I found was the name of one of the three injured soldiers in the attack :
Mohamed Hussein
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Regardless of their names , I believe nothing can stop us from paying our proper respect to those peacekeepers May Allah bless their souls. If you are interesting in knowing their names , they were late
Ahmed Soliman Mohamed Soliman and Mahmoud Reda Mohamed Jad
I hope we continue remembering their names after their return , they are not less important than the Ketermaya's lynching victim with my all due respect.
May Allah bless the souls of our fallen soldiers everywhere
A sad loss for their families and an honourable way to go.
ReplyDeleteBut ironic that Egyptian 'peacekeepers' are allowed in Sudan, when a problem faced by our country since the mid 90's has been precisely due to Egyptian troops illegally 'occupying' Sudanese territory in the Halayeb triangle.
One day policymakers who represent the will of the Sudanese people will be at the helm - sooner or later.
أكثر من (12) سودانياً من حلايب معتقلون بالسجون المصرية....أسر المعتقلين تناشد الحكومتين السودانية والمصرية باطلاق سراحهم
ReplyDeletehttp://alsudani.sd/local-news/16490---12-------------.html
I wonder if this 'crisis' will ever get an objective post dedicated to it.
Or will hypocrisy reign supreme - whereby people 'selectively' condemn 'illegal occupation' whilst turning a blind eye to it in other places...
@sudanese optimist
ReplyDeleteHalayeb is disputed.. the British (thx for screwing the world btw) added it to Sudan, a province at the time, for administrative reasons.. the problem should have solved when Sudan regained it's independence but it didn't.
What's amazing is that you focus on this now while your country is in such a mess.. the south is gonna secede, Darfur is a bloody mess to say the least and your president is wanted for crimes against humanity..
@ Anonymous - your views are not at all surprising - they represent a superficial, stereotypical line of thought that is recycled by Egyptians for more than half a Century, that we Sudanese have become weary of and accustomed to.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, how is the secession of South Sudan a problem?
Secondly how do other problems take anything away from 'a just cause', one of the illegal military occupation of a territory and its people?
I would respectfully like to say that you have obviously not been to Sudan, nor do you know much first-hand information on it since we in Sudan do not view the secession of the South as a calamity - in stark opposition to the position taken up by Egypt in order to serve its water security interests.
The secession of the South is the constitutional right of the peoples of South Sudan.
If we in North Sudan have recognised this right which is enshrined in Public International Law and for which millions of *Sudanese* lost their lives - what is the problem?
Where is the logic in opposing the agreement to either live in peace or to separate peacefully?
As for the stereotypical focus by Egypt on Sudan's problems, by fomenting Sudan's problems (that come with its complex demography and geography) Egypt can continue to buy time and stave off upstream threats to its status as the principal benefitor from the Nile.
What do you know about the history and geography of Darfur or its demography and the conflicts that have taken part there in recent history?
Darfur's problems are not intractable.
As for the President, the ICC indictment doesn't really affect much 'on the ground'.
Unfortunately for Egypt - the only constant in life is change (with regards to the casting and re-casting of Sudan and the upstream Nile basins as permanently weak) Sudan has become an oil exporting country and Ethiopia's economy is growing at a faster rate than Egypt's and Chinese firms are willing to (and have successfully) built dams in both countries.
You would be well advised to take a page out of North Africa's experience - Morocco illegally occupies the Western Sahara and more than 250,000 people live in camps since the 1970's yet the problem of the Western Sahara does not define Morocco.
And finally with regards to Halayeb - yes Halayeb is disputed.
We know that the land and its people are Sudanese - and you believe otherwise.
So why not allow the case to be settled once and for all through *international aribitration* in the the Permanent Court of International Arbitration in exactly the same manner you did with your dispute over Taba with Israel?
Halayeb is referred to as being under illegal military occupation in the Sudanese media and has been referred to as such by former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi, and was referred to as an outstanding problem by Al-Mirghani (who represent Sudan's traditional party politics).
And just causes remain just.
The Palestinian cause is just as important as it was prior to the power struggle between Hamas and the PLO and the occupation of Halayeb will remain the focus of the Sudanese people (which you know so little of) until the dispute is put before international arbitration or Halayeb is liberated from the Egyptian troops who continue to occupy it militarily.
All I meant to say is that it's surprising to see a Sudanese focusing on Halayab while there are other pressing issues for Sudan, especially on a post about peacekeepers dying in Darfur..if you find that superficial, stereotypical or what ever then perhaps that's a bit prejudice of you.
ReplyDeleteTo keep it short.. we were taught in school that the 22nd parallel north line is our border. If Mubarak agrees to international arbitrition it would really piss ppl off and make him look bad, and he really doesn't need 1 more reason for ppl to hate him right now.
So here we are.. stuck with two military "governments" and lots of propaganda.. anyway good luck to you brother may your optimims pay off.
Well it is ironic that the government under whose tenure Halayeb was illegally militarily occupied agrees to have troops from the occupying State as peace-keepers!
ReplyDeleteAlso, how many Sudanese people do you know?
The occupation of Halayeb is a constant thorn in the collective side of the Sudanese people and many Sudanese verbalise their dissatisfaction with it as mentioned in my response to your post.
Illegal military occupation shouldn't be about an 80-something year old man who's in power.
It was President Mubarak who gave the decision to illegally occupy Halayeb.
Does that take anything away from the Nasser and Sadat periods when Halayeb was rightfully under Sudanese sovereignty????
Your rationale as to why international arbitration should not take place is interesting and flies in the face of the mass propaganda that we Sudanese are used to hearing from official Egypt and Egyptians.
We are told incessant slogans about how the ties between Egypt and Sudan (the people before the governments) are: organic, eternal, interdependent etc...
And any crises that occur are put down to politics and not to the people (check out Zeinobia's post on Egypt revoking an invitation for a Ugandan team to play football in Cairo).
What you're saying is that it's the people who take a tough line, based on 'what they're taught in school' - as if that is scripture.
And this rationale is tautological - the government decides to do something immoral that changes a long established norm, this action corresponds with a line of propaganda taught at schools, people believe the propaganda through reconciling doctrine and action, the government can therefore not do anything to rectify its wrongs.
Now it's my turn to ask, don't you have more pressing problems in Egypt other than occupied Halayeb which is nothing but a big prison and whose people are Sudanese?
Also, why are you referring to me as a sibling and assuming I'm male?