Articles

Mahgoub El-Tigani, Ph.D.
Sudanese Writers' Union (in exile)
 

Yesterday (Dec. 24, 2000) the Jazeera showed a special meeting with the Sudan Maniac, Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir.

The Maniac reiterated stupid lies of the sort of "Inqaz came to straighten the chaos of the political parties. We have done our job: First we had to enforce tight security with an iron-fist The Sudanese now are well-prepared to enjoy the correct politics the Inqaz made. Freedoms ... Constitution Elections  Nimeiri  ta ta ta ...ta ta ta..."

Too many lies!

Too much stupid evaluation for any audience to take!

Unbearable dishonesty!

The moment the Maniac announced "With the Umma party, we are now in-between musharaka (participation) and muaisha (coexistence)," the Sudanese flag at his right hand started to bleed the blood of 2 millions citizens the Maniac ordered killing by air bombing. To these innocent Sudanese, many other thousands the Maniac also killed included the victims of security tortures to death, and the massacre of the Ailafoun Conscription Camp the Maniac personally committed as Commander-in-Chief of the Army.

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This small town to the south of Khartoum was, astonishingly, the same place that the Maniac frighteningly used as a hiding in April 24, 1990, to save himself the arrest and trial of the Ramadan Rectification Movement.  Those days, the other members of the Inqaz Revolution Council, on turn, hastily threw away their military uniforms, dressed up in civilian clothes, and ran
hiding all over the place far away from the scene of the events.

Supposedly, the Inqaz coup officers were leaders of the Sudanese Armed Forces. Supposedly, they were all expected to meet with the armed forces at that particular time. In reality, however, they had to disappear in civilian clothes because the forces they were supposed to lead already joined Al-Kadaro and Karar and their colleagues who were then leading the Armed Forces and moving to arrest the escapee Inqaz maniacs.

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The Sudanese members of the Armed Forces and Disciplinary Forces, in particular, recall the name of Colonel Mohamed Ahmed Gasim who was extra-judicially killed with the other martyrs, regulars or officers, by the direct orders of Omer Al-Bashir, Zubair Mohamed Sakih, Ibrahim Shamsaldeen, and the other maniacs. Martyr Gasim played a significant role in
the April Initifada. The maniac was his schoolmate at the Khartoum Secondary School, the Military College, and the actual military service for 25 years.

The treacherous acts Omer Bashir committed against Gasim reflected the superior maniac quality of Mr. Omer Hassan. Omer betrayed his life-long friend with the Swar Al-Dahab Transitional Council in 1985 to have him dismissed from service. The Martyr General Fathi Ahmed Ali, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, reinstated the gallant Colonel Gasim, however, later in 1987 with his full rank.

On April 21, Gasim was arrested and detained on the roof of the State Security Building. He was brutally tortured by the military intelligence security elements of Ali Nafi' and his accomplices. The early hours of April 25, 1990, the Inqaz junta killed Gasim without any proper trial in gross violation of the army laws. The NIF military and civilian Shura group took an active part in the execution show - another unprecedented violation of the Sudanese Army rules. Those days, that Cult Council was the highest body of authority Hassan Turabi and Omer Bashir controlled and was the actual ruler of Sudan, the real culprit.

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The Mihaira brave magazine that Mr. Abdelrahman edits and publishes in the International Internet contributed with an interesting issue on the Sudanese Armed Forces Martyrs. Mihaira highlighted the Ramadan Movement in collaboration with the National Committee on the Ramadan Rectification Movement, the committee that gave a touching farewell to the late Ustaz Mohamed Haj Al-Amin, the Sudanse unions' leader a few weeks ago. One reads in Mihaira excellent bibliographies on the Ramadan Martyrs.

The agenda of the Ramadan Movement were largely popular. The Movement aimed to restore the democratic life to the country. It wanted to cancel all the Inqaz constitutional decrees (the notorious Maraseem of Hassan Turabi). These were to be replaced with a constitutional charter based on the recognition of all fundamental freedoms, independent judiciary, and the rule of law.

The Movement aimed to insure separation of government branches, freedom of scientific research, independence of the trades unions movement and organizations, the non-artisan nature and administration of Sudan army and disciplinary forces as well the public service and the national media.

The Ramadan Rectification Movement aimed to apply a foreign policy that would emphasize Sudan's sisterly relations with all neighbors and the rejection of pacts. The Movement came to stand by the side of all liberation movements, anti-zionism, and anti-apartheid.

Most important, the Movement wanted to allow full freedom to political parties, unions, and voluntary associations, freedom of the press and publication, the release of all political prisoners, and reinstating of all employees and workers the Inqaz unlawfully dismissed.

On security issues, the Ramadan Movement came to put to trial all those who shared in the Inqaz coup that destroyed the democratic government, and the corrupted ones as well before the independent judiciary. The Movement aimed to demobilize all militias by law.

That was a full political program, progressively and democratically oriented. Sudan still needs the same steps and aims. They have been fully accommodated in the NDA Comprehensive Resolutions to put an end to the NIF quagmire.

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When Omer Bashir started talking, the Sudanese watching the special interview with the Jazeera felt with immense disgust that the white turban of the Maniac and his white garment were all filled with blood. They saw the silver screen immediately turning into a very ugly, shaky, and frightened red. There was a river of blood that covered the whole screen. There was great anger at the moment.

Suddenly, the silver screen was filled with the victims. They came over the Maniac in millions. The Sudanese watching the interview started shouting in great passion. All said in one word with one breath, "Treacherous!" "Coward!" "To Hell ya Bashir!" "Down Down NIF!" "Justice must be done!" All exclaimed in anger  and the neighboring streets were all filled with angry demonstrators chanting and shaking the earth under their feet "To Hell ya Bashir!"

The silver screen became an earthquake!

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The families of many innocent victims of the maniac regime, children, women, elderly, civilians and military, watching the private interview were highly affected. They were watching with an unbreakable determination to throw to hell the maniac regime and the maniac president.

With the strongest condemnation of the extra judicial killings that the Maniac committed to millions of the innocent citizens, including the Ramadan 1990 soldiers and officers of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and the tortures in ghost houses under the direct involvement of his party, the NIF savages.

That was the only use of showing the Maniac who was lying to his teeth, with blood flowing all over the place while he talked that horrible night at the Jazeera t.v.