Unfortunately, the world does not understand the problems in Darfur. People should know more than the pictures are saying. These pictures are similar to so many picks from other countries in our misfortunate continent.
This problem in Sudan like the other marginal regions problems is created by two kinds of dictatorship in Sudan. Those two kinds of dictatorship are the civil dictatorship and the military dictatorship. The people of Darfur are Muslims but that's not the case. The problem has begun when both the civil dictatorship and the military dictatorship supported the armed robbery gangs.
Some of those gangs have been developed to form political armed fronts. Some of the neighbours of Sudan played also the negative role to export their problems to Sudan through the marginal regions of Sudan like Darfur.
I say some of them are not pleased to see these million square miles united under a strong democratic government. So, the problem has been exploited further to say there's a tribal cleansing in Sudan which is not true as stated above. And I know, from my own political experiences, as a journalist for more than 30 years, those who would like to see the big Sudan divided between them.
We have got some big zones of the Fur inhabitants in so many northern cities and they're living nicely with their brothers from other regions. From my own experience while I was a child one of the Fur was living just next to my father's shop. And my father left him so many times to observe his shop while he was shopping in the big market. They were friends. They trusted each other. They ate together, played local domino together with other Fur and enjoyed their time visiting each other on the two Eids as Muslims.
If you look again to these pictures of the ladies, men and their children, from Darfur, make sure that they look like other Sudanese from the north or from the east. We're all black people. The northerners are not coming from Mars.
I am saying again the problem has been created by those two kinds of dictatorship. They have created the marginal regions, robbed the national treasury and left us to the dust in the north, west, east and south.
So, the media is wrong when it speaks about cleansing and it's biased sometimes.
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They have interests of course. I think it's very easy those days to collect the right information from the right people.
What do you know yourself about the media to criticize it?
Khalid, this is a great post. Thank you. I am still remembering your reports from Port Sudan you published in London and made those dictators while they were in the opposition crazy to demonstrate and destroy all those beautiful statues we once had in Port Sudan.
I thought once upon a time, they'll retire as soon as they fill their pockets from the national treasury. This feeling was because of that their illegal marginal Dollars market during their opposition to the government has not made them rich enough. But, it seems they'll not leave power, since there are no qualified Sudanese politicians these days.
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