UNESCO's Silence Towards Damming Nubia!

04:34 AM April, 07 2016

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Nubia Bulletin - March 2016**

Saudi Arabia hosts hundreds of thousands of Nubian expatriates since early sixties of the last century following one of the largest Nubian exodus in modern history when Egypt built its High Dam which wiped out what remained from Egyptian Nubia since the construction of Aswan Dam in 1902 and the following consecutive elevations of the dam. Saudi Arabia will never benefit from destroying Nubia or putting Nubians on the harm way if it wants to invest its money in Sudan especially in Nubia where the Sudanese government sold or rented huge agricultural lands to Arab investors. Sudan has become the second country in Africa after the Congo in selling their lands to foreign investors according to reports from human rights organizations.

Nubians inside Sudan and abroad organized protests against damming Nubia, during March 2016 in Khartoum, Sudan when the riot police and security forces used excessive force to disperse a peaceful protest in front of Rotana Hotel in Khartoum during a joint ministerial Saudi-Sudanese meeting to sign the agreements to finance building three dams in Nubia. In US and UK, Nubians organized demonstrations denouncing the Saudi financing dams in Nubia and sent letters to the Saudi King Salman asking him to refrain from financing dams and destroying Nubia. Saudi authorities haven't yet responded to those letters!

On the other hand, UNESCO hasn't made any comment yet on the Saudi financing of the dams in Nubia and its impact on Nubia which hosts one of the largest archaeological sites of the world of today, nor to the Nubian organizations invitation to UNESCO Director General to visit Nubia or send a fact finding team to see the situation on the ground!

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Did UNESCO Betray The Nubians؟
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Ambassador Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General
Several Nubian organizations and activists invited Ambassador Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO in year 2009 to visit Nubia or send a fact finding team to Nubia in Sudan to see the situation on the ground regarding the dangers of damming Nubia and its archaeological sites and ongoing smuggling of Nubian artifacts. On December 9, 2009, Nubians received a letter from Mr. Francesco Banadrin, Director, World Heritage Center apologizing on behalf of UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova and advising us to contact the UNESCO office in Cairo " which insures the representation of UNESCO for both Egypt and Sudan" ! The problem is that Egypt is the main threat to Nubian artifacts and doesn't consider Nubia as an independent historical entity! The governments of Sudan and Egypt are working jointly to build the dams which will submerge Nubia.

The Arabized Islamist government of Sudan doesn't conceal its hostility to the Nubian history and culture as it considers them as an remnants of paganism and anti Islamic culture.

On the other hand, the "Arab Republic of" Egypt sees Nubia as a threat and competitor to it's historical fame that might distract attention from its glories and attractions and becomes a competitor to its tourism revenues.

It is unfortunate that Nubians are circumvented by the Islamo-Arabic culture of the ruling elites in Egypt and Sudan while the international community is not paying enough attention to what is going on in Nubia despite the continuous protests organized by Nubians in Sudan, Egypt and abroad against damming Nubia and marginalizing Nubians and asking UNESCO for help but it gives a blind eye to Nubia. Nubians expect at least an attention equivalent or even more than that of the UNESCO expedition led by late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan that salvaged only 25% of the the Nubian artifacts affected by the High Dam of Egypt in mid-sixties of last century! or they will consider that a betrayal to Nubia.

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Where is the "ISNS"؟
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Professor William Adams and Professor Nettie Adams at ISNS conference in Vienna 2008
The International Society for Nubian Studies (ISNS), the largest body for Nubiologists has an obligation to save Nubian artifacts and help protecting them from destruction by dams, smugglers and gold scavengers. It is time to call upon the UNESCO and the international community to take an action to preserve Nubian archaeological sites. It is not enough to salvage a part of the Nubian artifacts and let the bigger part of them to be destroyed by dams.

Nubian artifacts are an invaluable part of the international heritage. Preserving them is an international responsibility and a moral obligation as well. Let us work together and be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem by letting destruction of Nubia happen under our watch! Let us rally the international community to launch a second campaign to salvage Nubian monuments and artifacts from destruction by dams and convince Sudan government that dams generate little hydroelectricity compared to the viable everlasting alternatives of generating electricity from solar energy and wind mills while the antiquities are preserved and kept intact for the generations to come.

Nubians will remember with gratitude and appreciation the call made by Professor Herman Bell to save Nubia from destruction. Thank you Professor Bell for being loyal to your love to Nubia. We need all academicians and friends of Nubia to make a big row and call for a second international campaign to salvage Nubian antiquities and archaeological sites.

Professor William Adams, the author of the magnificent book on Nubia: Nubia Corridor to Africa was the leader of UNESCO expedition to salvage Nubian monuments and artifacts in the sixties of last century. Many academicians made magnificent works such as Charles Bonnet who discovered recently the statues of 5 Black Pharaohs, Timothy Kendall, Bruce Williams, the Lobbans and many great academicians.

Nubia needs an international campaign to stop damming Nubia. We call upon ISNS to take the initiative and appeal to UNESCO to launch a second international campaign to salvage Nubians monuments and artifacts. Nubia needs a savior.

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Who are behind this "NO"؟
Bashir Caricataire
Bashir Threatens Nubia!
Omer El-Bashir asks his unicameral parliament last month: "Who is behind this "NO"؟ Nubians in Kajbar were supportive to Kajbar Dam!"

Nubian organizations inside and outside Sudan made an uproar and said it loudly in their protests:
* No to dams in Nubia.
* Abboud's catastrophe will never be repeated.
* Dams will be built on our dead bodies.

On the other hand the Sudanese minister for Electricity and Dams, announced to the media that his government will proceed in building the dams of Dal, Kajbar and El-Sheraik and added that they will convince every Nubian to the importance of dams to them and to Sudan!

Nubians have elected unanimously their representatives to committees against damming Nubia by Dal and Kajbar dams and the people of El-Sheraik area joined them lately.

10% of Sudan's Gold Revenue for Future Generations!
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$10 billions Qatari investment in Sudan's minerals
GOS has embezzled around $100 billions of oil revenues from 2003 to 2011. Now the cash starving GOS is hunting for gold and inviting gold miners from Russia, China, Turkey and many other countries to invest in exploring and mining for gold. The obsolete methods of extracting gold and uncontrolled usage of hazardous and toxic materials such as Potassium Cyanide and mercury beside buried hazardous, chemical wastes in Northern State are alarming.

There is need for UN agencies to intervene and monitor the situation closely and exert pressures on GOS and to monitor and find ways to keep a portion of the gold revenue for the future generations or it will vanish in wilderness like the oil revenues.
Gold hunters in Sudan

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From our archives: Nubians protesting against dams in front of the United Nations building in 2008
Nubia Project Bulletin - 151 Danbury Street, SW Washington, DC 20032
Webpage: Nubia Project email: [email protected] - Tel. (202)718-6687 - Fax: (202)664-5223



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