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 NO Place to Hide!
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I am really very sad and depressed and thinking a lot about the meaning of our lives as human beings if we jeopardize other people’s lives all the time. In particular , I am talking about our government continuous violation and abuse of people of southern Sudan. The escalation of malnourished children and the high morbidity and mortality among them, the number of deaths and displaced people as a result from the war is really devastating and heartbreaking. What led me to experience all these harmful feelings is that I was watching a provocative documentary film produced by the US Committee for Refugees which is a non-profit, humanitarian organization. This film is called ( No Place to Hide) shows the devastating results of the routine aerial bombing of schools, hospitals, markets, and other civilian targets in the south by the Sudanese government. In 2000 alone, the government planes bombed civilian sites in the south at least 167 times. To reveal more the Sudanese government launches those attacks in particular against those who are living in villages surrounding the newly discovered oil pipelines for the purpose of ensuring the government control over the newly discovered oil fields.
Statistics show that more than two million Sudanese have died in the longest uninterrupted civil war in the world, now in its 20 th year. Another 4.5 million civilians have had to flee their homes to escape the fighting. Since the National Islamic Front (NIF) came to power in Sudan in 1989, this regime has been adopting very aggressive practices to abuse human rights. Claims against government of Sudan include violations of the rights to life, health care, free movement, and the enjoyment of one’s property. The government of Sudan has been a target of worldwide criticism and increasing U.S. opposition. The international community continues to press the government of Sudan to take concrete steps to improve its record to address the most fundamental needs of its people. In 1996, the United States imposed economic sanctions against Sudan because the United States identified Sudan as a state sponsor of international terrorism.
The civil war started in 1983 and a real solution to the conflict appears to be elusive. The war is running between the Arab-Muslim in the North who run the country through successive military and democratic regimes since independence from the UK in 1956 and the black Christians in the South. The fighting that taking place in the area of Southern Sudan has uprooted millions of southern Sudanese and brought farming to a halt and caused the disintegration of whole communities. Famine and diseases directly affected millions of southerners who fled their areas. Beside this, the war has a direct impact on the Sudanese economy, which has significantly affected the ability of the government of Sudan (GOS) to invest in services, infrastructure, health care and development. According to the Washington base population crisis committee, Sudan is among the five countries with the worst score on its “human suffering index” which takes into account such factors as the availability of clean drinking water, daily calorie intake, enrollment in secondary schools, political freedom, civil rights and life expectancy.
Just to cite an example of the government ignorance of the humanitarian needs of southern people, in 1998, a largely man-made famine affected an estimated 2.5 million people of Southern Sudan. The government in Khartoum denied humanitarian international agencies access to the famine zone for the number of months needed to assure widespread and loss of life. Civilians were caught in a starvation trap.
Despite Sudan’s severe problems, nature is very generous with Sudan; Sudan is Africa’s largest country, with rich resources such as vast fertile arable land, water resources, and huge wealth of livestock. The country’s economy is almost depends on the agricultural sector. Unfortunately, the government of Sudan completely failed to positively utilize all these valuable gifts from nature. In fact, successive Sudanese governments have successfully turned the country from the “world bread basket” as it was expecting in the mid of 1950s to a country known over the world for its failure to feed its own people let alone the rest of the world.
So, do you think there is any hope for our country to stand on its feet one day and leave behind all this stupid conflicts and start to build for the sake of its own people a real “civilized model?”
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