Congress can help the Sudanese by Lifting Sanctions not by Encouraging

A number of U.S. congressmen and women signed a letter addressed to
President Obama in which concerns regarding Sudan were expressed. The
preoccupying issues were the alleged "marginalization of the peripheries"
and the security as well as the humanitarian condition in South Kordofan,
Blue Nile, and Darfur. And not surprisingly, the blame and vitriol were, as
usual directed towards the goverrunent of Sudan.
Policy must be shaped by facts, and it is clear that there is no ground for the
hostility towards the Sudanese. The Congressmen must take the trouble to
properly inform their ranks. It does not reflect well on the U.S. government
when its officials have to rely on activists and movie stars like George
Clooney to provide the "facts". The credibility of the Satellite Sentinel
Project and its assertions regarding mass graves is nonexistent, as declared
by some U.S. officials in front of these very congressmen. And the
insistence that Sudan carried out an alleged bombing in South Sudan
demonstrates the officials' neglect of facts. To this day, evidence supporting
this claim has not been availed after Sudan made an official request in that
regard.
The minimum duty for anyone interested in the truth is to check and
scrutinize one's sources. After all, misinformation has not only once led the
U.S. to bomb Sudan's Al-Sheefah pharmaceuticals but has also earned it a
disastrous and costly war. It should therefore be said that many of the
activists paraded by congress in the halls of government buildings are
neither reliable sources of facts nor ambassadors of peace. They've
consistently demonstrated an appalling degree of bias and disdain for reality.

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