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 Re: A Strategy for Comprehensive Peace in Sudan - New ICG Report (Re: nada ali)
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Darfur could set an example of an arrangement that would save Sudan and bring a comprehensive peace.
An arrangement whereby a broad leadership group of Darfuris, including all the groups mentioned in our reports (posted at www.weaveresofthewind.org, NOT just rebel leaders, established an interim administration in Darfur that was backed up by a no-fly zone and whatever outside ground troops were needed, could be the first step. The representatives of this new administration could then negotiate with Khartoum about national income distribution, transportation systems, and justice matters. The key, of course, is that Khartoum be EXCLUDED from these initial broad organizational meetings of rebels, Diaspora leaders, leaders who have emerged in the camps, Darfuris from Kht and the East, Rizeigat sheikhs and other Darfuri Arab leaders, janjaweed leaders, and others.
The Taliban were excluded from the meeting in Bonn in Nov-Dec 2001, after all. And at least one of the UN officials who helped make that German gathering a successful meeting has promised us he would help make sure that a "Darfuri Bonn" did not degenerate into an Abuja.
To get Khartoum to acquiesce in that kind of meeting, the only kind that could produce a long-term settlement such as Dave Mozersky envisions here, will probably take the simultaneous imposition of a no-fly zone and the targeted personal and economic sanctions long advocated by the ICG, the ENOUGH project, STAND, and others.
Humanitarian organizations worry that Khartoum, in response, would cut off all flights from Khartoum (where many of their planes load up) and shut down much of their operation. Intervening governments should thus assist them in beefing up the supply network anchored in Abéché (Chad), Nigeria (overland), and Libya. They should supply these governments with estimates of what tonnage will be required to supply victims and their own aidworkers. A Berlin Airlift for Darfur (and Chadians, too) until Khartoum decides to deal for real.
The recent changes in EU/French/American relations with Libya could mean that Libya would cooperate in such an exercise. Plugging in Richard Branson;s "Elders,"* which includes Nelson Mandela, who has considerable influence with Khaddafi, might also help in this case.
Once other regions who have suffered from Khartoum's policies see that Darfur has a significant degree of genuine autonomy, and that international would-be interveners have overcome their risk-aversion and their willing self-deception that Khartoum would ever allow a UN-AU hybrid force to do anything to end the radical diminishing of peoples and cultures that Bashir's regime has perpetrated there, these folks in the East, Kordofan, Nubia, Nuba Mountains, and elsewhere may be ready to start dealing themselves.
Sudan might move to a genuine federalism as opposed to the phony federalism they have played with in the past. But it will take a willingness of outsiders to risk political, human, and economic assets in order to accomplish this. And so far not a single country has shown an interest in taking such a risk. Merely to end a genocide.
*Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Mary Robinson and others.
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Khalid Kodi
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