Dear Editor,

As a Sudanese who has lived his life travelling abroad, this is one of the saddest news to read that a terrorist dating back to the nineteen seventies has been deported to the Sudan after all Arabs countries rejected him. This shows what the NCP thugs in Khartoum have turned the history of a peace loving people like the Sudanese people into in a very short period of Time. In the Sudan we fought Two Civil wars between the North and the South  in which both sides lost a considerable number of its citizens. The Darfur war is now on-going, but we never exported our problems beyond our borders. Despite so many Southern refuges in many neighboring countries, Sudanese never abused the hospitalities of our hosts abroad. Sudanese have always been law abiding citizens of the world. In East Africa, Sudanese refugee students are known for their brilliance when it came to education where many of them made it to foreign universities. People like our only Sudanese leader in real terms, Dr. John Garang  De Mabior who was received by four million people across the board of their tribal, religious, ethnic affiliations. They all came from the North, South, East and West to see the Man who have been portrayed as the rebel leader ( al Mutamrit in Arabic ) in the Islamist controlled media  and that shook the confidence of Islamist terrorist leaders who are just  posing as Protectors of Islam and led them to ask themselves why they allowed such a charismatic man to put his feet in Khartoum and so they did what they know best. They claim to protect Islam from who and from what when Islam is even flourishing  in the US where the biggest Jewish lobby  is so powerful. Islam means  a Religion  in which  a believer surrenders to the faith in God voluntarily. Whereas, the Political Islam you preach nowadays  is a surrender to God through the Sword. This is an ancient dogma that led to Crusades and the Jihad which were rejected by both civilizations that  led to Secularism in Christian and Islamic thoughts of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. The NCP Thugs in Khartoum have marginalized the free thinkers of Islam as they did to the Majority of the Sudanese silent voices in the Sudanese political arena. All they import into the Country are the former Taliban, Al Qaeda and the former Black September terrorists thus throwing into the garbage can the good image of the Sudanese  citizen which remained free from being branded as a terrorist until recently. Nowadays we as Sudanese are branded as terrorists thanks to your new brand of imports.

 

I believe in the Sudan where all the Sudanese are treated with dignity and respect, where every citizen has a voice in the issues that concern them. Where the only war will be to eliminate poverty and to bring all the development to neglected sectors of the Society. A nation where the Army protects all the citizens and not become the tool to loot ,plunder communities and destroy their hard –won- livelily  hoods with Impunity just because they do not accept to be Arabs or Muslims. Egypt has more Muslim than Christians but the Muslims did not eliminate Christians despite a very powerful Islamist tendencies there because the Army is their to protect all the Egyptian people. We can only succeed as Sudanese to build a strong prosperous united country or we can destroy it and fragment it to petty states or even Payams as long as we continue to think along the line that we Arab ,Dink, Nuer, Shilluk,Noba, Fur, Beja and so on. In the new Sudan all people of the Sudan should only be identified as Sudanese. Who ever believe that apartheid could be defeated in South Africa, but the majority of its marginalized people.

 

Clement Biong (Mr.)

Seychelles