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July 2, 2016 (ED DAEIN) - Governor of East Darfur State Anas Omer has issued a general amnesty for the outlaws and those who are wanted by justice authorities for committing crimes in his state.

East Darfur governor Anas Omer (Photo Ashorooq TV)

Addressing a social activity organized by the ruling National Congress Party at El Firdous locality on Friday, the governor said the greatness of Ramadan provides an opportunity for forgiveness, and to grant a general amnesty for the outlaws who committed a crime in the past months, especially those who have been officially wanted by the justice and legal authorities in East Darfur.

The governor has also stressed the importance of opening a new chapter to achieve development projects in the state, pointing to need to stabilize the security situation in the state.

The governor went on to say that “the government cannot continue antagonizing any person as long as it is responsible for protecting the citizens”.

The governor also has called for forgiveness, citing a verse from the Holy Quran that calls for forgiveness. “Those who showed forgiveness will be rewarded by Allah”, he pointed out.

On 18 April, suspected tribal gunmen fired R.P.G. shells targeting East Darfur governor's house. Six of the governor's guards have been killed in the attack.

The shells, which fell on a nearby house, have also killed two women and wounded a child as well as four students.

The attack, which burned down the house of the governor, is said to be carried out by Rezeigat Savanna Militia members to protest against the death of a leading member of a Rezeigat militia.

It was also preceded by clashes between the Rezeigat and gunmen belonging to their arch-rival Maalia tribe, where 12 people were killed over stolen camels in Yassin county in East Darfur.

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July 2, 2016 (JUBA)- The newly appointed Governor of Wau state, Andrea Mayar Achor, has unveiled his plans to restore stability in a region, which experienced violent onflict in whereby over 40 people were killed, according to the national government spokesperson.

South Sudan's information and broadcasting minister, Michael Makuei Lueth told reporters last week that government had formed a high level committee led by the minister of health, Riek Gai Kok to visit Wau town to establish the circumstances behind the violence, which forced out hundreds of civilians from their homes into churches and premises of the United Nations in search of security as well a protection.

He said the bodies of 39 civilians, including two Sudanese traders and four police personnel, who were allegedly killed while guarding and protecting properties of civilians who fled their homes, were discovered.

The official did not elaborate on the circumstance in which police personnel were killed.

Speaking exclusively to Sudan Tribune from Wau town on Saturday, Governor Achor said the investigation committee from Juba had arrived and started their work in town.

“The committee has come and they have started their work,” Achor told Sudan Tribune.

Achor said the security situation had returned to normal and people in town have resumed their normal activities after giving directive to security forces to lift restriction on movement of humanitarian workers and the people to provide and access services.

“After consultations with the heads of all the security organs, our SPLA commanders and representatives of the different communities in Wau, I gave out directives to security organs to lift restriction on the movement of the people in town so that people are able to provide and access services. Now the security situation has improved. All the checkpoints have been removed and clear directives have been issued by the security committee to the army not to prevent any citizens from moving”, he explained.

The governor said that he had informed all the humanitarian organizations in the state to move freely at any time during the day and night to help citizens, explaining these directives have been communicated to the public to know through microphones and letters in the case of other governmental institutions.

"The first priority now is to stabilize the security situation and the second phase is to talk to the people to come together and say what happened so that a way forward is found. Talking to people is very important because our values are stronger than hatred, killings and destruction”, he explained.

The third phase, he added, is to open up for reconciliation, forgiveness and accept one another in order to live in peace and harmony as one family again as it was before.

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July 2, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's Ministry of International Cooperation on Saturday said it would review the national strategy on foreign aid in order to allocate it in an optimal way.

International cooperation minister Kamaleldin Hassan (SUNA photo)

On Saturday, the Minister of International Cooperation Kamal al-Din Hassan Ali held a meeting with the members of the commission in charge of reviewing the national strategy on foreign aid including representatives from the relevant ministries and the Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS) in the presence of the State Minister of Finance Magdi Hassn Yassin.

He told reporters following the meeting, that they began consultations to develop a precise vision to review the national strategy on foreign aid according to the new realities which require controlling the foreign aid and using it in an optimal way and to better define the relationship between Sudan and the donors.

Ali further said that the strategy seeks to define the aid and how it could be used, pointing the review would focus on the international principles included in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (PDAE).

In February 2005, international community came together at the Paris High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. At the Paris meeting, more than 100 signatories—from donor and developing-country governments, multilateral donor agencies, regional development banks and international agencies—endorsed the PDAE.

The PDAE is a roadmap to improve the quality of aid and its impact on development. It gives a series of specific implementation measures and establishes a monitoring system to assess progress and ensure that donors and recipients hold each other accountable for their commitments.

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July 2, 2016 (NYALA) - Darfur's internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees association has welcomed the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) resolution to extend the mandate of the hybrid peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) for additional year.

Peacekeepers from the hybrid African Union-United Nations operation in Darfur (UNAMID) patrol the damaged and empty Labado village in South Darfur on 10 December 2013 (Photo: Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

On Wednesday, the UNSC unanimously decided to extend UNAMID's mandate until 30 June 2017, stressing that the situation in the western Sudan region continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security.

Deputy Chairman of the IDPs and refugees association Adam Abdalla Idris told Sudan Tribune on Saturday that the resolution has aborted a “government conspiracy” to exit the mission before ending the tragedy of the IDPs and refugees.

He stressed that the humanitarian situation of the IDPs and refugees has not yet improved, pointing to the decline in food rations provided by the World Food Programme (WFP).

Idris also pointed to the growing numbers of IDPs particularly in areas around Jebel Marra, saying any attempts to exit the UNAMID would again endanger civilians' lives.

He underscored the need to mandate the mission's troops to protect the IDPs against armed militias, pointing that UNAMID failed to defend the IDPs who grow crops and collect firewood from around the camps against the continued attacks by those militias.

UN agencies estimate that over 300,000 people were killed in Darfur conflict since 2003, and over 2.5 million were displaced.

UNAMID has been deployed in Darfur since 2007 with a mandate to stem violence against civilians in the restive region.

It is the world's second largest international peacekeeping force with an annual budget of $1.35 billion and almost 20,000 troops.

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July 2, 2016 (JUBA) - Lecturers of the five public universities in South Sudan have announced halting a strike after receiving assurances from the government their demands would be met in due course.

Philip Finish Apollo, Chairperson of the Teaching Staff at the University of Juba and the spokesperson of the coalition of lecturers from the five public universities told reporters on Saturday that the decision was made at the general assembly meeting held on Thursday to review progress made on demands.

Apollo acknowledged the receipt of the salaries for two months and promised to pay the remaining allowances in instalments. He however said they would resume should the government renege.

“It was decided in the general assembly meeting held on Thursday to halt the strike temporary", said Apollo.

"They (officials from ministries of finance and higher education) promised that they will pay us in instalments. So the general assembly agreed to lift the strike from today up to the end of September,” he further said.

Apollo called on all students of the five public universities to attend lectures and asked the administration of the affected higher learning institutions in the country to adjust their calendars and timetables to cover the time lost due to strike.

The decision to call off the strike followed a call by the heads of schools from the University of Juba, the lead university in the country, on lecturers to end the strike, saying it was no longer justifiable after salaries for the months of March, April and May were paid.

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July 1, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudan government has announced plans to amend the Mining Act to reduce area given to companies and relax preliminary requirements for exploration.

Gold panners in Nanakanak, Eastern Equatoria state, South Sudan. (Source: Hannah McNeish/IRIN)

The proposal, an official said, was presented to the council of ministers, which approved it.

“The minister mining is instructed to coordinate with the minister of justice [Paulino Wanawilla] to make necessary legislation to amend the mining act and present to parliament,” information minister, Michael Makuei told reporters on Friday last week.

The Mining Act 2012, he said, gives exploration companies, large areas for exploration and place many procedures that “actual mining activities.” Makuei did not mention the size land given to mining companies or the specific procedures that impede exploration.

The mining minister, Taban Deng Gai on Thursday met President Salva Kiir on the proposed amendment to the country's Mining Act.

“We discussed the need to invest in minerals exploration [beside oil] to booster our revenues,” Taban told state-owned SSBC after meeting the president.

However, the information minister said on Friday that the minister of finance David Deng Athorbei has been instructed to fund necessary steps required by mining ministry to expedite the amendment process. The finance docket has also been asked to facilitate farming efforts presented by the Agriculture Minister Lam Akol Ajawin on Friday.

South Sudan, which relies on oil revenue for more than 90% of national income, is diversifying its economy in the light of lowering global oil prices.

Amending the country's Mining Act would require justice ministry to table amendment bill in parliament. But the National Legislative Assembly, which is supposed to be expanded to 400 from the current 335 MPs in accordance to the peace agreement, is not yet constituted due to disagreement over selection of the speaker for Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA).

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July 2, 2016 (JUBA) –The United Nation's Children Funds (UNICEF) said it needs upto $3 million to respond to the recent crisis in South Sudan's town of Wau where it intends to immunize 13,000 children against measles.

UNICEF says children continue experience extreme suffering as a result of conflict in South Sudan and remain vulnerable to disease outbreaks (Photo: F. Noy/UNHCR)

"UNICEF is launching today an urgent measles immunization campaign to protect 13,000 children displaced by fighting in the city of Wau, in South Sudan,” the agency said in a statement.

“UNICEF's funding requirement for the Wau response is US$ 3 million of which just half is available,” it added.

Over 40 people, most of them civilians, were killed in last week's fighting in Wau town with the South Sudanese government blaming the attack on “criminals and bandits”.

Thousands of civilians fled Wau town and others have taken refuge at the UN compound.

UNICEF said its three-day campaign is focused on children aged six months to 14 years, “who have been living in makeshift settlements in the city since the conflict erupted last Friday.”

“In such overcrowded sites, health risks for communities increase considerably,” it added.

“Measles spreads rapidly and one case can very quickly become an outbreak,” said the UNICEF's Representative in South Sudan, Mahimbo Mdoe.

“It's crucial that children living in these crowded conditions are protected from what can be a life-threatening disease,” Mdoe added.

UNICEF is one of the UN agencies working in the displacement sites to reunite children who were separated from their families while running from the fighting. Children are being provided with primary health care and treatment for malnutrition.

Safe water supplies and latrines have also been installed to minimize the spread of disease, while child-friendly spaces have been created so that even in the midst of upheaval children are able to play and learn.

In addition to the support in Wau, teams from UNICEF and partner agencies on Friday reached the remote village of Mboro, to the south, which until recently had been inaccessible due to insecurity. More than two thousand people were given access to health care and 500 children were screened for malnutrition. Those diagnosed as malnourished were provided with therapeutic food supplements.

Residents said they were living in the bush without shelter for fear of further violence. They also said they were surviving on whatever food they could forage.

Given the high insecurity in Wau, UNICEF said it was particularly concerned about the well-being of displaced women and girls in and around the temporary sites. Conflict and population movements traditionally hit women and girls the hardest, as they become exposed to sexual violence and exploitation.

“When conflict and violence hit communities and people are forced to flee, support networks become weaker and the first to feel the impact are the most vulnerable,” said Mdoe. ”UNICEF is working around the clock with partners on the ground to ensure that medical and support services are available and that safe spaces are created so that women and girls can speak freely and seek help if they need it.”

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July 2, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - A member of the government negotiating team on the conflict in the Two Areas Saturday said his team would meet with the chief African mediator Thabo Mbeki following the Eid al-Fitr (the Festival of Fast-Breaking) to discuss the latest developments on the Roadmap Agreement.

Sudan's Presidential aide Ibrahim Moahmoud Hamid and AUHIP chair sign the Roadmap Agreement in Addis Ababa on 21 March 2016 (courtesy photo of AUHIP )

Last March, the African Union High Implementation Panel (AUHIP) proposed a roadmap agreement to the Sudanese government and four opposition groups from the Sudan Call forces.

However, only Khartoum government signed the framework text while the four groups declined the text, saying the Roadmap would reproduce the regime.

The opposition groups handed over a supplemental document to Mbeki and vowed to reconsider their rejection of the Roadmap if he accepts it to ensure that the Roadmap becomes a gateway to an equal, serious and fruitful dialogue.

In his reply to the opposition, the chief mediator said in his quality as facilitator he cannot hold such negotiations with any of the Sudanese parties, pointing that he forwarded the proposal to the Sudanese government and requested its response.

On Wednesday, the Sudanese government told the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Donald Booth, that it sticks to the Roadmap and refuses the supplemental agreement proposed by the opposition.

Member of the government negotiating team on the conflict in the Two Areas Hussein Karshoom revealed that his team will meet with Mbeki after Eid al-Fitr to discuss the latest developments on the Roadmap, saying the government has furnished the mediation with some clarifications on the peace plan.

He told the semi-government Sudan Media Center (SMC) that his team will meet with the Sudan Call if they sign the Roadmap in order to arrange for the cessation of hostilities and agree on the security and humanitarian issues besides completing the framework agreement which they had previously agreed on 90% of its items.

South Kordofan and neighbouring Blue Nile state have been the scene of violent conflict between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) and Sudanese army since 2011.

Last December, negotiations between Khartoum and the SPLM-N stalled after the government delegation insisted that the objective of talks is to settle the conflict in the Two Areas, while the SPLM-N team has called for a holistic approach to resolve ongoing conflicts across Sudan.

Karshoom stressed government readiness to continue the talks if the opposition signs the Roadmap as a general framework that paves the way for holding the national dialogue with the participation of the holdout groups.

The opposition calls to hold a preparatory meeting for the national dialogue; ensuring political and press freedoms, release of political detainees and to set up a transitional government to implement the outcome of the national dialogue.

Karshoom further renewed the government rejection to any supplemental documents to the Roadmap, saying the peace plan has received large support.

The Sudanese government has received widespread international and regional support for the signing of the Roadmap. The UN chief, African Union chairperson, the United Kingdom and the United States have also urged the opposition groups to join the peace plan.

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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman

The twenty-seventh anniversary of the ill-fated coup of the misnomer National Salvation Revolution (NSR), Ingaz for short landed on Thursday 30 June 2016 Gregorian Calendar, 25th of the Holy Month of Ramadan 1437 Hijri Calendar.

Thursday 30, June 2016 marked the 27th Anniversary for the fateful coming through a military Coup d'état of the National Islamic Front (NIF), the International Muslim Brotherhood Movement (MBM) branch in Sudan.

The (NIF), as soon as rested assured on the helm, considered the people of Sudan in the Southern Sudan, region of Darfur and the marginalised territories as its prime enemies and declared Jihad warfare against the citizens. They classified Sudanese people according to the concept of either with us or against us. In their quest for empowerment, (NIF) hard liners adopted a policy of dismissal of government employees allegedly thought potentially disloyal under the pretext of the so-called 'Public Good/Interest'. Thus, hundreds of worker and officials in the Civil Service have been dismissed and replaced by inept unqualified individuals affiliated to the (NIF). The (NIF) Putschists gave the nickname of (Dismissal for Pubic Good) that phenomenologically farcical process.

Furthermore, they portrayed the war against the Southern Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Movement Army (SPLM/A) Rebels as a Jihad employing the regular Sudan Armed Force (SAF) and the militia Popular Defence Forces (PDF) which they portrayed as Mujahideen. The Majority of the (PDF) were conscripts from amongst high school, college and university students. Regular TV programme calling for jihad against the infidels known as (In the backyards of redemption) accompanied. NIF described their dead as martyrs and described the other dead in southern Sudan war as (Matt Fetaiz) , the phrase means that others slain by their army as Rotten Fetid Corpses- according to their own words and phraseology. On the political front, the putschist regime dissolved the parliament, political parties and their representatives, who were members of it and imposed emergency laws all over the Sudan, and seized the banks and they by virtue of a deterrent decreed penalty included lunching for every person who owned hard foreign currencies such as the US dollar, British Pound after the forfeiture and the confiscation of the amount. Moreover, they claimed that they came with what they called as Civilisational Project and Apostolic Orientation for the Islamisation of Sudan and the people of the country. Furthermore, they claimed that they will fight America and Russia which their Torment has approached they have met what hurts them, so to speak! However, hypocrisy is lanyard as the popular saying goes, and very soon the putschists agreed secretly with the US intelligence agency (CIA) to provide intelligence on the movements of Islamic jihadist terrorists that had taken Khartoum as a safe haven refuge.

The putschist entity of (NIF) had committed a heinous crime against their companions in the Sudan Armed Force (SAF), which included non-commissioned officers and officers of more than thirty on the pretext that they were involved in an alleged military coup attempt against them. The Execution of those 28 military officers took place on the Holy Month of Ramadan, which coincided April 23, 1990 in an ugly image representing treachery and betrayal. Thus, began the first step towards dismantling the Sudanese army in favour of the lords of the National Islamic Front (NIF) until the armed forces have become a monopoly; but later replaced by the Janjaweed militias and mercenaries that waged proxy civil wars on behalf of Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir and his entourage against the Sudanese unarmed noncombatant civilian citizens in Darfur where crimes of genocide have been systematically committed, 27 years on to date.

Darfur Forced to Take up to Arms
Moreover, when the people of Darfur who have suffered from systematic marginalisation by the successive governments led by the political elites, the majority of whom were descendants from the Northern Region since the Independence of Sudan in January 1956 from British colonialists rule. The then Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, virtually the leader of the regime, said publicly that he would not negotiate with anyone who did not carry weapons. Bashir's statement forced the young men of the Region to take up to arms on February 2003 in quest for the legitimate rights of citizenship which include wealth sharing and power sharing and removal of systematic marginalisation and chronic deprivation which they and their people suffered and rights have been denied for so long. Moreover, they included those grievances in the Black Book imbalance of power and wealth in Sudan written around the end of the year 1999 by intellectuals from the Darfur region, a group led by Martyr Dr. Khalil Ibrahim Muhammad, Allah forgive him and bless his soul.

The Janjaweed unleashed to run havoc
When army and Janjaweed militias of the regime subjected to defeats at the hands of gallant Darfur armed movements rebel forces in all locations and battle fields, the Khartoum government has decided to take revenge on civilians rather than confronting the rebels. It unleashed the Janjaweed militias to wreak havoc and corruption on earth, burning villages and looting property of citizens and killing women, kids and the elderly. Based on the war crimes perpetrated in the form of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, the international Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant to apprehend the head of the regime Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir. Furthermore, the (ICC) issued arrest warrants of the former defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein and Ahmed Mohamed Haroun, former state minister of interior, and Ali Abdelrahman Kushayb, leader of the Janjaweed militias, all of whom remain fugitives from international justice. Moreover, the NCP regime in order to be capable to carry out further atrocious crimes against the people of Sudan in Darfur, worked relentlessly for getting rid of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). However, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) continued extending the period of the (UNAMID) Force yearly. Accordingly, the UN Security Council and the Peace and Security Council of the African Union have considered extending the Mandate of (UNAMID) for 12 months, until 30 June 2017, without modifying its priorities or adjusting its authorized troop and police ceiling. http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2016/510.

NCP regime waging War on Citizens while swathes of Sudan's land occupied by Foreigners
The (NCP) regime has been waging futile warfare against fellow citizens while swathes of the soil of Sudan remain under the occupation by foreign neighbouring countries. These are the Sudanese territories occupied by the Egyptian army in Halayeb and Shalateen In addition to an area of 600 thousand in Fashaga occupied by Ethiopia. The (NCP) regime behaves, as the popular proverb says, he behaves as a lion on unarmed noncombatant civilian citizens of Sudan in Darfur though just an Ostrich in wars with who attacked and seized a vast swathes of areas of the dear homeland!

Inciting Intertribal Warfare
Furthermore, in the Darfur region, the regime of the NCP sought in addition to the crimes of genocide to fragment the eternal social fabric of the citizens by dividing the region into five states based on the tribal lines. As expected, that led into tribal strife and intertribal warfare. Worse, the regime held a bogus referendum for the revocation of the region so as the word and opinion of the people of Darfur fragmented and divided toward their vital issues. Thus, the NCP regime vehemently opposed to Darfur remaining as one region and opted for dismantling it into warring tribal cantons with fragmentation of the social fabric.

Systematic Government Corruption Widespread
The epidemic of government corruption remained widely spread in the decadence era of the (NIF). They looted the country's oil and gold revenues to foreign banks under the names of relatives of influential people in the regime of the National Congress Party accounts. Furthermore, the putschists as well as sold the major productive state institutions such as the Gezira irrigated agriculture project, Sudan Airways, Sudan Shipping Lines, Sudan railway corporation and privatization of education and health services and so on! Moreover, they sold the famous Sudan House in the Knight Bridge neighborhood in London cheaply to a crony investor of the (NCP) regime as well selling the airstrip of the Sudan Airways (Sudan air) at Heathrow Airport. For the legalization of corruption, the Islamism regime of the (NCP) decided to urge the religious Sheikhs affiliated to it introducing the so-called (Tahalul), meaning biodegradable decomposition and disintegration, which according to their Religious Fatwa removes “Haram” and make it Halal! Still the worse is on the way. The racist supremacist elements in the regime made the unity in Sudan unattractive to the citizens of Southern Sudan through racism by making them take the option of secession and formation of their own nascent state, South Sudan, in 2011. There are plenty of calamities brought about by the ruling regime of the National Congress Party (NCP) to the disenfranchised people of Sudan, but the space does not accommodate the entire reminder.

The genocidal criminal Omar al-Bashir and his Islamism claiming entourage will remain held responsible for the heinous crimes they perpetrated in the rights of the Sudanese people over the 27 lean years of oppressive putschist regime. Thus, autocracy and reign of terror continued for past 27 years despite the fact that the people of Sudan used in the past staunch advocates of fighting for freedom, October 21, 1964 and April 1985 Revolutions as examples.

Unlimited support the genocidal criminal Omar al-Bashir from the African Union
Omar al-Bashir and his regime took proxy civil wars of attrition safe haven to protect him from the International Court of Court's (ICC) grip, which has been pursuing him since 2009. This is in addition to the support he receives from the Dictators Club called the African Union (AU) based in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Most of the members of the forum there are afraid of the spin of the circle upon them and fall under the accountability of the international Tribunal. Majority of the Club Members practiced systemic repression and continued committing atrocities against the people of their countries.

Support from Some members in the International Community
The (NCP) regime receives political support provided by some permanent members of the UN Security Council. That support is in lieu of the intersecting interests in the form of intelligence on terrorism by the Islamic Jihadi groups from Egypt, Libya and other neighboring countries, which take Khartoum as refuge on their belief that the Islamist regime of the National Congress Party would give them protection.

EU –Sudan agreement to Curb Migration exodus to Europe
It is not so exciting or surprising if we look at what the European Union (EU) recently trying to strike a deal with Khartoum. (EU) planned for reaching an agreement with the ruling regime in Sudan for reducing migrants coming from the Horn of Africa countries to Europe through Libya. Germany is to provide an amount of one hundred million euros to Sudan, in addition to the establishment of camps in Eastern Sudan for refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia, and Somalia. Moreover, there is other additional package of facilities for the training of Sudanese police in Germany to carry out the task of reducing immigration to Europe. They ignored and flouted all the crimes committed by the head of the ruling regime of the NCP, Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir against humanity against the people of Sudan in Darfur, and fugitive from international justice and indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Machiavellian doctrine of end justify the means continues in operation.

Edmund Burke the British-Irish Politician, Author, Orator, Political theorist, and Philosopher has been quoted as saying: (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent).
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Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is an author, columnist and a blogger. His blog is http://thussudan.wordpress.com/

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