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Stop Massacring Sudanese Peaceful Protesters
T H.
started this petition to
United Nations; Council of Europe; European Union; African Union; IGAD
Abstract
This petition forcibly urges the International
Community at large to act swiftly and firmly for the international protection
of the entirety of the Sudanese citizens’ adamantly peaceful protest movement against
the de facto ruling Sudanese Transitional Military Council’s and particularly its Rapid Support Forces’
militia’s use of categorically brutal force in an offensive onslaught on the
resolute Sudanese civil and peaceful sit-in at the Sudanese Armed Forces’
headquarters in Khartoum that has been, and is, at the core of the ever
indefatigable Sudanese civil and political movement for a true and accountable
civil governance of Sudan. More than 35
persons have thereby been callously assassinated, with live ammunition, while
injuring hundreds more, some with seriously critical injuries. Furthermore, the petition in question demands
a commanding international community’s intervention and pressure on the
Sudanese ruling Transitional Military Council, with the entireness of its
affiliated militias and security forces, instantly to comply with the Sudanese
peoples’ demands of a genuinely civil and democratic political and social transformation
that ultimately assures the reign of freedom and peace and equality in their
beloved country.
The Body of The Petition
We are hereby drawing the International Community’s
urgent attention to the Sudanese ruling
Transitional Military Council’s (TMC) and particularly the Sudanese Rapid
Support Forces’ (RSF) premeditatedly malicious onslaught on the Sudanese civil and peaceful sit-in
at the Sudanese Armed Forces’ headquarters in Khartoum which is at the centre
of the indefatigable Sudanese civil and political movement for a true and
accountable civil governance of Sudan. More than 35 persons have thereby been
callously assassinated, with live ammunition, while injuring hundreds more,
some with seriously critical injuries.
It is of our
qualified conviction that you have insensitively contributed, with your
apathetic and misguided policies and stands, as an International Community, to
our country’s present dare conditions of poverty and want and categorical
deterioration in the indispensable services of education and health and other
basic infra structures projects and vital amenities. Such an apathetic attitude of yours has in
fact steamrolled the way for many successive ruling regimes, military and
otherwise, in Sudan for wreckfully undermining the prosperity and well-being of
generations of a many honorable Sudanese citizen.
You might have not, as an International Community,
realized, amid your self-righteous ways and attitudes, the extent to which
oppressive need can damagingly affect a human soul. But a brief view of the real conditions of the
majority of the peoples and communities of the world of today, if you only care
to look around, is certain to reveal to you by which overwhelming dimension of
sheer destruction and war and unlawful killing and prosecution such peoples and
communities have, and yet, for decades a many, been engulfed.
And to come to Sudan, we should hereby note that
all the past and present interventions and policies you have hitherto applied
unto it have hardly accomplished anything but encouraging wrecking misery and havoc
unto the comm folks of the country. One
of the near-to-hand examples of this is the International Community’s response
to the National Congress Party’s regime of the ousted despot of Sudan Omer
Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir with enforcing sanctions on the whole country the brunt
of which has indeed added up woe unto wretchedness to the already ongoing
generational misery of the Sudanese peoples. The sensible response and policy in this
respect would otherwise simply to punish the rulers, not the people, for the
sins of their rulers should certainly not be visited upon the peoples they
rule. But the International Community
has mockingly and cynically chosen to visit the punishing consequences of such
sanctions upon the victim, but not the executioner, something which consequentially
made the Sudanese peoples suffering, and yet to suffer till this day and
beyond, of the lethally bitter harvest of the despotic totalitarian rule of the
Sudanese National Conference’s party under the rule of Omer al-Bashir and
his-yet-to-rule partners and associates.
Another
contemptuously misguided policy of the International Community towards Sudan
and its affairs is that of not at all seriously and practically considering the
actual apprehension of the criminal despot Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir who has
been indicted and issued arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC)
for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in Darfur, Sudan, since
the year 2009. Neither the apprehension
of others of al-Bashir associates in war crimes and crimes against humanity has
diligently been pursued by any state parties to the Rome
Statute of the ICC. Evidently all
such states have grievously failed to fulfill their international duty of
apprehending him, even upon visiting, or passing over the territories, of some
of the states who are signatories to the statute in question. And that is indeed something which is
politically and ethically questionable.
Such an obnoxious
attitude of the International Community is certainly not only morally questionable,
but it is also unconscientious and reeking of downright political and ethical
duplicity.
Such ethical duplicity
has, in the case of Sudan, been manifestly shown in the duplicity with which significant
part of such powers has dealt with Sudan’s RSF under the leadership of the now Vice-President
of the de facto ruling TMC, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. Such duplicity is plainly demonstrated in the
European Union’s making, through the intermediacy of those criminal forces, of
Sudan a nerve hub for countering human trafficking, notwithstanding such a
position’s very high moral cost. For it
precisely means implicitly involving, on the part of the EU, with the
ill-reputed re-accommodation of a Sudanese security forces whose principal chief,
and other leaders, the United Nations has directly accused of perpetrating war
crimes in Darfur.
We forcefully
call upon you, as representatives of the International Community, to excise the
utmost world-wide pressure so that the de facto ruling TMC and the RSF should
be legally and fully accountable for their criminal offenses against the
Sudanese peaceful campaigners. Thus, we
hereby strongly demand from you immediately to take up the following actions as
required:
1. Exercising the extremist
pressure on the TMC and its security forces, particularly the RSF, for an
instant stop of all human rights violations against all Sudanese citizens, on
top of which firing live ammunition against the peaceful demonstrators and all
forms of atrocities against them.
2.
Seriously pressurizing the TMC for instituting
public freedoms such as the freedoms of thought, belief, expression and public
assembly. Paramount to this is the immediate lifting of the ban on the usage of
the internet.
3.
Instantly ceasing any forms of political or
otherwise cooperation and transactions with the de facto,
but constitutionally illegitimate, ruling TMC in Sudan.
4.
Persisting
in such a stand until the
Sudanese
Forces
for
the Declaration of
Freedom and Change
announces the institution
of its alternative Transitional Government, at all of its three executive
levels. Then you should immediately acknowledge such government as the sole transitional
ruler of Sudan and representative of all its peoples.
5. Compellingly pressing
towards persecuting Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his associates at the ICC
for all of their crimes of war and crimes against humanity in Darfor and their currently
committed violations and atrocities against the peaceful protesters. We hereby demand his, and his associates,
prompt apprehension once he is out of Sudan and in any of the state parties to
the Rome Statute of the ICC. And in case
of not complying with such statute the head of the state in question should be
rendered legally accountable for his actions at the ICC for his complicity in
assisting war criminals.
Finally, we
should hereby note that the dare consequences of such a habitual falsehood and duplicity and insubstantial
stands of yours in dealing with the fatally serious issues of the troubled
nations of this world shall finally be visited upon you. For the next generations of all nations will
never forget, and perhaps never condone, such a moral duplicity of yours, both
in thoughts and deeds.
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