There is no alternative to the overthrow of the NCP regime
By Mahmoud A. Suleiman
The above ‘heading/ title’ comes against the backdrop of the isolated voices from some quarters of political ‘opposition’ that have been calling for a political settlement with Omer al-Bashir in order to dismantle the current National Congress Party (NCP) regime and establish a democratic alternative. One considers such political vision is departure from the consensus, even amounting to complicity with the unjust criminal (NCP) regime and position against the interests of the Sudanese people. This attitude is a proof that this politician has no feelings whatsoever for the callous murders and arbitrary arrests and torturers afflicting the peaceful Sudanese protesters at the hands of the regime’s security elements and the militias. Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi continued his speech in the face of the interruption by the hundreds of attendees chanting ( clear position O Imam)! Moreover, the news media reported that al-Mahdi demanded his supporters to repeat after him: “The people want a new system,” while the vast majority chanted: “The people want to overthrow the regime”! Moreover, al- Sadiq al-Mahdi has not come forward to condemn the killings of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators, arbitrary detentions and the torture suffered by the Sudanese people at the hands of the security apparatus. Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi needs to realise that the Sudanese popular uprising has passed the stage of truce with the odious totalitarian Islamism regime of the National Criminal Party. In other words, there would be no room for budging. All the political opposition groups have renewed their full support for the peaceful protests at a time when the regime continues its a brutal crackdown and militarization using live ammunition with the policy of ‘shoot to kill’ that aims the nozzle of the machineguns at the bare chests and elevated heads of the courageous unarmed protesters. This has resulted to a death toll that stands, as of 1st October 2013, at 250, most of whom were teenage boys and young men and women. This is in addition to around four hundred injured and more than one thousand arrested. The Interior Ministry announced that the total number of detainees amounted to about 700 people who will be interrogated to bring them to trial, while the Sudanese for rights and freedoms reported that the number exceeded a thousand detainees, including 60 leading partisan. The National Intelligence and security forces (NISS) control public hospitals and deny access to healthcare for the injured. Medical doctors are prevented from treating the wounded or documenting their injuries. Moreover, the security threatened medical personnel and ordered them under duress to falsify medical reports and death certificates. The regime’s security denied the relatives the release of the bodies of their loved ones for burial. The shooting at the protesters in most cases from a distance very close to the victims to be more lethal. One of the most abhorrent matters that raising more anger a statement attributed to the regime’s Minister of the Interior, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, who said that the images of the dead shown in the media were of Egyptians. He went on undeterred, to say through his foul mouth they maybe ‘staring’ at the pictures again. Whereas the Amnesty International said that Sudanese security forces have killed more than 200 protesters since the beginning of the demonstrations ten days before in protest at raising the prices of fuel and other essential items. But the Council of Ministers headed by Omar al-Bashir , who discussed at its regular meeting on Thursday, October 3, 2013 report from the Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud , he said 34 people were killed from citizens during the events , while the police lost one of its members . He added,” What happened is not a protest against the economic organization, but for the purpose of sabotage and looting.”
Unfortunately, such blurry positions of Sadiq al-Mahdi was one of the factors that contributed to the continuation of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Sudan under its various names (NIF/NCP/PNPLIM) for a quarter of a century in spite of the failure that accompanied it since the first sight of their ill-fated coming to assume authoritarian authority. The NCP regime is a byproduct of the failures that haunted the successive regimes under the political elites who ruled Sudan since the departure of the British colonialism on the January the 1st 1956, handing over power to them. Those who came after the first generation failed to learn the lessons of the political legacy and failures of their predecessors. There seems to be immunity against taking the painful lessons from the past political era.
The role of the worn-out political party leaders who chase behind the power and wealth in Sudan to get them by the most direct and short route and cheapest costs have expired. Accordingly, their loyal supporters need move beyond them to build a new Sudan, which accommodates everyone based on citizenship without discrimination. The old adage says, “That who sows thorns do not reap grapes and the one who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind”. It would have been useful if Sadiq al – Mahdi kept silent and left the Sudanese people for their own devices to overthrow the hated dilapidated (NCP) regime.
The State of the National criminals Party (NCP) led by Omar al-Bashir will inevitably go away under the feet of the Sudanese people’s shoes. The capable political opposition alliance of National Consensus Forces (NCF), the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) and the millions of Sudanese people poised to get rid of the disastrous rule of the hypocrites led by Omar al – Bashir and his gang. Tomorrow the sun of the New Dawn shines. All-powerful Forces would move towards Khartoum to oust the NCP regime once for all. And Revolution and Revolution, revolution until victory.
The Sudanese people urge the international community to denounce the (NCP) regime’s brutal targeting of innocent civilian population of Sudanese who protest peacefully in response to the government’s lifting of fuel subsidies and raising the prices of commodity basic to the poverty-stricken. The people of Sudan deserve to live and have the right for dignified, secure and peaceful lives in their own country. Moreover, the world is better off without a genocidal fugitive from the international justice, Omer Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir and his clique of assassins.
The people of Sudan are longing for a democratic rule and would like to oust the NCP regime to give them the chance to choose their representatives through the ballot box.
The time has come close for the Peaceful Revolution forces fit together with the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) forces to finish off the totalitarian regime of the dictator Omer al-Bashir in the face of continuing use of excessive force to kill the civilians.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Suleiman is the Deputy Chairman of the General Congress for Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). He can be reached at [email protected]