The bombs began to drop on June 5, 2011. The government of Sudan began what they have openly referred to as their “final solution” for the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan. Four years later, the National Congress Party (NCP) regime continues dropping bombs on the Nuba Mountains.
The NCP’s excuse for waging war against the men, women, and children of their own nation was that most of the Nuba refused to accept the results of the rigged election that had been recently held.
Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) war hero and former Deputy Governor Commander Abdelaziz Adam al Hilu had won the South Kordofan gubernatorial vote, but the Islamist regime in Khartoum pronounced a war criminal, Ahmed Haroun, as the winner. As good an excuse as any to exterminate the people that Sudan President Omar al Bashir refers to as “black insects” and “rubbish.”
And what a prize Ahmed Haroun is! He has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, along with Bashir, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur — another region where the NCP government has committed its racist genocide. Haroun is good at final solutions. He recruited, funded, and armed the Janjaweed militias, the “devils on horseback” who have raped, pillaged, and slaughtered civilian populations in Darfur.
Therefore, bombing the civilian populations was not all that happened on June 5, 2011. What the Janjaweed did to Darfuris, the “Popular Defense Force” (PDF) began in the towns and villages of the Nuba Mountains that day. The PDF, under the command of the current Foreign Minister of Sudan (and National Prayer Breakfast invitee), Ali Karti, was a militia that was used by the Sudan government in the 1990’s in its genocidal jihad against South Sudan and, oh yes, don’t forget: the Nuba Mountains.
The four years of madness that have just transpired are all the more insane because this has happened before. The world community watched as the people groups of the Nuba Mountains were brought almost to the point of complete eradication. In the 1990’s and early 2000’s Khartoum attacked the Nuba with a vengeance because Muslim and Christian Nuba together had joined South Sudan in fighting back against the forced Islamization and Arabization that the Islamist regime wanted to impose.
So it was a recurring nightmare in 2011 when the PDF galloped into Kadugli, the capital of the Nuba Mountains. They did house-to-house searches for ethnic black African Nuba (both Muslim and Christian), members of or sympathizers with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) or other opposition political parties, and particularly for Christians. Untold numbers were killed in Kadugli. Then they moved on to other towns and villages of the Nuba Mountains.
Families that could escape fled for the border into South Sudan. Recent UNHCR reports recorded the movement of about 500 refugees on a daily basis from the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State (another region in which the NCP regime is committing genocide) to South Sudan. Some 85,000 Nuba have sought refuge in Yida Refugee Camp in South Sudan’s Unity State.
Those who did not want to leave, or were unable to, have sought refuge in hill caves. Here they are safe from bombs, but had no food when whatever they could grab when they left ran out. Malnutrition, disease, and starvation are additional weapons of jihad.
In an especially diabolical — but typical for the Islamist Sudan regime — incident, thousands of Nuba were assured that they would be safe in the UN compound in Kadugli. Persecution Project founder and president, Brad Phillips, in his testimony in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, explained what took place.
“More than 5,000 ethnic Nubans who sought refuge in the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) compound were dragged out by NCP security forces and slaughtered at the gate while Egyptian UNMIS forces watched and in some reports actually laughed,” Philips revealed. Images provided by the Satellite Sentinel Project and UN reports reveal that the bodies of thousands of innocent Nuba men, women, and children lie in mass graves around Kadugli.
The Nuba people’s only defense is the SPLA-North, under the command of al Hilu. If it were not for the SPLA-North, the Khartoum regime’s final solution may have been completed by this time because the Nuba would rather die than submit to NCP’s Islamist Arabist ideology. As it is, the SPLA-North is in control of a miraculous 85% of the region, with only ground troops to battle against Khartoum’s army and air force. Since the war began, the SPLA-North has pleaded with the world democracies, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives have echoed the cry, to prevent the regime’s aerial attacks on civilians by either establishing a no-fly zone, destroying the NCP’s aerial assets, or providing the SPLA-North with anti-aircraft weapons to use against bombers.
What of these bombs? It is really not accurate to merely say that the regime “drops bombs” on the Nuba Mountains, as if that is the whole story. Bombs, dropped on markets, schools, churches, and hospitals, are filled with shrapnel sharp enough to slice a body in half. And it has done just that far too many times. Recently, the NCP has been using cluster bombs, an internationally banned weapon. According to the Cluster Munition Coalition, the bombs open up “in mid-air to release tens or hundreds of submunitions, which can saturate an area up to the size of several football fields.” The coalition adds, “many bomblets fail to explode on impact remaining a deadly risk to civilians.”
Nuba Reports, a group of citizen reporters founded by people living in the region after journalists were banned from the Nuba Mountains, has been monitoring every aerial attack since April 2012. Here are some of the most recent attacks upon which they reported last month:
- May 27: Two jets dropped two jets dropped four bombs around Kauda at 7:30. Some of the bombs are cluster bombs. The number is not yet confirmed. At least one is unexploded.
- May 27: Heavy bombing around Kauda, the capital of the Nuba Mountains, this morning. Nuba Reports journalists counted 12 bombs dropped about an hour ago, and more earlier this morning.
- May 25: Peace High School outside Kauda was bombed. A child was killed and her mother was injured. Two bombs also landed on the Diocese of El Obeid teacher training compound in upper Kauda. No casualties or injuries reported.
- May 20: At 12:30pm, an Antonov coming from the north circled Tabanya and Tanasa villages in Buram country dropping a total of 11 bombs. The bombs killed an elderly woman and wounded an elderly man. They also burned down five houses and killed two sheep.
The world community, including the UN, African Union, and the Obama Administration continue to urge “the rebels” and the Sudan government to come to the peace table. More madness. The SPLA-North and the wider freedom fighting movement, the Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF), know full well that the Islamist regime has no intention of abiding by any peace agreement. But these pro-democracy groups have no choice but to submit to the international community’s dog and pony show or be labelled the side that “doesn’t want peace.”
Another element of the madness: The jihadist genocidairres and those who are fighting for freedom and democracy are treated with moral equivalence. “Both sides need to stop fighting,” the relativists intone. The international Nuba community explains that they have been “forced into a full scale war for self-preservation.” Self-preservation.
After four years of this madness can it not yet be declared that one side is right and one side is wrong? In fact, to call the way the two sides are treated “moral equivalence” is actually incorrect. The racist government that deliberately starves its own people, sends shrapnel-filled bombs to slice off limbs and heads, poisons food supplies before giving “aid,” and has as much desire as ISIS to build a worldwide Islamic Caliphate is given preferential treatment.
On May 8, the U.S. State Department released a statement, “U.S. Condemns Violence in Sudan.” In typical fashion the statement expressed grave concern over “actions by the Sudanese government and armed opposition groups” for “exacerbating an already serious human rights crisis.” It went on to “urge the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), all other armed groups, and the Government of Sudan to cease hostilities.” Sudan activist Andrew Eiva said of the statement in disgust, “The State Department should not condemn violence. It should condemn Khartoum for 60 years of racist genocide that is still ongoing.”
Another Sudan activist raged over a photo from the recent Egypt Economic Development Conference. In the group photo, Secretary of State John Kerry stand behind Sudan President Bashir. They were standing “so close that Kerry could have smacked Bashir on top of his head, arrested him, or left the photo op,” declared the activist. But none of that happened.
Is it madness to think that a U.S. Secretary of State should feel such moral outrage? Or is it madness that the leader of a genocidal regime for over two decades, responsible for the death of over five million people in South Sudan, Darfur, Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile State, and elsewhere should be treated as a member of civilized society?
The statement from the State Department declares that “years of fighting have made clear that there is no military solution to the conflicts in Sudan.” That would not be true if the U.S. government would offer to the SPLA-North and other freedom fighters even a fraction of the support that they did to overthrow President Mubarak and install the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or take down Qadafi and back Libyan “rebels” who gave us the tragedy of Benghazi. “A political solution is essential to attaining sustainable peace in Sudan,” the statement continues, but such a solution will never be reached when one side’s concept of “peace” is submission and the peace of the grave, and yet the world powers continue to pretend it is otherwise.
Any real solution does not seem clear. But what does seem clear is to do what is right: stand with the Nuba, in the fourth year of the genocide of their people. And keep pointing out the obvious until it cannot be ignored or denied any more.
What can you do right now?
- Pray for God’s intervention in the situation. During the North/South war in Sudan, there were occurrences that seemed straight out of the Old Testament with Gideon’s little army, or Joshua and the battle of Jericho, or David and Goliath, or even Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego versus Nebuchadnezzar. Pray for a miracle.
- Join us on Saturday, from noon to 3PM at the WHITE HOUSE RALLY AGAINST GENOCIDE. Nuba from all over the United States are coming to Washington, DC to protest the war against the Nuba Mountains.
- Do what you can to ensure that every Presidential candidate must make an answer about what they will do to stop the radical Islamist regime in Khartoum. And not just a pretty speech — a PLAN. How will they protect the civilians of the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile State, Darfur, and all of Sudan’s marginalized and oppressed people? Do they see the value of providing support to those who want to see a free, peaceful Sudan with a secular democratic government, that treats citizens of every ethnicity and every religion as equal?
- Watch this space for news of a petition you can sign to stand in solidarity with the people of the Nuba Mountains.
(Government of Sudan, Sudan government, Khartoum regime, NCP government, NCP regime — are used interchangeably. They all refer to the same people…the Islamist Caliphate building jihadists who used to call themselves the National Islamic Front.)
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