Cha’mon Lets Auto-tune This Mess into OUR Dream, Why Don’t We Mr. Obama
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Here’s Wising everybody a Goooood Monday Mo’ning,
Today’s Lil Essay is specifically directed to US President – Mr. Barack Obama – Yessirr, it’s Messed Up Monday -
it’s about time we started really looking at history through modern eyes Sir, Cha’mon Now, – (that’s mijac speak for Co’mon)
(This is our Music Monday Link).
We do not think that this diminishes the quality and intensity of the speech. Contrary to that, it just updates it with the times. the message is clear, we need to finally accept the reality that we now have and do something to make our lives, Finally “The Dream” that Dr. King and so many others envisioned, Cha’mon Now You Know You Wanna Do It..
What is wrong in Sudan when they Sentence these few and let the real murderer who resides in the office of the president, walk free;
Cha’mon now Mr Obama ?
Click to listen to Our First Darfur Podcast detailing this whole mess – from 2004
2009 January – Sudanese Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi is arrested after saying President Bashir should hand himself in to The Hague to face war crimes charges for the Darfur war.
2009 March – The International Criminal Court in The Hague issues an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
Mr Obama, you acknowledge that The International Court in the Hague has no teeth since it doesn’t execute it’s own arrest warrants, and therefore is of little consequence to anyone, especially murders like Bush, Cheney, and Bashir. You’ve said you plan to deal with the torture in Iraq. we’re waiting..
Cha’mon Mr Obama, show us what YOU Workin Wit..
Mr. Obama we elected you on the promise to Fix This Mess.. well this is on the list, and we’ve heard nothing from you on this extremely important and crucial issue. There are Too Many Lives Being Taken in Darfur for you to ignore it.. so stop this waste of time talking about Afghanistan; and go fix this broken wagon wheel – if you really think you’ve got the power to make a change… CHA’MON NOW !
Show Us What You’re Working WITH, Why Dontcha Mr Obama.. CHA‘MON
This is what they are using for distraction from the real story which is below this one..
Do Not Be Distracted by Lies and Games Mr. Obama – we have seen them before,
The unprecedented rebel attack on Khartoum left more than 200 dead
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A Sudanese court has sentenced 11 Darfur rebels to death for an attack on Khartoum in 2008.
The members of the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) were found guilty of involvement in the unprecedented assault on the Sudanese capital.
Some 80 Jem members have already been sentenced to death for the attack, which left more than 200 people dead.
The Jem fighters drove across the desert to reach Khartoum and were only stopped near the presidential palace.
On Sunday, Judge Hafez Ahmed at the court in Khartoum found the 11 rebels guilty of terrorism and illegal possession of weapons, the AFP news agency reported.
“For their actions in terrorising the people, and threatening the foundation of the state… aggressive sentences are required,” the judge told the courtroom.
Eight other men were acquitted.
The attack in May 2008 was the closest the rebels have ever been to Khartoum.
Local residents said the fighting lasted several hours.
Jem is currently the most significant fighting rebel force in Darfur.
In February, Jem signed a “declaration of intent” for a peaceful settlement of the war during talks with Sudan’s government in Doha, Qatar.
But Jem is now refusing to return to the peace talks, accusing Khartoum of not honouring confidence-building accords.
This is the most important issue that should be addressed in terms of any resolution of the Darfur Genocide – The Removal and Trial of Omar Bashir.
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By Mike Thomson
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About 300,000 people have died and 2.7m people have been displaced
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In late 2007 I was in a large and overcrowded camp for displaced people just outside the western Darfur town of El Fasher.
A young mother, her face wet with tears, told me the story of how she came to be there.
“It was six in the morning when we heard the sounds of airplanes, horses and camels,” she said.
“Then came gunfire. We were very frightened and stayed in our homes. After a while some men with guns arrived in the village and told us it was safe to come out. There were nine people in our house, including my son and my brother.
“The gumen told them to lie down. Then they shot them all. The men took everything. They even took my clothes and left me naked.”
Khadiga Osman says Sudanese government soldiers helped the Janjaweed Arab militia carry out the massacre. “I saw their uniforms clearly,” she told me.
Many others in Darfur said the same.
But given the Sudanese government’s repeated denials that their soldiers backed or helped the Janjaweed carry out atrocities, the allegations have long been hard to prove.
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  They said they are the ones who help the rebels and you have to kill everybody. Don’t leave anybody, just kill everybody  Khalid
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Yet now a former Sudanese soldier has claimed that his regiment, based near the town of El Fasher, joined Janjaweed fighters in seven attacks on villages from late 2002.
Khalid, which is not his real name, says he was forcibly recruited and then left in no doubt what officers wanted him and his fellow black conscripts to do.
“The orders given to us are to burn the villages completely. We don’t have to leave anything, even the water pots we have to destroy. We even have to poison the water wells.
“We were also given an order to kill all the women and rape the girls under 13 and 14 downwards.”
He confirmed he was ordered to rape and kill adults and children.
Khalid admits to taking part in burning peoples’ homes but insisted that he had no choice because he had seen two other conscripts of black African origin shot dead after refusing to do what they were told.
Simulated rape
But he says he always tried to shoot over people’s heads and merely simulated the rape of a young women that he was ordered to violate.
I asked Khalid what orders he was given about what to do with unarmed civilians who offered no resistance.
“They said they are the ones who help the rebels and you have to kill everybody. Don’t leave anybody, just kill everybody.”
Khalid said he was also told to shoot children that had been left behind by their parents.
Mike Thomson has reported for years on Sudan’s conflict
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He estimates that the number of civilian killings he witnessed by Janjaweed and government troops runs into more than 1,000.
Finally, after a year’s service, he deserted from the army and later managed to get out of the country.
Fearful that members of the International Criminal Court might come knocking on his door with an arrest warrant, Khalid asked me not to reveal his name or the place where he now lives.
But he insists that the blame for all that happened lies not with him, but with the President of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir.
“Omar Bashir is in the chair. All information comes from him. The responsibility is down to him. He is the first person that is responsible for the genocide, of the killing of the children, of everything.
“If you are head of the country then any crimes then you are responsible for any crimes done by your soldiers. It is al-Bashir doing all these things.”
‘We were ordered to kill all the women’
Should judges from the International Criminal Court come to the same decision, which it is widely expected that they will, a warrant will be issued for the arrest of the Sudanese President.
He is currently accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
However, responsibility for the execution of a warrant for some, or all of these charges, will be left to the Sudanese authorities.
So far they have refused repeatedly to hand over two other Sudanese officials also wanted by the ICC.
As a result nobody should expect to see Mr al-Bashir standing trial in the Hague any time soon.
So Forget about Afghanistan Mr Obama - Lets Go to Sudan and Stop This Genocide, Finally. You promised to look at the suffering equally and to do the thing the people want. we want you to do something about DARFUR – NOW.
In Sudan this week (03/09), as the International Criminal Court issued a warrant from the arrest of President Bashir, the BBC’s Owen Bennett-Jones found echoes of a 100-year-old conflict.
The sect’s leader or sheikh, a frail, blind man was sitting on his bed with his thin legs crossed.
The Mahdi who led a 19th century rebellion is still revered in Sudan
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He asked me why I had come. Well, I had heard that his followers met two evenings a week to sing, dance and pray, I said. I was wondering if I could attend a ceremony.
As he contemplated whether or not I could be a problem, he put me straight on one point. “It’s not dancing,” he said. “That would be against Sharia – it’s a moving of the limbs.” Then, “Come back at nine.”
Religious fervour
The men met in a poor suburb of Khartoum in a roughly built brick courtyard with no roof.
Standing in a circle they started to sing the names of Allah. The half moon shone down, offering a gloomy light.
The houses in the area, with doors and windows open to relieve the heat, were packed tightly together.
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As I looked into the men’s faces I thought this here, right now in the late evening, in a small courtyard on the outskirts of Khartoum is why being a foreign correspondent is such a privilege |
As the devotional chants floated through the homes, the prayer leader, resplendent in a gold-edged black robe and with a high white turban, made small hand movements to four drummers instructing them to quicken and slow the pace.
For an hour, the surging rhythms allowed pauses for breath and contemplation, but over time became faster and faster as the men, with some young boys squeezed in between, began to roll their heads from side to side.
And with ever more violent jerks – all the while chanting – they worked themselves into a state of near ecstasy.
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Their faces filled with the joyous smiles of religious fervour and then some started dancing – or perhaps I should say moving their limbs – in the middle of the circle.
One tall man with a long white tunic and greying hair, his whole body shaking, moved around the circle of worshippers touching each one, while besides him a five-year-old boy mimicked his every move.
It was about as different to a Church of England service as you could ever imagine.
And as I looked into the men’s faces I thought this here, right now in the late evening, in a small courtyard on the outskirts of Khartoum, is why being a foreign correspondent is such a privilege.
‘Martyred Christian’
I had gone to Sudan to make a history programme. I wanted to learn more about the man who fought the British in the 1880s – a boat builder’s son who declared that having received instructions from the Prophet Mohammed he was the Mahdi, or guided one.
He rapidly became the undisputed leader of, depending how you look at it, a religious revival intended to purify Islam or an anti-colonial struggle to expel foreign rulers.
Famously, it all culminated when thousands of the Mahdi’s followers – the Mahdi army, to coin an Iraqi phrase – surged up to the governor’s palace in central Khartoum and beheaded the senior British officer there, General Gordon.
Winston Churchill was critical of the effects Islam had on its believers
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It was a humiliating British defeat and the London press was quick to depict Gordon as a Christian knight martyred by Muslim savages.
Gordon’s death was eventually avenged when General Kitchener arrived in Khartoum with some gunboats and an overwhelming force and crushed the Mahdi’s followers.
There is a vivid account of that campaign because a young man who was there wrote a book about it all, it is called The River War and the author was Winston Churchill.
Churchill had some fairly strong views on Islam.
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. And were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall.”
That was Churchill. This is George Bush: “There are extreme elements that use religion to achieve objectives. And they want us to leave. And they want to topple government. They want to extend an ideological caliphate that has no concept of liberty inherent in their beliefs.”
Enraged crowds
Try this. Next time you see an article about the war on terror in the Western press replace the words “Muslim radical” or “Muslim extremist” with “Mohammedan fanatic” or “savage dervish” and you rather rapidly find yourself back in the 19th Century.
President Bashir said Sudan would not “kneel” to colonialists
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My short stay in Khartoum working on the history programme was soon derailed.
Sudan became the world lead story when the International Criminal Court issued the country’s president with an arrest warrant for war crimes.
His response was defiant – “a new colonialism,” he called it – and, in the streets, as enraged crowds gathered at the site where Gordon had been beheaded, old sensitivities rose to the surface.
Once again, they complained, the West was seeing the Sudanese people as uncivilised savages. The Mahdi took on Gordon. President Bashir is taking on the ICC.
I wonder what General Gordon or Churchill would have thought if, 130 years ago, they had seen that Sufi sect singing and dancing.
Well, we have a pretty good idea about that. One of the phrases Churchill used was “a degraded sensualism, depriving life of its grace and refinement.”
And in his diaries Gordon, a very devout Christian, had no doubt that the Mahdi and his men were overexcited natives hell-bent on destroying the civilised world.
Today the language has changed but, for many, on both sides – the basic ideas are much the same.
A chronology of key events:
1881 - Revolt against the Turco-Egyptian administration.
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 Khartoum: Capital is part of a major metropolitan area
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1899-1955 Sudan is under joint British-Egyptian rule.
1956 - Sudan becomes independent.
1958 - General Abbud leads military coup against the civilian government elected earlier in the year
1962 - Civil war begins in the south, led by the Anya Nya movement.
1964 - The “October Revolution” overthrows Abbud and a national government is established
1969 - Jafar Numayri leads the “May Revolution” military coup.
1971 - Sudanese Communist Party leaders executed after short-lived coup against Numayri
1972 - Under the Addis Ababa peace agreement between the government and the Anya Nya the south becomes a self-governing region.
1978 - Oil discovered in Bentiu in southern Sudan.
1983 - Civil war breaks out again in the south involving government forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), led by John Garang.
Islamic law imposed
1983 - President Numayri declares the introduction of Sharia (Islamic law).
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 Civil war pitted Muslim north against Christian, animist south
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1985 - After widespread popular unrest Numayri is deposed by a group of officers and a Transitional Military Council is set up to rule the country.
1986 - Coalition government formed after general elections, with Sadiq al-Mahdi as prime minister.
1988 - Coalition partner the Democratic Unionist Party drafts cease-fire agreement with the SPLM, but it is not implemented.
1989 - National Salvation Revolution takes over in military coup.
1993 - Revolution Command Council dissolved after Omar al-Bashir is appointed president.
US strike
1995 - Egyptian President Mubarak accuses Sudan of being involved in attempt to assassinate him in Addis Ababa.
1998 - US launches missile attack on a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, alleging that it was making materials for chemical weapons.
1998 - New constitution endorsed by over 96% of voters in referendum.
1999 - President Bashir dissolves the National Assembly and declares a state of emergency following a power struggle with parliamentary speaker, Hassan al-Turabi.
Advent of oil
1999 - Sudan begins to export oil.
2000 President Bashir meets leaders of opposition National Democratic Alliance for first time in Eritrea.
Main opposition parties boycott presidential elections. Incumbent Bashir is re-elected for further five years.
A US missile targeted a Khartoum pharmaceutical plant in 1998
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2001 Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi’s party, the Popular National Congress, signs memorandum of understanding with the southern rebel SPLM’s armed wing, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). Al-Turabi is arrested the next day, with more arrests of PNC members in the following months.
Government accepts Libyan/Egyptian initiative to end the civil war after failure of peace talks between President Bashir and SPLM leader John Garang in Nairobi.
US extends unilateral sanctions against Sudan for another year, citing its record on terrorism and rights violations.
Peace deal
2002 – Government and SPLA sign landmark ceasefire agreement providing for six-month renewable ceasefire in central Nuba Mountains – a key rebel stronghold.
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 Eight-year peace process ended with deal to end conflict in south
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Talks in Kenya lead to a breakthrough agreement between the government and southern rebels on ending the 19-year civil war. The Machakos Protocol provides for the south to seek self-determination after six years.
2003 February – Rebels in western region of Darfur rise up against government, claiming the region is being neglected by Khartoum.
2003 October – PNC leader Turabi released after nearly three years in detention and ban on his party is lifted.
Uprising in west
2004 January – Army moves to quell rebel uprising in western region of Darfur; hundreds of thousands of refugees flee to neighbouring Chad.
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 Darfur: Conflict has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions
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2004 March – UN official says pro-government Arab “Janjaweed” militias are carrying out systematic killings of African villagers in Darfur.
Army officers and opposition politicians, including Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, are detained over an alleged coup plot.
2004 May – Government and southern rebels agree on power-sharing protocols as part of a peace deal to end their long-running conflict. The deal follows earlier breakthroughs on the division of oil and non-oil wealth.
2004 September – UN says Sudan has not met targets for disarming pro-government Darfur militias and must accept outside help to protect civilians. US Secretary of State Colin Powell describes Darfur killings as genocide.
Peace agreement
2005 January – Government and southern rebels sign a peace deal. The agreement includes a permanent ceasefire and accords on wealth and power sharing.
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 Ex-rebel John Garang’s time in government was cut short
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UN report accuses the government and militias of systematic abuses in Darfur, but stops short of calling the violence genocide.
2005 March – UN Security Council authorises sanctions against those who violate ceasefire in Darfur. Council also votes to refer those accused of war crimes in Darfur to International Criminal Court.
2005 June – Government and exiled opposition grouping – National Democratic Alliance (NDA) – sign reconciliation deal allowing NDA into power-sharing administration.
President Bashir frees Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, detained since March 2004 over alleged coup plot.
Southern autonomy
2005 9 July – Former southern rebel leader John Garang is sworn in as first vice president. A constitution which gives a large degree of autonomy to the south is signed.
2005 1 August – Vice president and former rebel leader John Garang is killed in a plane crash. He is succeeded by Salva Kiir. Garang’s death sparks deadly clashes in the capital between southern Sudanese and northern Arabs.
2005 September – Power-sharing government is formed in Khartoum.
2005 October – Autonomous government is formed in the south, in line with January 2005 peace deal. The administration is dominated by former rebels.
Darfur conflict
2006 May – Khartoum government and the main rebel faction in Darfur, the Sudan Liberation Movement, sign a peace accord. Two smaller rebel groups reject the deal. Fighting continues.
2006 August – Sudan rejects a UN resolution calling for a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur, saying it would compromise sovereignty.
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 African Union has struggled to contain Darfur violence
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2006 October – Jan Pronk, the UN’s top official in Sudan, is expelled.
2006 November – African Union extends mandate of its peacekeeping force in Darfur for six months.
Hundreds are thought to have died in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year. Fighting is centred on the southern town of Malakal.
2007 April – Sudan says it will accept a partial UN troop deployment to reinforce African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, but not a full 20,000-strong force.
War crimes charges
2007 May – International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for a minister and a janjaweed militia leader suspected of Darfur war crimes.
US President George W Bush announces fresh sanctions against Sudan.
2007 July – UN Security Council approves a resolution authorising a 26,000-strong force for Darfur. Sudan says it will co-operate with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid).
2007 October – SPLM temporarily suspends participation in national unity government, accusing Khartoum of failing to honour the 2005 peace deal.
2007 December – SPLM resumes participation in national unity government.
2008 January – UN takes over Darfur peace force.
Within days Sudan apologises after its troops fire on a convoy of Unamid, the UN-African Union hybrid mission.
Government planes bomb rebel positions in West Darfur, turning some areas into no-go zones for aid workers.
2008 February – Commander of the UN-African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, Balla Keita, says more troops needed urgently in west Darfur.
Abyei clashes
2008 March – Russia says it’s prepared to provide some of the helicopters urgently needed by UN-African Union peacekeepers.
Tensions rise over clashes between an Arab militia and SPLM in Abyei area on north-south divide – a key sticking point in 2005 peace accord.
Presidents of Sudan and Chad sign accord aimed at halting five years of hostilities between their countries.
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CONTROVERSIAL CENSUS
 The 2008 count could have an big impact on Sudan’s political future
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2008 April – Counting begins in national census which is seen as a vital step towards holding democratic elections after the landmark 2005 north-south peace deal.
UN humanitarian chief John Holmes says 300,000 people may have died in the five-year Darfur conflict.
2008 May – Southern defence minister Dominic Dim Deng is killed in a plane crash in the south.
Tension increases between Sudan and Chad after Darfur rebel group mounts raid on Omdurman, Khartoum’s twin city across the Nile. Sudan accuses Chad of involvement and breaks off diplomatic relations.
Intense fighting breaks out between northern and southern forces in disputed oil-rich town of Abyei.
2008 June – President Bashir and southern leader Salva Kiir agree to seek international arbitration to resolve dispute over Abyei.
Bashir accused
2008 July – The International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor calls for the arrest of President Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur; the appeal is the first ever request to the ICC for the arrest of a sitting head of state. Sudan rejects the indictment.
2008 September – Darfur rebels accuse government forces backed by militias of launching air and ground attacks on two towns in the region.
2008 October – Allegations that Ukrainian tanks hijacked off the coast of Somalia were bound for southern Sudan spark fears of an arms race between the North and former rebels in the South.
2008 November – President Bashir announces an immediate ceasefire in Darfur, but the region’s two main rebel groups reject the move, saying they will fight on until the government agrees to share power and wealth in the region.
2008 December – The Sudanese army says it has sent more troops to the sensitive oil-rich South Kordofan state, claiming that a Darfur rebel group plans to attack the area.
2009 January – Sudanese Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi is arrested after saying President Bashir should hand himself in to The Hague to face war crimes charges for the Darfur war.
2009 March – The International Criminal Court in The Hague issues an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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