Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Sudan: No way to back home


In Sudan the war didn't stop since 1955. Millions of Sudanese live as refugees in camps, thousands of solders want go home in peace but they can not. All ASudanese involved in a racist war with no hope.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dear Talal,
I don't want to appear petty-minded, but:
I only learnt recently that according to state-of-the-art historiography the war did not start in 1955 but in 1963. Check out Douglas Johnson's recent piece:
http://riftvalley.net/resources/file/Johnson%20%282012%29,%20New%20History%20for%20a%20New%20Nation.pdf
The mutiny of Torit was a bloody pretext, yet combat was escalated by Abboud's henchmen thanks to arms supplies from West Germany 8 years later.
In the first few months after Abboud's downfall through the popular uprising - surely the most glorious moment in Sudanese history, nearly half a century ahead of the Arab spring - things looked pretty promising.
Moreover, please do not forget the 11 years of - admittedly fragile - peace after the Addis Ababa Agreement. It was one of the greatest achievements not only in Sudanese, but African history, until Nimeri, Sadiq & Turabi on the one side and Alier & Lagu on the ohter messed it up.
I am just being picky about this in order to show that there is still some hope indeed!
Germany's greatest Sudan expert once concluded a study paper by highlighting: "Things in Sudan are so frustrating that there is a great risk of oneself giving up and even becoming cynical. And that this in turn contributes to a self-fulfilling prophecy."
History is not bound by any law to repeat itself.
Please contribute by posting more of your illustrations, which I like so much!
Best wishes,
Ambrose Chapel