I’m a Foreigner in my own country
Author: Bushara Ahmed Gumaa
President of Darfur´s Friends Association (DFA)
May 18, 2005
I’ve never vote in my life:
When I was a child I heard my father talking about freedom,
the parliament, the government of the elected president…But when I was eighteen there was a military regime,
it violated the constitution and killed our illusion.Many people went into exile,
and some took arms against the regime
so as to recover our democracy.
Then the blood flew with the White Nile and the blue.Students stood up protesting, demanding freedom,
we threw the police with stones and it bombarded us
with teargases and after hit us with sticks and shot us with bullets.The dictator Nimeri converted the parliament in a theatre
to represent his pantomimes:
The public was selected and ordered to sing “yes Nimeri,
yes Nimeri…” and to applaud.
Sudan was renamed to “The Democratic Republic of The Sudan”
and the parliament was renamed to “People’s Congress”,
but we suffered from the absence of democracy.Later, the dictator changed his mind,
broke with the communists and became an Islamic fundamentalist.
But it was too late;
the people have realized that the actor was a fake and a hypocrite,
so they’ve stood up against his regime and sent him into exile.After this tragedy the Parliament has recovered the comedy.
But soon some killers entered into the hall and hanged the democracy:
The legitimate president has been jailed,
the Parliament returned back as a theatre
and they’ve aborted the constitution embryo.The new despot was the reincarnation of the former dictator:
He converted the eternal civil war into religious
and declared the Jihad against the south.The war was the worst atrocity in the world:
More than 2.000.000 people have been killed,
more than 4.000.000 displaced,
more than 3.000.000 immigrated,
more than 1.000.000 disabled,
more than 1.000.000 widows,
more than 1.000.000 orphans,
more than 500.000 huts have been burnt,
more than 1.000.000 $ wasted per day, and
many antipersonal Mines buried in the soil
are killing people till today.The total amount of the deaths and destructions
is a macabre number, because it’s almost ten times
the victims of the conflict of Arab-Israeli since 1948.
Moreover, 59% of the Sudanese people became poor,
but there’re very rich people, too.
And many of them belong to the regime.The citizens in Sudan are divided into two classes:
Supporters of the regime and the opposition.
The first class is also divided in two classes:
the masters and the dogs.
The second class we live as foreigners in our own country,
so we’ve demanded justice, equality and freedom from Darfur.The regime rejected our demand, and it used its mad dogs to attack us:
It killed our children, burnt our huts, destroyed our wells, our farms…
More than 3.000.000 people have been homeless,
more than 600.000 immigrated,
more than 400.000 have been killed,
more than 75% of our huts have been burnt into ashes,
more than 100.000 disabled,
more than 200.000 widows,
more than 200.000 orphans.
Do you know what kind of “butcher” I’m talking about?
His name is OMAR AL-BASHIR and his regime is AL-INTIKAS (1)(1) the setback.