Barriers to Development in West Kordofan State (2/2) ✍️ Muhammad Qur Hamid
There is no doubt that cultural diversity and multi-ethnicity have long represented a major dilemma in South Kordofan and its western society's quest for national and patriotic identity.
.. This is perhaps what opened the political path early on, particularly in the Nuba Mountains regions, for the rebellion led by Yusuf Koh, who through his actions became the Nuba right-hand man of the rebel Dr. John. Garang in 1983 AD.
Dr. John Garang, who entered the forest after former President Jaafar Numeiri adopted the Sharbaa newspaper,
Garang saw the population of the Nuba Mountains as isolated by the same political equation that had displaced populations in the south since the beginning of independence and the formation of the modern Sudanese state. The war that began in 1955 only fueled the inferno. the war between the south and the north… sometimes in the name of religion and sometimes through the victory of different ideologies during the conflict. A political climate of two pluralist and two totalitarian governments.
Garang fought fiercely, placing the country at a major historical crossroads… until the National Salvation Revolution broke out, which suffered from the same political complex and the search for a political, ideological and even national… which ignited the heat of war. war when the citizen entered into the fighting… after… If the fighting was limited to the military forces
This political, military and military act stopped the development of this state (Western Kordofan) and prevented investors from reclaiming fertile lands, plains flowing with fresh water and rocks serving as waterfalls to produce electrical energy.
One of the obstacles to political development that has taken on a political character in our country, moving it away from the country of development, is the Abyei problem, which has been a thorn in the side of the popular movement that the imperialist West had bet on his victory throughout his career. the war years… and what was not achieved for the movement
Raising the flags of the Nok Dinka identity in Abyei land, located in West Kordofan, where the Misseriya welcomed them for years of ancient history, the SPLM took refuge before the referendum in South Sudan on the option of unity or secession. The separation therefore took place and the Hague Court offered a parcel of Abyei territory to the Nok in exchange for the failure of the committee of experts to determine a location. The Nine Sheikhs of Nok. This introduction and the adoption of the obstacles it summarized…had a major impact on the remote areas of West Kordofan…Al-Bashir's theocratic (religious) government made it a bastion to mobilize and support the southern war (the Mujahideen). … the People's Defense) due to its geopolitical situation and its proximity… which caused this. The strategic region is about the light and the circle of development and development and the place under the darkness of darkness and backwardness… but the question the newspaper asks… is where I will take the city Al-Meiram is a model based on the hypothesis that political factors are expected to have the most influence on development lag. However, the question posed by the document is: does the Al-Meiram region occupy a strategic location? . this agricultural trade zone… Why has the center always maintained it as a producer, exporter and feeder for the Kordofan and central markets, without any development occurring in the region itself? The answer to this question is at the center of the discussion, particularly on the fact that the group should increase the number of obstacles to development.
As we review the general reasons and justifications imposed by complex political situations behind the development delay of Al-Merem region.
And as these policies, characterized by their character of exclusion and monopolization of privileges, were a Machiavellian pretext to keep certain communities stuck in the swamp of poverty… However, in this part, I will focus on some of the historical events . factors that played a negative role in the development record of the Al-Merem region and the lack of respect for its human dignity.
I mentioned that Al-Merem's geographical location is in the extreme southwest of West Kordofan State and its geopolitical position is adjacent to Southern State, which borders the eastern outskirts of the states of Darfur…and its penetration into a narrow tongue extending southwest, extending on average northwest from South and East Darfur State to Central Africa as an entrance to West Africa. All this posed a major security threat, such that the center would be assassinated from this location. southwest gateway to the vast region of Sudan.
This situation in the city of Al-Meiram was the subject of reflection on the part of the theocratic (religious) government of national salvation.
The first blow of delay that the center put in the coffin of the region was the military operations which were welcomed by the inhabitants of the region… where the legions and knights of the mujahideen conquered the cities and the south before death. the trains entered and the whistle of General Al-Junaid Hassan Al-Ahmar…
Few years had passed since the militarization of the region's population until it was more reactive than before and the Popular Defense Brigades were formed.
Where I repeatedly spoke about a series of obstacles to development, where I mentioned that the situation of Al-Merem city is closely linked to geopolitics and that it is a center and a base launch event for the Mujahideen organizing the National Conference for the Government of the Revolution of National Salvation… and where I mentioned that the leaders and commanders of the People's Defense dedicated themselves to the theocratic discourse of the State, to make sing the feelings of the people of this region. All this is an insurmountable obstacle to the revolution. development of the city of Al-Meiram.
It is a systematic and deliberate action aimed at diverting a person's attention from his or her crucial issues and determining his or her position on the issues of the nation as a whole.
However, I will introduce one of the most important reasons for the underdevelopment of Al-Maryam and its impoverishment policy.
The National Congress, represented by the traders who monopolized economic privileges, played a negative role in this direction, adopting a policy of impoverishment of the region.
Preserve the towns of Al-Meirem, Al-Harika, Al-Maqdama and Al-Fouda as an agricultural producer, source of raw materials, source of food for the markets of the geographic north and rich resource and tributary to finance the treasury of Khartoum, put the artificers, the dinosaurs and the war brokers to work to keep this empty city “on its thrones and kneeling” on its spits after its honeycombs and honey had been sucked out. This is because the development of Merem and its opening to the south and east of Sudan Darfur and the penetration of its coastal language towards Central Africa… This could make it a commercial center, which would reduce its exports of its raw agricultural and forestry products, monopolized by the parties to build and establish neighboring localities. to extort money from Merem… and fuel and lubricate the gears of the war machine with the sweat of its citizens. For all this and for these reasons, the center followed the policy of impoverishing the people. .. Perhaps the role of the educated elite among the people Al-Meiram and its notables were among those who were concerned about the organization of the National Conference with the conflict over the Emirate of the Wicked, which was digging a gap between them right and left… where the princes were polarized, each isolated from what they injected into the veins of the other… making Al-Meiram a city “of conflict of passion and identity, which has reduced its social movement towards issues that serve the development and reconstruction of the region… also.” such as the negative role of the expatriate among the intellectuals of Al-Meiram and their isolation away from any investment that beautifies the face of the city. Perhaps the third Al-Asafi were the sons of Al-Marim in the Al-Fula legislature during the rescue. Those who devoted their parliamentary speech to what served the interests of their parties to the detriment of the voices of the people of the region, whose voices were hoarse with poverty.
