Why now?! ✍️Hedjazia Muhammad Saeed
At that moment, full of wounds, blood and diaspora, someone comes out brandishing the file of the surrender of former President Omar al-Bashir and those with him to the International Criminal Court. The obvious question: Why now?
Is it time to talk about the past while the nation’s present is bleeding? Or is the objective to light a new fuse in an arena whose fires have not yet been extinguished?
If the goal is justice, let it be comprehensive and not selective. Why have we not seen a single prosecution of those who have violated human rights in other countries? Or does justice only apply to those the West wants to punish? This is the double standard we are accustomed to, when justice is used as a political stick and not as a scale of truth.
Then we ask out loud: who killed the people of Darfur?
Is the National Congress alone? Or have some Darfur residents themselves contributed to this tragedy in pursuit of power and gain?
The country has been torn between the struggles of its people, and the result is the same: Sudanese blood in the hands of the Sudanese.
As for the great Sudanese army, it is not complicit in the media controversies nor in the heresies of the channels which manipulate minds.
Our army is a red line. It is the one that remained standing when institutions collapsed, and it is the one that preserved the prestige of the country when some tried to sell it at public auction.
Here is a candid message to journalist Ahmed Taha:
Be as neutral as you pretend to be and let your guests speak to their opponents as they wish.
Don’t interrupt those who disagree with you or bend your balance according to intellectual whims or outside advice.
The viewer is not stupid, but rather reads you as a sentence is read, and knows when you are fair and when you are biased.
To all those who hold peace in times of defeat, we say:
Where were you when the war broke out?
Weren’t you partners in the ignition?
Today, after realizing that the terrain is unforgiving, you talk about stopping the fighting as if the homeland were a negotiation game!
We are for peace, yes…
But not with those who killed, pillaged and displaced, nor with those who extend a hand with a dagger stuck in the side of the nation in the other.
I conclude with a question addressed to every traitor and agent:
How do you sleep when you betray your country?
How can you be happy when you sell the blood of innocent people for fleeting gain or a foreign promise?
History does not forget, the nation does not forgive and Sudan remains… no matter what the conspirators plot.
