In the grand scheme of things, China’s indirect involvement in the Darfur conflict deserves all the scrutiny it can get, but in the microcosm, this is completely uncalled for and unacceptable.
Sudan denied yesterday that they were killed during a rescue operation but Beijing said they were killed after clashes with Sudanese troops. Khartoum insists the kidnappers panicked when a helicopter hovered overhead.
Also, Sudan accused the Justice and Equality Movement of abduction and the killing, while the rebels dismissed the accusations saying Misseriya people were behind the murder.
It’s still unclear who is responsible for the murders, but I don’t see any motivations the government can have for doing this.
Dear Darfur rebels,
I hope I’m wrong but if you were behind this, then way to go. First it was your attack on Khartoum, and now, it’s this. You do realize, there are better ways to get your point across right? Clearly, this isn’t one of them. It only does more harm than good to your supremely legitimate cause.
My condolences go out to the families of the workers.
SudaneseThinker
SudaneseThinker
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It’s vert unfortunate that guest like Chinese are targeted in Sudan.
They are the people who are helping rebuilding our country, and they do it very well.
What if the Chinese were not here ?
No oil, no refinery, no pipeline, no merowe dam, no bridge, no favorital loan…
While i don’t condone the murder of the chinese “guest” workers, what “development” are you exactly talking about??? And who gets to benefit ultimately? Are you even aware of the consequences of the Merowe dam, kajbar dam? Is it development when the indigenous Nubian population is being forced from their lands WITHOUT compensation and thousands of years worth of Nubian history and archaeological treasures being inundated?? Not to mention the severe environmental damage that will inevitably result from this disastrous and short-sighted venture. Nubians and other non-Nubian inhabitants such as the Manasir tribe have been voicing their opposition for years about the dam project and decried the fact that NO ONE consulted them about building dams on their ancestral homes and their forced relocation to government built residences in the middle of the desert, far away from the nile and the fertile agricultural land, from the only way of life they know. When the resistance showed no sign of abating the Sudanese government sent in security forces that opened live fire on UNARMED villagers, set fire to thousands of palm trees, one of the major economic and cultural life-lines of Nubian rural life. In addition to this, if you aren’t aware of this, but the Khartoum gov’t is already selling huge tracts of Sudanese agricultural lands to foreign investors from Egypt and the gulf countries, all this part of Egypt’s plan to deal with overpopulation and exhaustion of their agricultural lands, and which will entail the resettling of MILLIONS of Egyptian fellahin on lands that were unlawfully expropriated. The end result will be the ETHNIC-CLEANSING of the Nubian people, the disintegration of their social fabric with the hopie that they will abandon their homes and be assimilated into the ruling Arabized culture. Save me this drivel of “development”. Just go on youtube and search for Kajbar dam, manasir tribe and maybe you’ll have an idea about what is really going on.
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