"The Right to Self-Determination" According to the Will of the Colonizers!
The influence of the infidel colonizing West has settled in the lands of Muslims, fragmenting the country, tearing it into several pieces, making it disjointed, with shattered sides, a piece here and another there. What happened in Iraq of fragmentation and ethnic federalism, what happened in Pakistan of separating the East from the West, what was done in cutting East Timor from Indonesia, and what was done in Sudan of separating the South from its North, until the fragmented Muslim countries became moving towards more fragmentation and division.
Our Islamic countries have become a stage for the struggle for wealth and influence between America and Europe, and it is regrettable that some of the sons of the nation are tools of this conflict, whether in the government or in the rebel movements, as is happening today in Sudan, while the only loser in this conflict are the innocent who are powerless.
In order to achieve its divisive goals in Sudan, the infidel West has used many malicious methods and means and set plans after plans, stirring up ethnic, even geographic and tribal prejudices, and promoting the idea of "the right to self-determination," which has become the mitigated expression of separation and division in the language of international politics.
The series of partition began since Britain's occupation of Egypt in 1882, where it began working to divide it, according to its plan drawn for the Islamic countries. America and Britain prepared public opinion to accept the idea of secession by concluding an agreement in 1953 which stipulated what was called "the right to self-determination" for the Sudanese people and conducting a popular referendum under international supervision, so that agreement was a prelude to secession from Egypt and the declaration of the Sudanese Republic in 1956.
Britain's cunning and malice did not stop at this limit, but rather went beyond that to working to divide Sudan into two states, the first in the north and the second in the south. It began to seek to implement this plan after the end of the First World War, that is, in 1922, and followed a policy of isolating the north from the south, so it placed strict restrictions on the spread of Islam in the southern regions (Equatoria, Bahr al-Ghazal and Upper Nile) and prevented the spread of everything that belongs to the northerners from customs and traditions, and made the southerners look at them with suspicion and doubt. In 1930, Britain issued a decision stating that southerners are considered people different from northerners, and pushed missionaries and missionary missions to support the rebels, spy, incite sedition, spread the spirit of rebellion and disobedience, and spread hostile and biased ideas against Muslims. Before leaving Sudan, Britain took many measures that would directly and indirectly distance the northerners and southerners through its agents in its neighboring colonies.
With the shift of influence from Britain's hand to America's hand, the latter adopted the idea of partition, but with its own methods and means. Despite the difference in American interests from British interests in Sudan, based on the concept of utilitarianism dictated by the capitalist principle, the basic idea, which is separating the south from the north and dividing Sudan, did not differ between them, and this convergence between them occurs in some international issues, as is the case in the Islamic countries.
One of the most dangerous methods that the countries of disbelief, America and Britain, agreed on to separate southern Sudan from its north is; internationalizing the issue, that is, taking it out of the hands of its owners to the hands of the major countries to resolve and liquidate it according to their desires and interests, and this is what happened with regard to the issue of southern Sudan, as it has become, due to the large number of international parties involved in it, as if it is non-Sudanese, or rather non-Islamic! Southern Sudan was opened to the work of missionaries and missions, which reached thirty-five missions, and also to organizations that pretend to work for humanitarian motives and to preserve what they call human rights and provide financial assistance to justify their existence and sabotage under this cover; because Sudan does not need their aid, it is in fact a rich country that God has endowed with enormous natural resources, which is contrary to what is rumored that it is one of the poorest countries in the world!
Agreements were signed between the rebels and the state, and the issue appeared as an inherent dispute between the African Christians in the South and the Arab Muslims in the North, so they approved what they called the "Declaration of Principles," which stipulated what they called "the right to self-determination" for the southerners, so this idea returned to circulation again and considered separation as one of the options open to them after conducting a popular referendum on it.
This is what actually happened, as on 7/9/2011 the separation of the South was officially announced, and it became a state, so Britain and America achieved what they aspired to, and the Sudanese presidency and the Council of Ministers officially announced their acceptance of the result of the referendum on the self-determination of South Sudan (previously known), which came by 98.83% in favor of separation and the establishment of the southern state (the dream of the infidel West), and the American President Obama then congratulated those he called the people of South Sudan on this result, which was planned with cunning intelligence, and implemented by the rulers and politicians with brilliant stupidity!!
Today, the state of South Sudan is on the verge of a civil war, as it has been witnessing continuous military and political tensions for months between the two partners in power: President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his First Deputy Riek Machar, which reached the point of renewed military confrontations during the recent weeks. The current conflict, which lasted for many years, is mostly a rivalry between two parties, the Dinka and Nuer tribes, which led to several rounds of military confrontations, including the civil war that lasted for five years between 2013 and 2018 and claimed the lives of about 400,000 people and ended with a fragile peace agreement in 2018.
This is the fate of countries that are founded on tribal, ethnic, or regional approvals, and the series of dividing Sudan is still ongoing until this hour and in the midst of the current conflict, as indications have emerged of the possibility of the Darfur region separating from Sudan after the Rapid Support Forces stopped exports heading to Egypt from the areas it controls in the Darfur region. The advisor to the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Al-Basha Muhammad Tabiq, stated that the support forces need to form a government in the areas under its control as a paramount necessity, and that this step should receive immediate welcome and recognition from the international community to maintain the unity of the Sudanese state.
In addition, the rapid field events in Sudan are moving in one direction, which is the army regaining control over most of the regions in Sudan and leaving the western region, especially Darfur, to the Rapid Support Forces, and if this trend is completed, the country is heading towards actual division.
It seems that America's interest is approaching accelerating the separation of Darfur as it did in South Sudan, as it previously turned a blind eye to talking about political solutions to the Darfur problem, because it did not want to be preoccupied with the South file and the Darfur file at the same time, so it left the Darfur file burning until its time. It only dealt with humanitarian and security files and the issue of the displaced without seriously resolving them, and tried each time to cool the heated atmosphere from Europe and reassure the international community about the calm conditions in the region, knowing full well the heat of the Darfur file. As is known, the conflict in Darfur was originally just simple traditional problems that usually occur between tribes, related to areas of agriculture, irrigation, grazing and water gatherings, and these problems were quickly resolved through tribal leaders. It is known that this type of problem is considered normal in all tribal areas, and it is one of the natural disputes that arise in mobile tribal societies, but Europe, as a result of America's exclusivity in southern Sudan without giving it - especially Britain and France - a role in it, that is, in southern Sudan, ignited the fire of sedition in Darfur between the Arab tribes on the one hand and the African tribes on the other, all of whom are Muslims. Europe focused on stirring up the Darfur problem militarily, politically and in the media to embarrass America and disrupt the situation of the Bashir regime, which was loyal to America at the time, so that America would not enjoy its precious catch in the south, and so that Europe would find a foothold in Sudan.
The time has come to seize the file, and America is doing it. Thus, Sudan has become a toy in the hands of America, doing whatever it wants with it, and the American solution to the ongoing conflict in Sudan and the solution to Darfur will be with the same scenarios that America played to separate the South, and in that way it will achieve what it wanted from tearing Sudan apart and fragmenting it, but at the hands of its sons who are participating, implementing, colluding or silent!
The position that the people of Sudan must take on these conspiracies and conflicts and stopping the fall of the regions of Sudan is not to persist in falsehood and continue the policy of submission and acceptance of being chess pieces that our enemies put us in any trench they want, and also we must not rely on criminal America in addressing the issues of the country, and not make our country a field of conflict between the enemies of the nation, as this is something that Islam does not accept, and drags the country into a major disaster; of humiliation and weakness, division and disintegration, ruin, and betrayal of God, His Messenger, and the believers. The disbelievers kill souls, plunder wealth, usurp rights, and roam freely in the lands of Muslims, there is no difference for them between Palestine and Iraq, nor between Indonesia, Afghanistan, Sudan, and other Muslim countries.
When will the nation wake up and know who its enemies are, and act towards them based on this understanding, and know their tools and reject them like the kernel is rejected, and work for its dignity and honor by taking Islam alone as its path to renaissance and salvation, by implementing God's law and following the Prophet of Guidance Muhammad ﷺ in all matters of its political and other life, both small and large? The Almighty says: ﴿But no, by your Lord, they will not [truly] believe until they make you, [O Muhammad], judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves, and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in [full, willing] submission﴾, and He says: ﴿And if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is the best [way] and best in result﴾, in that is the great victory ﴿O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life﴾, so will you respond?
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Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Rana Mustafa
