almohagig – Agencies
This message from the General Arab Conference comes to the thirty-third Arab Summit held in Bahrain at a time when Sudan is subjected to the war of domination, colonialism, and settlement colonisation, which have ravaged its infrastructure, undermined its security and stability, and displaced about 40% of its population, leaving them displaced or refugees.
The crimes of this war are not limited to destruction and displacement; all forms of war crimes, including the most severe, have been practised. This includes ethnic cleansing targeting African tribes in Darfur, especially the Masalit tribe, where the Rapid Support Forces militia massacred thousands of its males, expelled its women and children from their historical cities and villages, plundered their properties, and accommodated settlers brought from outside Sudan in the homes of citizens in those towns and villages, in a scene reminiscent to Arabs of what happened in Palestine at the hands of Zionist Aragon militias and Haganah. It’s worth noting that the militia began its crimes in the states of Khartoum and Jazeera, where markets, industrial areas, electricity, and water production stations were destroyed, and the remaining inhabitants were deprived of all services, especially health services, due to the militia converting many health institutions into military barracks.
The General Arab Conference, which consists of independent Arab popular work institutions (the Arab National Conference, the Islamic National Conference, the Arab Parties Conference, the Progressive Arab Front, and the International Jerusalem Foundation), expresses the present and future concerns of the Arab nation, representing the conscience of the Arab people from the ocean to the Gulf, alerts the Arab Summit and regional and international organisations to the nature of the war imposed on Sudan by Western imperialist Atlantic powers and global Zionism.
From the standpoint of national and moral responsibility, the following is emphasised:
1. The main goal of this war is to establish the authority of Western and global Zionist powers over Sudan and to re-engineer its social conditions through the displacement of its citizens and the settlement of foreigners unrelated to Sudan. In case of failure to achieve this, the alternative goal is the division and fragmentation of Sudan, followed by the control of its parts one by one.
2. This war has set Sudan back decades, destroying its infrastructure, impoverishing its citizens whose belongings were plundered by the militia, destroying their sources of livelihood, and making life difficult for them in their own country, forcing them to migrate so that the process of resettlement and colonisation could be completed by those whose homelands in Central and West Africa are being squeezed by Western powers, who seek to expel them to Sudan, the “land of the new covenant.”
3. This war directly targets Arab national security, of which Sudanese national security is a fundamental pillar. It’s worth reminding that this war started on April 13, 2023, at the Marawi military base under the slogan of opposing Egyptian-Sudanese military coordination and cooperation, where the militia captured several Egyptian army officers who were sharing security duties with their Sudanese counterparts at the southern gate and walls of the Arab nation.
4. Moral and national duty requires the General Arab Conference to take a decisive stand in support of Sudan, politically and financially, against this war. It also imposes on it to hold Western countries and Arab and African regimes involved in this war legal and political responsibility to the extent that ensures the cessation of their sponsorship and support for the war and forces them to compensate for damages through reconstruction operations and other measures.
As the General Arab Conference places this critical message on the table of the Arab Summit and in the hands of Arab leaders, it wishes the thirty-third Arab Summit success in serving the issues of the nation, foremost among them the issue of Palestine, in light of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and hopes it succeeds in taking authentic, principled positions on the Sudanese issue, which cannot be separated from the Palestinian issue.”
