Letter to international media regarding your coverage of the Sudanese revolution
Dear journalists, news agencies and TV stations
Welcome to the Sudanese revolution party although you were late in coming but better late than never. I tell you who didn’t show up, alternative media especially one that claims to be the voice of the progressives and the largest news network online. TYT you just missed the chance to add a few thousand people to your subscribers.
Dear media, you may have heard of the toppling of the dictator of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, the war criminal wanted by the international criminal court, you may have seen the viral photo of the Kandakah the young Nubian queen reciting a revolutionary poem, You may have seen the million people march in front of the army headquarters in Sudan. But I don’t think you have seen the young men gunned down in the streets in broad daylight by a shadowy militia roaming the streets in four wheels pick-ups. One, such instance was a man murdered in cold blood by these shadowy groups, when walking back to his home and his crime was coming back from the sit-in. Just today there are reports of snipers and a bullet hitting a young man in the arm at the sit-in.
I followed the international coverage, read a significant number of news articles and watched many news clips regarding the latest revolution in Sudan. They all read as if they were all written by the same person, the coverage lacks depth and accurate knowledge of what is at stake at this moment in Sudan. Despite the western media obsession with Islamic terrorism, your zeal dies down when it is committed against Muslims by Muslims. What is happening in Sudan is textbook Islamic terrorism, a group committing crimes against innocent people in the name of a religion, thinking they and only they can protect God’s message in Sudan, dear media you never used this narrative although it is the truth. The group currently on the way out in Sudan are cut from the same cloth of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organisation that operates freely in some countries in the region and in the west.
One angle the media zoomed in and covered is the role young women played in shaping these protests. I don’t really know why these media outlets are surprised, what were they expecting the young women to be like? Did you think they are the stereotypical Muslim women treated as a second class citizen as portrayed by some in the West? That is not how young Sudanese women are and they have never been like that, you haven’t met my grandmothers, they are strong-willed, confident and generally engaged in social and political activates regardless of their level of education. No better example to cite than Awadeya Mahmoud, a tea seller honoured by John Kerry in the white house.
Yong women have always participated in political protest against this murderous regime from day one. I remember in 1989 after Omar Al-Basher coup, male and female students of the University of Gezira went out on a series of demonstrations and confrontation with the riot police. At that time the regime was shaky and hasn’t established a total grip on power, so they were brutal in repressing the demonstrators. Female students caught demonstrating downtown city of Wad Madani got sentenced ten lashes each, and the male students got extra lashes and head shaving for good measure.
The judge who sentenced these protestors was the head of the judiciary swearing in the leaders of the newly formed military council. I remember being told, the female students showed incredible bravery and deviance and took the lashes without even a murmur in front of the judge and the deputy governor of the state. I was also told the policeman who lashed the girls had tears in his eyes because it was shameful to hit women in Sudan and it is still is unless it is done by this evil regime. Thanks for the coverage but our sisters, mothers and daughters have always been leaders.
Back to the coverage and its lack of insight and depth, first Omar AL Bashir wasn’t removed he sacrificed himself for the sake of saving their Islamic terrorist regime. I would not be surprised if he is orchestrating matters from behind the curtain him and the rest of the gang. The national congress party rule is kleptocratic in nature and best described as a mix of an Islamic terrorist group and a criminal gang with secret structure and a chain of command if defied would result in mysterious accidents. They are the masters of falsehood and conspiracies, and the number of their members is definitely in the tens of thousands if not in the hundreds of thousands because many of them operate in the shadows.
This evil terrorist entity has taken over the Sudanese economy sucking it dry to spend their loot in luxury living, securing their power, political regional ambitions and financing their political activities. Their Islamic terrorist links are not hidden, they were involved in the attempt to assassinate the Ex-president Hosni Mubarak, were involved in the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Uganda, bombing of USS Cole, their members fought with bin Laden in Afghanistan, gave refuge to Osama bin Laden and Carlos the Jackal beside all the atrocities they committed in Sudan which is too many to mention.
They pedal drugs to the youth brought to the country in shipping containers. Their criminality and ruthlessness knew no bounds just yesterday they brought large quantities of poisoned food to the sit-in area that made people sick. If this deep state is not uprooted they will return full of more hate (if that is possible) and vengeance wanting the people to pay for daring to dispose of their terrorist gang. Sudan will then descend into chaos, and there might be a new armed resistance destabilising Sudan and the region opening the door for piracy on the red sea, mass migration to Europe and of course the brutalisation of the whole of Sudan this time.
Next time you cover Sudan’s revolution just keep this in mind (Wa Al Hal Fi Al Bal).
Mohamed Hamour
Not a journalist
17.04.2019
