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SUDAN: Massacre in Heiban as Nuba Genocide enters its Sixth Year.
Posted:
23 May 2016 09:08 PM PDT
By
Religious Liberty Analyst, Elizabeth Kendal, 23 May 2016
Photos emerging
from Heiban in South Kordofan’s conflict-wracked Nuba Mountains provide fresh
evidence that the Government of Sudan continues to perpetrate crimes against
humanity.
At
6 p.m. on 1 May, two Sudanese Air Force MiG fighter jets attacked
residential areas within Heiban town in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan,
killing six children, three from one family: Nidal Abdolrahman Ibrahim (12),
Ibrahim Abdolrahman Ibrahim (10), Jihan Abdolrahman Ibrahim (5), Hafez Mahmud
(10) Kuku Dawli (4), and Yusif Yagoub (4). Having seen the photos, I can tell
you, that the heads and limbs of these small children were literally
shredded.
What is most important to understand is that the “Heiban
Massacre” is not an isolated incident. To the contrary, it is but one episode in
the Government of Sudan’s genocidal jihad against the non-Arab and mostly
non-Muslim peoples of Sudan’s “New South” – Abyei, South Kordofan and Blue Nile
– a campaign that has just entered its sixth year. For the Christians of the
Nuba Mountains, it is the second genocide in a generation.
BACKGROUND
 |
| click on map to
enlarge | On 9 January 2005, the Government of Sudan
(GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement (CPA) ending more than 20 years of civil war and Islamic jihad.
The CPA gave the GoS seven years in which to “make unity attractive”. After that
time, South Sudan would be entitled to hold a referendum on self-determination;
and the three contested non-Arab and SPLM-aligned regions – Abyei (which
straddles the North-South border), along with South Kordofan and Blue Nile
states (both in the north) would be entitled to popular consultations through
which the people would determine their own futures.
As the seven year
interim period drew to a close, the GoS realised that, having failed
spectacularly to “make unity attractive”, it was on the verge of losing 25
percent of its land mass, 80 percent of its forests and 75 percent of its
oil.
On 27 April 1993, at the height of the preceding Nuba Genocide,
clerics at the El-Obeid Mosque, North Kordofan, issued the now infamous
fatwa:
“An insurgent who was previously a Moslem is now
an apostate [simply by virtue of his political opposition]; and a
non-Moslem is a non-believer standing as a bulwark against the spread of Islam,
and Islam has granted the freedom of killing both of them.”
To the Arab-supremacist Islamists in Khartoum, the secession
of South Sudan would make this fatwa and this
genocide more urgent than ever.
 |
| click on map to
enlarge | As the 9 July 2011 referendum on southern
secession loomed, the GoS moved pre-emptively to seize control of the three
contested regions: oil-rich Abyei and South Kordofan, and Blue Nile which has
gold, water and which generates hydro-electric power.
GoS bombing of
Abyei commenced on 19 May 2011, followed by a military invasion that sent some
20,000 mostly-Christian, Dinka Ngok residents fleeing south.
The assault
on South Kordofan started on 5 June 2011 with door-to-door “sweeping” operations
in the capital, Kadugli, designed to “decapitate” the Christian community. These
were followed by aerial bombardments, scorched earth warfare and the closure of
the region to all humanitarian aid: an act designed to facilitate mass
starvation.
On 9 July 2011, South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to secede
from Sudan; and on 28 August 2011, GoS forces flooded into Blue Nile.
For
more background see:
“SUDAN:
Nuba Genocide Resumes”,
by Religious Liberty Analyst Elizabeth Kendal, 24
June 2011.
“SUDAN:
war spreads across ‘new south’ into Blue Nile”
By Religious Liberty
Analyst Elizabeth Kendal, 13 Sept 2011.
GENOCIDE NO SECRET
On 31 August 2014,
Sudan’s most senior military and security officials met in the National Defense
College, Khartoum, for a Military and Security Committee Meeting to discuss the
“Management of Military Activities”. The minutes of that meeting were leaked to
long-time Sudan expert Eric Reeves, who had them translated and verified as
authentic. The minutes reveal an official policy of genocide by means of mass
starvation – and not only across the New South, but in the refugee camps in
South Sudan's oil-rich Unity and Upper Nile states, which Khartoum wants
closed.
Complete text: minutes
for the August 31, 2014 meeting of senior NCP security/military
officials. Eric Reeves, 29 Sept 2014.
See also: “Sudan
Exposed: 'Starve them', 'empty the camps'”
By Religious Liberty
Analyst Elizabeth Kendal, 12 Nov 2014
AND "On
the move again; 70,000 refugees compelled to leave [Yida] Camp." Nuba
Reports, 18 Dec 2015.
In November 2015, Sudan’s Defence Minister Awad
Ibnauf assured the federal parliament that all areas controlled by the Sudan
People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) “will be liberated through a massive
military operation”.
In early February 2016 observers reported seeing
massive columns of troops (army and paramilitary – including foreign jihadists)
moving into South Kordofan along with heavy weapons in preparation for this
year’s dry season offensive.
See: "SUDAN:
Nuba brace for more jihad"
By Religious Liberty Analyst, Elizabeth
Kendal, 17 Feb 2016.
Having encircled the Nuba Mountains, the GoS is now
bombing and strafing civilian areas, as evidenced by the 1 May 2016 attack on
Heiban.
Though massively outnumbered and out-gunned, the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) is holding its ground.
Latest
reports:"Nuba
Conflict Intensifies as Rains Arrive"
Nuba Reports, 20 May 2016
"The
Shrapnel Finds Us Wherever We Hide"
By Tom Rhodes and Musa John,
Foreign Policy, 19 May 2016
"'Thousands'
fled bombing in Sudan's Blue Nile this month"
Dabanga, 23 May
2016
Meanwhile in Khartoum,
hundreds of Sudanese political and civic actors, as well as individuals have
signed a petition condemning and expressing their horror at the 1 May 2016
“Heiban Massacre”. Signatories include 29 heads of all the major opposition
parties in Sudan, 30 representatives of civil society, along with hundreds of
individuals.
The signatories “call for the reawakening of the Sudanese
national consciousness and for individuals and organisations to take campaign
actions in response to this crime.” They also “call upon the regional and
international actors . . . to exert pressure on the Sudanese Government to end
this violence and make Heiban the last aerial bombardment against
civilians.”
For full list of signatories, see: “The
Massacre of the Children of Heiban: Make it the Last Crime of the Sudanese
Government’s Aerial Bombardments.”
Eric Reeves, 13 May
2016.
These opposition voices need and deserve all the support they can
get. So too do the imperilled forgotten peoples of Sudan’s New South. The Nuba
are Christians, the
legacy of Australian pioneer missionaries. As they face their second
genocide in a generation, one is left to wonder,
“Why?”
Why, as the Nuba face the existential threat posed
by greed-fuelled, state sanctioned, genocidal racism and Islamic jihad, they are
abandoned to their fate?
Why is their plight of such little
interest to the West?
 Are they too black?
Is their plight too
politically incorrect?
Are they too Christian at a time when Western
“progressives” are dreaming of a post-Christian age?
One thing is
certain, this genocide will continue until either the Government
of Sudan achieves its aim of repopulating the resource-rich “New South” with
Arab Muslims loyal to Khartoum, OR, nations of
conscience act together, with conviction and commitment, to force Khartoum to
stop the killings, open the regions, and start the hard work of finding
sustainable solutions.
-----------------------
Her
second book, ‘After Saturday Comes Sunday’: Understanding the Christian
Crisis in the Middle East, is being published by Wipf and Stock (Eugene, OR,
USA), due for release in the coming months.
Posted:
23 May 2016 09:08 PM PDT
By
Religious Liberty Analyst, Elizabeth Kendal, 23 May 2016
Photos emerging
from Heiban in South Kordofan’s conflict-wracked Nuba Mountains provide fresh
evidence that the Government of Sudan continues to perpetrate crimes against
humanity.
At
6 p.m. on 1 May, two Sudanese Air Force MiG fighter jets attacked
residential areas within Heiban town in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan,
killing six children, three from one family: Nidal Abdolrahman Ibrahim (12),
Ibrahim Abdolrahman Ibrahim (10), Jihan Abdolrahman Ibrahim (5), Hafez Mahmud
(10) Kuku Dawli (4), and Yusif Yagoub (4). Having seen the photos, I can tell
you, that the heads and limbs of these small children were literally
shredded.
What is most important to understand is that the “Heiban
Massacre” is not an isolated incident. To the contrary, it is but one episode in
the Government of Sudan’s genocidal jihad against the non-Arab and mostly
non-Muslim peoples of Sudan’s “New South” – Abyei, South Kordofan and Blue Nile
– a campaign that has just entered its sixth year. For the Christians of the
Nuba Mountains, it is the second genocide in a generation.
BACKGROUND
|
| click on map to
enlarge | On 9 January 2005, the Government of Sudan
(GoS) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement (CPA) ending more than 20 years of civil war and Islamic jihad.
The CPA gave the GoS seven years in which to “make unity attractive”. After that
time, South Sudan would be entitled to hold a referendum on self-determination;
and the three contested non-Arab and SPLM-aligned regions – Abyei (which
straddles the North-South border), along with South Kordofan and Blue Nile
states (both in the north) would be entitled to popular consultations through
which the people would determine their own futures.
As the seven year
interim period drew to a close, the GoS realised that, having failed
spectacularly to “make unity attractive”, it was on the verge of losing 25
percent of its land mass, 80 percent of its forests and 75 percent of its
oil.
On 27 April 1993, at the height of the preceding Nuba Genocide,
clerics at the El-Obeid Mosque, North Kordofan, issued the now infamous
fatwa:
“An insurgent who was previously a Moslem is now
an apostate [simply by virtue of his political opposition]; and a
non-Moslem is a non-believer standing as a bulwark against the spread of Islam,
and Islam has granted the freedom of killing both of them.”
To the Arab-supremacist Islamists in Khartoum, the secession
of South Sudan would make this fatwa and this
genocide more urgent than ever.
|
| click on map to
enlarge | As the 9 July 2011 referendum on southern
secession loomed, the GoS moved pre-emptively to seize control of the three
contested regions: oil-rich Abyei and South Kordofan, and Blue Nile which has
gold, water and which generates hydro-electric power.
GoS bombing of
Abyei commenced on 19 May 2011, followed by a military invasion that sent some
20,000 mostly-Christian, Dinka Ngok residents fleeing south.
The assault
on South Kordofan started on 5 June 2011 with door-to-door “sweeping” operations
in the capital, Kadugli, designed to “decapitate” the Christian community. These
were followed by aerial bombardments, scorched earth warfare and the closure of
the region to all humanitarian aid: an act designed to facilitate mass
starvation.
On 9 July 2011, South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to secede
from Sudan; and on 28 August 2011, GoS forces flooded into Blue Nile.
For
more background see:
“SUDAN:
Nuba Genocide Resumes”,
by Religious Liberty Analyst Elizabeth Kendal, 24
June 2011.
“SUDAN:
war spreads across ‘new south’ into Blue Nile”
By Religious Liberty
Analyst Elizabeth Kendal, 13 Sept 2011.
GENOCIDE NO SECRET
On 31 August 2014,
Sudan’s most senior military and security officials met in the National Defense
College, Khartoum, for a Military and Security Committee Meeting to discuss the
“Management of Military Activities”. The minutes of that meeting were leaked to
long-time Sudan expert Eric Reeves, who had them translated and verified as
authentic. The minutes reveal an official policy of genocide by means of mass
starvation – and not only across the New South, but in the refugee camps in
South Sudan's oil-rich Unity and Upper Nile states, which Khartoum wants
closed.
Complete text: minutes
for the August 31, 2014 meeting of senior NCP security/military
officials. Eric Reeves, 29 Sept 2014.
See also: “Sudan
Exposed: 'Starve them', 'empty the camps'”
By Religious Liberty
Analyst Elizabeth Kendal, 12 Nov 2014
AND "On
the move again; 70,000 refugees compelled to leave [Yida] Camp." Nuba
Reports, 18 Dec 2015.
In November 2015, Sudan’s Defence Minister Awad
Ibnauf assured the federal parliament that all areas controlled by the Sudan
People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) “will be liberated through a massive
military operation”.
In early February 2016 observers reported seeing
massive columns of troops (army and paramilitary – including foreign jihadists)
moving into South Kordofan along with heavy weapons in preparation for this
year’s dry season offensive.
See: "SUDAN:
Nuba brace for more jihad"
By Religious Liberty Analyst, Elizabeth
Kendal, 17 Feb 2016.
Having encircled the Nuba Mountains, the GoS is now
bombing and strafing civilian areas, as evidenced by the 1 May 2016 attack on
Heiban.
Though massively outnumbered and out-gunned, the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) is holding its ground.
Latest
reports:"Nuba
Conflict Intensifies as Rains Arrive"
Nuba Reports, 20 May 2016
"The
Shrapnel Finds Us Wherever We Hide"
By Tom Rhodes and Musa John,
Foreign Policy, 19 May 2016
"'Thousands'
fled bombing in Sudan's Blue Nile this month"
Dabanga, 23 May
2016
Meanwhile in Khartoum,
hundreds of Sudanese political and civic actors, as well as individuals have
signed a petition condemning and expressing their horror at the 1 May 2016
“Heiban Massacre”. Signatories include 29 heads of all the major opposition
parties in Sudan, 30 representatives of civil society, along with hundreds of
individuals.
The signatories “call for the reawakening of the Sudanese
national consciousness and for individuals and organisations to take campaign
actions in response to this crime.” They also “call upon the regional and
international actors . . . to exert pressure on the Sudanese Government to end
this violence and make Heiban the last aerial bombardment against
civilians.”
For full list of signatories, see: “The
Massacre of the Children of Heiban: Make it the Last Crime of the Sudanese
Government’s Aerial Bombardments.”
Eric Reeves, 13 May
2016.
These opposition voices need and deserve all the support they can
get. So too do the imperilled forgotten peoples of Sudan’s New South. The Nuba
are Christians, the
legacy of Australian pioneer missionaries. As they face their second
genocide in a generation, one is left to wonder,
“Why?”
Why, as the Nuba face the existential threat posed
by greed-fuelled, state sanctioned, genocidal racism and Islamic jihad, they are
abandoned to their fate?
Why is their plight of such little
interest to the West?
Are they too black?
Is their plight too
politically incorrect?
Are they too Christian at a time when Western
“progressives” are dreaming of a post-Christian age?
One thing is
certain, this genocide will continue until either the Government
of Sudan achieves its aim of repopulating the resource-rich “New South” with
Arab Muslims loyal to Khartoum, OR, nations of
conscience act together, with conviction and commitment, to force Khartoum to
stop the killings, open the regions, and start the hard work of finding
sustainable solutions.
-----------------------
Her
second book, ‘After Saturday Comes Sunday’: Understanding the Christian
Crisis in the Middle East, is being published by Wipf and Stock (Eugene, OR,
USA), due for release in the coming months.
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Topic: SUDAN: Massacre in Heiban as Nuba Genocide enters its Sixth Year.
