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SUDAN, AFRICA’S SHAME
A visit to Sudan a few weeks ago by United States Secretary of State,
Condoleezza Rice, was yet another occasion for the Sudanese people to
try to wash their dirty garments in public.The display of barbarity
that was witnesssed during Rice’s visit to that war-torn country
rendered most people in their right minds speechless. At best, the
uncouth behavior of the Sudanese on this occasion can be described as
the shame of Africa.
Scheduled to have a tête-à tête with that country’s leader, Omar el
Bashir in his ultra-secure walled home in Darfur, Rice’s motorcade was
given the shabbiest treatment imaginable by the Sudanese presidential
guards who held up part of Rice’s motorcade, rough-handled her Arabic
interpreter before barring U.S aides and press reporters from
entering the building where the U.S Secretary of State was scheduled
to hold talks with the Sudanese president. NBC diplomatic reporter,
Andrea Mitchell, who attempted to field a question relating to alleged
government-sponsored atrocities committed in the Darfur region, was
was brazenly brutalized and shoved to the back of the room by security
forces.
Now, this is shocking to say the least!
These boorish brothers of ours are not even content with butchering
their kith and kin. They now have the temerity to display their
barbarity to the entire world. Is it not sad that these narrow-minded
fellows have targeted the U.S, a country that is doing her level best
in conjunction with the United Nations to restore peace in that
volatile spot on the African landscape? Let’s face it: America is
under no dire obligation to stop the Sudanese from slaughtering
Sudanese. If the Sudanese have elected to treat their brothers and
sisters like cockroaches, it is not up to Americans to come and drum
some sense into their skulls! Condoleezza and her boss in Washington
D.C are simply doing what it takes to call to order a bunch of
demented people gone wild.
At this juncture, I am not even going to bother asking the obvious
question: what is Omar el- Bashir doing to mend fences with Americans?
I will rather ask the less obvious one: what will it take to prevent
the Sudanese people from comporting themselves like a bunch of wild
lunatics?
That’s the thorny question!
PETER W.VAKUNTA
MADISON , U.S.A
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