Simon Deng: “Walking Barefoot in the Senate”

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Simon Deng called me earlier today and expressed alarm at the lack of leadership by the Obama administration concerning the dire situation in Sudan. Hillary Clinton called it a "ticking time bomb." Catastrophe is imminent. The Bush administration put the conflict on hold through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and a vote for independence for the South, which has suffered unspeakable genocide at the hands of Muslims.

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Sudan is 10 weeks away from the scheduled start of a referendum that would lead to independence for the largely Christian south, and liberate it from the brutal violence and genocide exacted by the Muslim North.

But the Islamic government of Bashir in Khartoum wants the vote to fail, and has already violated the terms of the agreement. Southern Sudan appealed to the Obama adminstration, which passed the buck to the UN. Its response was hardly unexpected, considering the fact that the UN is driven largely by the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Simon Deng has said this is Obama's Rwanda moment:

"… whether they’re going to remain under the islamization and arabization, under enslavement, or they’re going to choose freedom for the first time. I, for one, don’t want to go back to being a slave again. I’ve tasted freedom. I’m proud today to stand in this country, as a free man, speaking to free people.

Of course they’re going to chose freedom. Because freedom is a God given right to all human beings. That being said, we, the people of South Sudan, for sixty years we went through a lot at the hands of the sitting governments in Khartoum. They slaughtered three and a half million South Sudanese. They enslaved thousands. They turned their arms and guns on the people in the Nuba Mountains. They turned their arms and guns on the people in the Blue Nile. And the world came to their senses by saying what happened in western Sudan in Darfur region is genocide."

Simon Deng will be traveling to Washington, DC this week and next week to "walk barefoot" through the Senate and talk to every Senator on Capitol Hill, so that they can't feign ignorance or pretend they were unaware of the coming massacre.

"The Secretary of State, a month ago, Hillary Clinton, said that the problem in South Sudan is a “ticking time bomb”. We don’t want to go back. We don’t want to go back to Islam. We don’t want to go back to enslavement. We don’t want to go back to arabization. We are proud as Africans in that continent. Sudan is the land of the blacks.

And that is why we don’t want to turn our backs to our brothers in Darfur. …  after southern Sudan becomes independent next year we’re still going to be their voice because they’re being victimized the way we’re being victimized in that country. We’re going to Washington to ask our (United States) government that CPA that we talk about it is the legacy of the American government and, I’m speaking directly to President Obama, he was there with me when we talked about the issue in the South Sudan as a senator, shoulder to shoulder, when we talked about the Southern Sudan. I’m asking you, why are you distancing yourself from me, why are you distancing yourself from the issue of Sudan? Why are you putting heavyweights to be envoys here and envoys there, and you’re sending someone who has to learn on the job to be the envoy, knowing the magnitude of the problem in the Sudan? (more here.)"

OIC-Driven UN Tacit Support of Islamic Genocide in Sudan, Rejects Calls for Help Ahead of Vote for Independence

Sudan's oil-producing south is 66 days away from the scheduled start of a politically sensitive referendum on whether to secede or stay part of Sudan, a vote promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war with the north.

Sudan's Muslim north and its south have still not agreed on the position of their shared border and analysts fear conflict could re-erupt in contested zones, some of which contain oil.

"There will not be UN peacekeepers on the buffer zone, it's unrealistic," Alain le Roy, UN Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told journalists shortly after concluding a meeting with representatives from the African Union and several other countries in the Ethiopian capital.

"The common borderline is too wide and (it) is not realistic to deploy troops," he added.

LONG WAR

Diplomats from the UN and the AU have announced that there will be months of "intensive" talks starting with a five-day meeting in Khartoum that begins Sunday aimed at reaching a consensus over the contested oil region of Abyei.

The U.N. has 10,000 peacekeepers stationed in Sudan, not counting its joint mission with the African Union in the western province of Darfur.

Most of the 10,000 are in the south and in three former civil war battle ground areas along the border. More than 2 million people died during the two-decade long war between Sudan's Islamic north and the south, where most are Christians or follow traditional religions.

Southern officials have accused Khartoum of arming militias to provoke conflict and demonstrate the south cannot govern itself ahead of the 2011 secession poll, scheduled for January 9.

Ambassador John Bolton explained it this way:

Although the conflict between Khartoum and Darfur has dominated the news in recent years, the proximate cause for dissolving the country now is the postponed but still simmering conflict between Mr. Bashir's Islamicist central government and the Christian and animist South. For decades, the South resisted Khartoum's efforts to impose its religious law on the entire country. Then, in 2005, the George W. Bush administration put this conflict on hold through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). While the CPA halted the ongoing genocide against the South, it was only a truce, not a lasting peace. Critical to gaining the South's agreement was the commitment to a referendum in January 2011, when the South could vote whether to remain part of Sudan or become independent.

That referendum is now the main focus. Neutral observers almost unanimously think a free and fair referendum would produce an overwhelming pro-independence vote. Those same observers think Mr. Bashir's government will do almost anything, including resorting to military force, to prevent losing the South and its huge oil and other natural resources.

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Wrenching disagreements within the Obama administration are reinforcing the impression that our president is not willing to confront the Khartoum government. Mr. Obama's "open hand" policy toward rogue states, which has failed so notably with Iran and North Korea, is similarly failing in Sudan. Mr. Obama's special Sudan envoy, retired Air Force Gen. Scott Gration, has essentially cuddled up to Mr. Bashir, hoping he can thereby persuade Khartoum not to use military force. Mr. Obama's meetings with Southern Sudan leaders and others at the United Nations General Assembly's opening have not produced major breakthroughs.

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Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

Obama will do nothing, the left isn’t worried about what is happening in Africa they are worried about the West winning any war. For this reason they will not allow Obama to send any military force to Sudan, this war is one of the flash points for a major war in Africa and the Mid East but Obama is more worried about turning us into a Marxist/socialist nation.

Perfected democrat
Perfected democrat
13 years ago

You mean all that diplomacy still isn’t working? (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QGF5700&show_article=1)

Laura L
Laura L
13 years ago

The world wants to give the underserving terrorist “palestinians” a state and it recognized statehood for the terrorist muslims of Kosovo. Certainly the Christians of southern Sudan ought to be given recognition as an independent state.

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

They deserve a nation and to live in peace, the left hates Christianity since it fought against communism until some of the Churches were co-opted into liberation theology, for this reason the left will do nothing to help the Christians around the world that are being murdered, raped and enslaved by the Moslems.

Xavier823
Xavier823
13 years ago

Interstingly but not unexpected the major mass media in America very rarely prints stories of what is going on in Sudan and how Islam once again is murdering and persecuting Christians. If the this story was the over way around and Christians in Sudan were persecuting Muslims then you would hear and see stories in ever media outlet. Not to mentions Obama would be condemning the Christians and sending aid including miliarty aid to the Muslims.I might also like to add the silence coming out of the Vatican on the whole thing is deafening. Some organization or Christain country if any exist should arm the the Christains in south Sudan.

Lysy
Lysy
13 years ago

One brave soul that Mr. Deng !!! But with ‘friends’ like HUSSEIN Obama who needs enemies !?
I don’t think that US can spare any troops for Southern Sudan but I think that arming the brave Black Christians and giving them a fighting chance isn’t to much to ask ?!Is it ?!

Auntie Izlam
Auntie Izlam
13 years ago

Surely the majority of the world has lost their minds & with that any values or morals, if they ever had them. For those of us who still see and speak the truth it’s like living in an episode of the “Twilight Zone” where the majority are telling the others the opposite of the truth and condemning & berating anyone who won’t agree with their lies. It takes a strong person to stand for & speak their truth why being battered by the liars and thankfully we are many. Now, how do we force the truth on the deluded before we lose everything?
I don’t believe in a devil, but if there was one this is what his works would look like, a large group of people unable & unwilling to see the truth, mesmerized into recognizing lies for the truth, completely deluded by evil. There can be no other explanation and if you look back it all started with one person.

WestwardHo
WestwardHo
13 years ago

For some reason, this sounds to me like a great issue for Congressman Lt Col Alan West to take up.

sujith
sujith
13 years ago

FACT : BUSH SAID “Islam is religion of peace ” Does that make him muslim ?
So Obama is toeing that line, often going overboard to placate islamo fascist
USA has trade ties with Muslim countries, so cannot openly declare
Islam is a political cult.
But within the country you can make a declaration, explaining why
it is not compatible to secular country like USA, to ban sharia, then
logically next step to ban Islam…..and offer muslims 3 non-violent
options
1) Leave Islam (No practice Overt or covert)
2) Leave USA
3) Lose all civilian citizenship rights , no voting right till
they renounce Islam
Its reverse sharia – with muslims treated as dhimmis
————-
This is in line with how spain got rid of islam from cordoba, spain
in 1495 till 1970, there were no muslims , no jihad, no religious
tension.
Are there enough sensible people to push this forward ? You need a man
with guts of steel and love for his country to act in defence of to
protect the freedom and rights of its citizens against tyranny of islamo
fascists.
People of OK showed the way. Get the People to vote and ban sharia
….and islam a year or 2 later.
In democracy law agreed by majority is supreme.

k9gs
k9gs
13 years ago

Oil, Islam, China, and no infrastructure whatsoever to work with=a very bad combination. Logistically it’s a nightmare, and there is really nothing there the US can use or want so nothing is going to happen.

Tom Billesley
Tom Billesley
13 years ago

Obama and Sudan – all carrot and no stick.
Daily Telegraph, Nov 8th 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/8116480/US-may-remove-Sudan-from-terrorism-list.html
The United States may remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as next July, Washington officials have said, provided the government in Khartoum allows a referendum on independence for the south to proceed peacefully and observes the results.

WIde11
WIde11
13 years ago

re Lysy:
“I don’t think that US can spare any troops for Southern Sudan but I think that arming the brave Black Christians and giving them a fighting chance isn’t to much to ask ?!Is it ?!”
One little known aspect of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 is that the US did covertly supply arms to the people of Southern Sudan. It put a stop to the viscous attacks and the Khartoum government turned its attention to Darfur since it was an easier target. Paper agreements are meaningless without substance (weapons) to back them.
Enabling people to defend themselves is much more effective than sending in troops. It is a legitimate, even morally imperative function for relief groups, churches / religious organizations and governments despite the risks.
If the Obama administration looks the other way and allows the slaughter to resume they are party to it. What goes around comes around. Let’s pray for the sake of South Sudan that whatever is coming, comes around soon.

knightemplar2
knightemplar2
13 years ago

Referundum? did you say Referundum?
“As the essential principle of his [Muhammad’s] faith is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated.”
John Quincy Adams
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/07/perfect-man.html

karl anglin
karl anglin
13 years ago

May Simon Deng wake up Capitol Hill!!!!!!!!

Richard 2
Richard 2
13 years ago

No we can’t spare any troops, the left has seen to that, however it should be either Europe’s or Britain’s problem, preferably Britain since they use to run that section of Africa. However their leftist governments are use to taking a ride on the national and world security issue with the US doing the heavy lifting. If they expect the US to do something about Sudan we will need to double the size of our military, something we need anyway if we are to survive the coming decades of trouble.

Winged Hussar 1683
Winged Hussar 1683
13 years ago

The militant “Islamic” Christ Killers are slaughtering Christians in the Sudan, so it is pretty easy to imagine what they would do to Jesus.

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