Speech by Field Marshal Omar Al-Bashir, President of the Sudan
El Fasher 8 March 2009
All Praise goes to Allah. Peace and blessings be upon our honorable prophet. We say our prayers loud and clear, as it brings out their rage, anger and wrath – this is what we wish for them.
My countrymen, they are angry at us for we are committed to Allah and his prophet. They say it’s the end of the world and claim to be masters-at-large of the universe. However, we in the Sudan say it loud and clear: There is no god but Allah the only master of the universe and there no others. This is why they are so angry at us. They claim to be the masters of the universe, but we say that there is a master of this universe and we worship Allah. A worshiper of Allah will not be a slave of other humans. No human should be the master of any other human, because Allah is the only master of all, including non-believers.
First of all, we have rejected; and I swear to god that we will continue to reject bowing down for these people, because we only bow to Allah. We don’t ask them, but we ask Allah. They don’t like this talk, as they know that we are leading a movement of rebellion against international injustice, the new world order and the neo-colonialism.
We were the ones who liberated Africa and supported the African freedom movements, drove out the colonizers from Africa, and thus, we will not accept colonialism to return again to the Sudan.
Those behind the ICC are the real criminals of killings. They killed the Red Indians in the millions – do they have any right to accuse anyone with ethnic cleansing? Are those who committed ethnic cleansing against the Red Indians talking about genocide? Those who transported millions and millions of our African people as slaves, throwing into the sea anyone who had a headache or fever, as well as throwing into the sea half the people on the ship just because the drinking water was not enough. They brought them as slaves to build their economy and their strength. Well, that strength is ours, because its source is our people and their economy is ours and built by our people.
Up until a few years ago, we were witnesses to signs at their stores that dogs and niggers are not allowed to enter – who is a dog? Allah is in control of the universe. Today, there is a black president of the United States. Niggers were afraid to enter restaurants and today he is the master of the White House. It was not just him and his children who entered the White House, but his dog went into the White House with him too.
Those who bombed the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with an atomic bomb and eliminated every form of life, killing men and women, children and the elderly are now talking about a genocide… is not what they did a genocide…?
How about those who marched their armies to Vietnam? Vietnam is not a US state!! They went there as occupier, killing the people and their forests with the internationally-banned Napalm – isn’t this a crime?
Those who lied to the whole world, as Bush lied to his people. He lied to his own people and the whole world while talking about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, rendering 5 million Iraqis as homeless and hungry as their property, oil and money were being looted, leading to turmoil. Isn’t this a crime? Where is this international justice they are talking about?
A few days ago, we were witnesses to the crime of our time. Israel was killing unarmed citizens in Gaza. We saw how their children were being killed with illegal weapons, as we saw the women. We saw houses being demolished while its inhabitants were inside. The whole world witnessed this crime. When asked “why don’t you pursue Israel to the ICC,” their answer was that Israel was not party to the Rome Statute. Well, neither are we a party to the Rome Statute, because they are a group of hypocrite and liars.
From El-Fasher, I say to them, all of them, the ICC prosecutor and members and each one that stood by the court: you are under my shoes, (these shoes, pointing to his shoes) and I challenge them and I challenge whoever comes here in the midst of our folks, our folks of the Fur, the Zaghawa and the Masaleet, and I guarantee them no soldier will ask them, no policeman will ask them, no government official will ask them….. we will let them meet the citizens and see the reactions of the citizens and see the hospitality with which the citizens will address them. These people are talented (with sarcasm) in saying that when this decision comes up the Sudanese people will shiver and the Sudanese people will become fearful but these people don’t know … it seems they still don’t know us and in order for them to know us we invite them to come to us. We tell them come, try, read the history, where is the campaign of Hecks Pasha….. they buried it in the sands of Kordofan… where is Gordon Pasha, we slaughtered them in the presidential palace… we tell them that we in Sudan still remember your crimes…. Your crime in Karri…..when you showed up you killed the wounded … you killed the wounded…. And we gave 18,000 martyrs in one hour and a half….
Those criminals, the real criminals that sent their armies and colonized the world and robbed their treasures and resources and killed their men and enslaved their children these people have no right to talk about international justice, cause the real criminal is Bush and the real criminal is Olmert and the criminals are the leaders of the western states…… these are the criminals witnessed by the whole world and we tell them in a message from here in the Sudan, from Fasher Al-Sultan to all liberals of the world….. of the third world in Africa, in Asia in Latin America, we tell them that we in Sudan got freed and we do not kneel neither to a colonizer, nor to an agent. Our message here is for all the honorable, the people that have stood by Sudan, who know that the real criminal is Israel… the real criminal is whoever supported Israel and Bush, hit Iraq and hit Afghanistan and killed the innocent in every place.
When we expelled some organizations, we expelled the agent organizations, the spies, those who aggressed against the security of the nation, the people that have betrayed the covenant, because any organization that exists here among us, we had an agreement with it. And it had a certain mission to carry out. We welcomed them and opened our gates until 118 organizations came to us, but some of them took advantage and brought spies to us. Any person that respects himself, resides with us … should above all respect himself and whoever that roams around without snatching this and that, not interfering into matters that are not of his concern and not committing any act that violates the security and safety of the nation, this person we will carry over our heads (respect). But the one who tries to play around with us we will not tolerate him, whether it is an NGO or envoy or a diplomatic mission or even security forces. Every person should know his limits, his position and act within that position….. they spoke to us about expelling organizations…. We have made our thorough calculations, and found that the organizations receive 2bn dollars per year to spend in Darfur, and we found that what is received in Darfur is less than 100 million dollars … so we ask those who beg in the name of Darfur, trade in the name of the people of Darfur, trade on behalf of the crisis of Darfur and accumulate illegal wealth in the name of Darfur.. we tell them “why”? We will not tolerate you anymore and you will not stay here and we are ready to fill the gap of 100 million dollars, from our own pockets, from our clean and honest money. We are the ones responsible for our own people.
Those IDPs came to Fasher, Geneina, Nyala and Zalengei. Was the UN here when they came? Were the Organizations, AU, UNAMID here when they came? Who received them? Isn’t it that their own families and their folks received them? The government received them, sheltered them and spent on them and today we are ready to continue to do that, because they are our people. There is no one else more loving to them than us and more responsible for them than us. We have enough bread and we do not need the imported rations that they receive.
Our message is that we will respect who respects himself among us, but those who play around, left and right, can only blame themselves. I mean those who think they frighten us and want to bargain with us…….. In the beginning, they asked us to handover Ahmad Haroun and wanted to bargain….. they asked us to give them Ahmed Haroun and we said no…. they asked that we dismiss him and we said no. They said Ahmad Haroun should resign, I said there will be neither a resignation nor a deposition because we are free in our country and we do not accept the dictation of others. At the end they told us, if you depose Ahmad Haroun, we will pardon the president … now they say, if you keep the organizations, we will freeze the decision. We are against the freezing…. Either they annul the decision or we tell them to suck it and drink it (eat your decision) … we never went to seek the help of anyone because we are God seekers and we read the Book of God and we are the people of the Koran…. The people of Darfur are the people of the Koran. The people of the ink and board, people of perseverance who read the word of god, (he recites a Koranic verse).
We know that when we announced the State of the Sharia (religious law) and that we would implement Sharia and that we would be more committed to the implementation of Sharia…. We knew that it would be a path of defeats and hardship, because, God assigned his messengers into this hard path and these messengers are better than any of us (religious references). Those people told us that they will put us under embargo and that they will boycott us economically…. But we are already in siege in the Sudan since 1983 and from 1984, when Numeiri announced the Sharia, they announced their boycott of the Sudan and Sudan stayed under embargo. And after we came (the Salvation Front), they hardened the embargo. How many universities where there before the Salvation (front)? How many universities do we have today? How many hospitals were there before the Salvation/ and how many hospitals do we have now? How many water points and stations were there before Salvation and how many we have today? How were our roads before Salvation? And how many roads we have today? How were our factories before Salvation and how are they today? How were our communications before Salvation, and how are they today? Where was our oil before Salvation? And where is our oil today? This is our response to them; because this is the response that hurts them. They are angry because we are God seekers …. We are investing in development and they are angry …. On 3/3/2009, the response was the Dam (Marawe) and tonight the response is with the Western Salvation Road and the ring road and the road of El-Foula-El-Dubaibat; the electric power reached al-Ubayedh and from Al-Obayedh it will reach Al Nuhud National Network. From AL Nuhud to el-Fasher and Nyala until it reaches El-Geneina. Our response to them is by new building Dams and we will build the railroad and you heard the speech of our brother, the Minister of Transport who told you the railroad will come to el-Fasher…… that’s what we have done, because we are clever people, because we have relied on God. How do you think we have realized our fortunes and how did we make sure that these fortunes are available? God told us so (Koranic verse) one more thing, is there anybody in doubt? Is there anybody in fear? Is there anybody in need?..... we believe that fortunes are from God and that’s why we tell them: eat your Dollars. They said we want you to change this government…. How? …. They told us they were people of democracy and that they were after democracy, we said welcome to democracy and we will conduct elections this year and have the Sudanese people have their say. They will decide who will be their president? It is not something to be decided by America, Britain, UN or anyone else. Because they are liars … They are afraid of democracy that will bring al-Bashir again. We tell them, it is not democracy or anything else that changes governments, because God gives authority according to his will and takes authority from whomever he wishes (Koranic verse). And they said…. We know who they are…. The organizations that we have expelled…. They want to give them money to run elections…. But if we have faith that power is from God and in the hand of God…. What then…. They will kill us? Is there a person who will die before his day…. Lives are in the hands of God…. whom are we afraid of…. Moreover, as long as the human being will die (some religious and traditional references about how someone could be just seen here and there and dies suddenly and how death is a nice ending).
We are a great nation of magnanimity and generosity that will never accept injustice or humiliation. We are the hospitable nation … we are the nation that saves the weak. Our response to those people (the west) is by our unity and we tell our armed sons that the question is not about development, because development is ongoing…. The question is not about your requests, because your requests will be well satisfied, but the question is a question of a nation, and of people who want to loot this nation. People that want our oil and our minerals and our wealth and we know those people and that they will keep against us …. We tell all those with weapons and all those who had misled them and that have sold their country for a bunch of Dinars, not even with few Dollars… we tell them: this country is more precious than to be sold by Dinar … and more precious than to be sold for anything on this earth….. this is our country that we have irrigated with our blood. We watered it with our blood… the blood of our martyrs that are buried in this soil… this soil is dear to us… a giving soil that would never be sold for dollars…… that is why I want you, the people of Darfur, to join ranks, reconcile, because the people of Darfur are people of wisdom, people of great values and traditions who are able and willing to solve their problems, who do not need anybody to show them how … because you teach the world and you teach the universe how problems are solved and how conflicts are solved….. you should know that the Darfur laws about conflict are being taught in the finest American university, Harvard. They teach there the laws and traditions of Darfur…. Do you need someone to come and solve your problem? You solve your own problems. Unify your ranks and be ready… the world will not leave us, but we need them to come here to show them what we had showed them long time ago during the times of the Mahdi Revolution, followed by the uprisings in Dafur and in the east and in the west and the south… we are the grandchildren of the martyrs… we do not fear death or martyrdom, because we have our brothers who have advanced our march, brothers like al-Zubair and Ibrahim and all the martyrs that led us… we want to join them and we want to be with them, because we long very much for them.
Allah is great. No god by Allah.
