ACP LEADERS: SHAME ON YOU!

“In a declaration, the Heads of State condemned what they described as the use of unilateral coercive measures such as illegal sanction against certain countries with a view to preventing these countries from the exercise of their right to determine their own political, economic and social system.”

Pure nonsense on bamboo stilts! That puerile statement is one of the most outrageous and self-serving conference communiqués, I have ever come across. It is an insult to the people of Darfur, who are being raped, maimed, terrorized and murdered on a daily basis - with total impunity by the government led by President Omar Bashir and its agents of mass murder: the Janjaweed.

With respect, if the rest of Europe had made such asinine comments during WW2 when Adolf Hitler was busy murdering millions of unfortunate souls (whom he considered inferior beings) as his Nazi troops swept across Europe, where would humankind be today?

Appeasement then did not save those millions whom Hitler's army murdered - and it will not save the people of Darfur and Southern Sudan today, either: and this is appeasement, pure and simple.

President Omar Bashir is carrying out a pogrom, not conducting a mass "love-in", in Darfur - where his military forces and the special-purpose vehicle they have created and armed, the Janjaweed, are engaged in ethnic cleansing, no less: even as those supine ACP leaders make their shameful and self-serving statement.

President Omar Bashir and the criminals, who make up his regime, consider themselves to be superior beings - and look down on those they are trying to wipe off the face of the earth, as sub-human.

For years, the world has sat on its hands and watched as this tragedy against an oppressed African people has unfolded – their only crime being that they are darker-skinned than that racist Omar Bashir: who regards himself as an "Arab", not an African.

That monster, who leads Sudan, regards dark-skinned Africans as inferior beings - and thus can be killed like vermin. He is literally getting away with murder in Darfur. Why should those ACP leaders compound the misery and tragedy of the people of Darfur so callously by making such statements?

If the leaders of the ACP are unwilling or unable to go to the aid of those poor souls in Darfur, let them not add insult to their injury by making such outrageous statements. International conventions demand that President Omar Bashir's regime protects its citizens - not slaughter part of Sudan's population: simply because they are of a darker hue than Omar Bashir and the criminals who make up his regime.

It is just so shameful that black African leaders, who themselves would be at the receiving end of Omar Bashir's evil and sadistic nature, if they lived in Sudan, on account of their dark skins, give succour to this monster: a latter-day Adolf Hitler, no less. Shame on them!