GHANA MUST NOT ACCEPT THE AU’S NONSENSICAL EDICTS BLINDLY!

Listening to the BBC African service’s afternoon programme earlier today (2nd July, 2009), I felt like throwing up, when I heard Ghana’s foreign minister’s disgraceful attempt to justify the African Union’s nonsensical insistence, that the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the arrest of President Omar Bashir, be deferred for a year – to enable peace talks in Darfur to go on. Surely, the government of Ghana is not so naïve as to believe that that racist and murderous monster, President Omar Bashir, and the deceitful and cruel regime he leads, are serious about ceasing their campaign of intimidation and ethnic-cleansing, of the non-Arab population of Darfur (and elsewhere in Sudan), and eventually coming to some kind of an accommodation with a people they simply despise, and regard as inferior beings: on account of their darker hues?

Does Ghana’s foreign minister and his colleagues in the current ruling regime in Ghana, not know that if they had had the misfortune of being born in Darfur, all of them would probably have been murdered by now – by the rampaging agents of the murderous Sudanese government, the myrmidon-type-laden militia known as the Janjaweed: on account of their darkish skin colours? Do they think that President Omar Bashir and the deceitful racists, who help him rule Sudan, would ever give their daughters to any of them to marry – despite their many accomplishments as individuals and pre-eminent status in society? Ghana’s foreign policy must be underpinned by moral considerations – which would mean their condemning the Sudanese government for the pogrom it is carrying out in Darfur, for example: and demanding that that crime against humanity ceases henceforth. Our country must always stand up for the oppressed people of Sudan and everywhere else on the continent that African leaders abuse the human rights of their citizens. Nkrumah’s Ghana must not give succour to those who despise the people of Darfur for no other reason than the fact that God made them black Africans.

I have no time for those Africans who say that the ICC is targeting Africans for racist reasons – and that by issuing arrest warrants for murderous tyrants engaged in pogroms in the continent, it is somehow seeking to re-colonize Africa through the backdoor: because it targets Africa’s despotic leaders who are maiming and killing citizens they are legally obliged by international conventions to protect. Have those who make such spurious arguments stopped to ask the women of Darfur, for example, who are being raped on a daily basis, and whose husbands and brothers are being murdered in large numbers by the agents of that cruel and racist regime (led by the indicted war criminal President Omar Bashir), if they think that the ICC‘s arrest warrant for President Omar Bashir amounts to an interference in the internal affairs of the Sudan? Do those who say the ICC is infringing on the sovereignty of Sudan because it has indicted a serving president of that country, think the people of Darfur are in agreement with that absurd notion of sovereignty (which in the 21st century lies in the hands of the citizens of nation-states – not their rulers), and therefore concur with them that the regime orchestrating their extermination ought to be left alone to complete their secret objective of wiping them off the surface of the earth in the time-frame sought for Omar Bashir by the AU? Would those who seek a reprieve for President Omar Bashir go along with such a demand if they were at the receiving end of the unspeakable acts of cruelty and abominable inhumanity going on in Darfur on a daily basis?

The time has come for the government of Ghana to disassociate itself from the AU’s absurd and untenable position on the issue of the ICC’s indictment of President Omar Bashir. They must understand that the leaders of Sudan have an agenda whose sole objective is to use every means, fair or foul, to ensure the continued domination of the Sudanese nation-state, by its so-called ‘Arab’ population – and above all, ensure that the ‘Arabs’ control the oil producing region of Sudan. Who does not know that they are actively planning for the coming war with the southerners: that will be restarted as soon as the southerners vote to become an independent nation? Are they in the meantime not doing all they can to divide the tribes of Southern Sudan: by the divide-and-rule tactic of playing on the old ethnic rivalries that exists between the various tribes of the south, and supplying them with lethal arms to kill each other with: so as to weaken Southern Sudan as a whole, sufficiently, to ensure that they pose no threat to the Arabs of the north achieving their overriding objective of the eternal domination of the Sudanese nation-state? As we speak, are Omar Bashir & Co. not also busy destabilizing Uganda and parts of the DR Congo and Kenya – to ensure that those neighbouring nations have their hands full fighting rebellions in their own territories: so that they do not have the luxury and the resources to help the Southern Sudanese resist the northerners when war finally breaks out?

President Omar Bashir and the murderous regime he leads have a tunnel-vision determination that makes them seek only one thing: time to string the world along long enough to enable them strengthen their position before the inevitable war with the Southern Sudanese breaks out again: when the southerners finally vote to become an independent nation. Manipulating black African leaders (whom they despise secretly despite the bonhomie they show them when they interact with them) through the agency of the spineless AU, is part of their grand strategy of literally getting away with mass murder in the 21st century ICT age – and in what is supposed to be the new positive age of the African Renaissance. Ghana must not dance to the tune of a regime whose members neither respect black Africans nor regard them as their equals. Personally, I despise an African people, who regard themselves as beings superior to their fellow Africans (because they are slightly lighter-hued than most black Africans), and delude themselves into thinking that they are ‘Arabs’ – when they are actually despised by the “real Arabs”: because they in turn are darker hued than Arabs of the Arab world. Nkrumah’s Ghana must always be on the side of the oppressed in Africa and elsewhere in the world that the human rights of ordinary people are abused by their governments. Ghana’s foreign minister must resign if he cannot convince the regime he is such a prominent member of, of the importance of following a foreign policy that is underpinned by morality and common decency. Ghana must not follow nonsensical and amoral edicts from the AU blindly – because we are a thinking and compassionate people. A word to the wise…