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A Tribute to Ex-President Field Marshal Nemiery

The 5th president of this great nation has bid this world his final salute, the Field Marshal (may god rest his soul) infamously known for his fathomless and undisputed reign as president of this great nation is (and no one may argue) the nation’s unequivocal national symbol, a feared tyrant for most though. Many may breath sighs of relief, but I salute this great man, because no matter how tyrannical his doctrine may seem, it is an honour to have witnessed such a powerful man’s life and to have learnt lessons of such magnitude.

Power, a struggle man seeks during a lifetime but humility and respect lasts an eternity; a life long lesson for all those hoping to overcome the shadows cast upon this dismal nation’s past and present.

Field Marshal Gaafar Nemiery
5th President of the Republic of Sudan
[1 January 1930- 30 May 2009]

At least they’re doing something!!!

Everyone in the world is aware of the air raids and current ground force strikes the Israelite military has been imposing upon Palestine. Well there’s a rumor that Israelite intelligence has been imposing a dosage of psychological warfare behind the scenes through anonymous phone call threats, just to break down the flaming rage and desperation for retaliation among the Palestinians. This rumor (whether true or not) has provoked a retaliation right here in Sudan!

I received several messages from a few friends urging me to call 00970828 followed by any five digits, this is the country and county code for Palestine and hence Gaza. A local radio station, Mango 96.0, seem to be the masterminds behind this scheme. The point to which is to boost the morale of all the victims and to neutralize the effects of the psychological warfare tactics imposed upon them.

However, on the flip-side(and I’d hate to sound cynical here) but this whole proposal seems to benefit the communication companies directly i.e. I smell a scam.

Anyhow scam or not I don’t mind sacrificing a few Sudanese Pounds because, hey! that’s the best I can do for now.

Salam,
SudanEase

The Sudanese Poverty Whirlpool (Intro.)

A rule of thumb in dictatorship; No matter how much power you gain never underestimate a population, so always apply worthy distractions to go along with your power play. When I first came to understand that, it was like swimming from murky to clear water, I could finally see clearer. Sudan has been dazed for so long in this forsaken cycle of poverty that they no longer know they’re actually in it (more accurately they have given into this standard of living).

The economic deficit that Mr. AlSadig Almahdi lead Sudan into proved his government was neither by the people nor for the people, a nation’s wealth circulating among a few close friends and family is indeed the main ingredient of its economic pitfall (a habit that remained with the following government). With the memory of General Nemiery’s impeachment fresh and vivid in the minds of the people, no one would doubt the fact that the climate for a coup was ripe, and by 1989  El Basheer’s regime grasped the opportunity.

Most of you know this story like the back of your hand, but my target is to trace the dents in our economy, and extract the main events in our nation’s unpleasant history in order to wise up  and live up to the full potential of greatness Sudan is vowed to reach. Following this piece will be a series of political, sociological and economical analysis, stay alert for the upcoming entries.

Salam,

SudanEASE

Bush meets ‘Boot’

It was only a matter of time before someone would to try such a stunt. Muntader al-Zaidi, 28, paid a lot for his action in a country Bush claims to uphold the freedom of speech for all. For god’s sake not even during Saddam’s days would someone get his ribs bashed in on international television, some perverted freedom that is!

A broken left arm and broken ribs were a result of the public battery he received not to mention the damage to his groin, he’s one brave and tough guy.

As much pain he’s received, he’s gained much more in fame and fortune, a Saudi millionaire just offered to buy his infamous shoes for only… 10 MILLION DOLLARS! I guess if we really want a solution for the global financial crisis we should just toss more boots at Bush.

Salam,

Sudanease

Below’s the footage for those who missed it or just want to take another peek, cheers!

Bush meets Boot

Media Censorship in the SDN

Revealing the face behind the mask may have some exhilarating, dramatic effect on some fairy tales, but tragedies take a more realistic view at this simple yet complex action. I may seem starting off a bit out of point but I just wanted to stress the fact that the most hazardous business on earth nowadays is unearthing the truth.

Just recently, Aristeo Padrigao, a journalist in the Philippines was murdered in front of his daughter’s school, this heinous act was a work of desperation.

NOTE: Padrigao is only one of 54 journalists murdered in the Philippines since 2001.

Back to the local matter, freedom of speech in Sudan, I can’t help but feel like laughing at this topic. Don’t think I am cynical or anything but one thing I really am is realistic. Let’s just assume that the government does turn a blind eye to the media and actually go through with the freedom of speech act/enactment, did you really forget Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, for god’s sake the man was BEHEADED by a self proclaimed, citizen created radical group, who actually played the role of the judge and punisher.

With that noted i think my point’s clear, Sudan’s a nation motivated by pride and vanity, this leaves us with a highly emotional population non-responsive to logical arguments when it comes to sensitive issues, this is good and bad at the same time. Bad; because journalists have been, are and always will be censored by their own Sudanese senses, its just how we are. Besides that journalists will always have to watch their backs because as long as they remain writing in Sudan they will always remain in a maze of lines waiting to be crossed for a public prosecution to outbreak, demanding for the writer’s head on a stick (and I don’t mean that literally). Owing to the fact that Sudan is one of the world’s most culturally diversified nations, sensitive issues number in the millions.

Just like suits at a tailors, political ideologies are supposed to be set according to the people’s measurement’s.

to be continued…

PS: for those of you who disagree don’t hate me just convince me.

Salam,

Sudanease

BACK IN BUSINESS!

I haven’t given this blog much consideration for a while; however, I shall be dropping topics more than often from now on. Those new to this blog (and those rare few who actually read it before), I can’t make any promises but I can only promise you that I won’t let my emotions cloud the facts (wink wink!).

Salam,

Sudanease

Sudan is a Piñata full of Oil

It has come to my notice the great resembalance between Sudan’s current condition and a pinata. The whole western world keeps bashing the Sudanese goverment and unwillingly torturing the Sudanese citizens with punishments assumed to be for the goverment. The point is the goverment does’nt seem to feel the heat as much as we the citizens do, as far as they are concerned they still keep cashing in their checks and cash from peace treaty to peace treaty and endless made reasons for them to get their payment…

Recently France and Britain have threatened to impose more punishments upon Sudan( as if we lack any punishments) , the concept of these punishments is to force the people to move and do something about their own goverment, (see the irony in that!). So we keep hoping the solution for this goverment could come from the outside, but all the help they could provide us with is to notice that we are the solution.

The people of Sudan have proven to be the most vexatious population to control when unwilling to cooperate, for example lets look at what happened to General Gordon, Lord Kitchener, General Mohammed Gaafar Nimeiry and the list goes on… We have become concerned too much with insignificant issues that we forget to take a look at the big picture and the conditions we are living in.

We are so concerened with digging our enemy’s graves that we can’t even get out of it now, and after all this time we had been unwillingly digging our own graves. So people wake up and work together to get ourselves out of this hole.

Salam,

SudanEase

A Nation under fire and water.

The name is SudanEase, due to my numerous obligations this blog would be updated randomly from time to time. I will try my best to have a regular post per week but I can’t make any promises though.

Well, Sudan has been put in the spot light regarding the Darfur controversy since early 2004 when the issue was first put under the spot light. Since then this nation has been set under international fire triggering a series of political and economical penalties against Sudan in attempt to pressure the Sudanese government into submitting to approve the intervention of UN forces. The Sudanese government’s struggle to forbid the UN forces from interfering with the proclaimed genocide has only placed Sudanese relations with most nations on thin ice, the most recent of which is the neighbouring Chad.

Moving to the present day, this August’s rain season in Sudan this year has turned out to be disastrous to the people of Sudan and the government who have droughted their own resources on several insignificant issues such as the installment of a new currency. With limited resources and standing mostly alone to face this predicament the nation is failing to resist nature at its worst. The government helpless and under heavy criticism were forced to turn a blind eye. Up till now 67,731 houses were wrecked by the rains, of which 31,540 were damaged beyond repair.

People tend to underestimate such matters, let me remind you that the world’s wealthiest nation, USA, required international assistance to cope with the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. There is one question I would like to raise; how long will it take the world to realise how much the people in Sudan are suffering for being the VICTIMS!??