@RRowleyTucson Interesting Read: #Sudan: The Implications of the Libyan Revolution On the Darfuris Resident in Libya
The Libyan rebels in the city of Benghazi have disclosed from the outset their prejudice against Africans living and working in the Libyan soil by alleging that they were supporting Colonel Muaamar al- Gaddafi's battalions/brigades as mercenaries. The Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) Chairman, Mr. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, stated that was a decision of individuals and does not represents the rebel' formal opinion. Nevertheless, that statement is unlikely to change the rebels' attitudes towards dark-skinned people or those of African origin overnight; given the fact the African Union (AU) has declined to recognize the Libyan revolution and insisted that they will only take down the green flag of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from the roof top of the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa on the surrender of the last soldier belonging to Colonel al-Gaddafi! In the circumstances, many innocent manual working African residents in Libya are going to suffer atrocities. Incitement of hatred orchestrated by the propaganda machine of the Government of Sudan (GoS) against the Sudanese residents in Libya is thought by political observers as the cause of their ongoing tragedy blighting them. Darfuris represent the large proportion of them. This is truer if we take into account the hostile disgraceful attitude of the National Congress Party (NCP) government of Sudan towards the citizens of Sudan from Darfur working in Libya in particular. This hate campaign was spearheaded by the NCP regime's former leader of the infamous Popular Defence Forces (PDF) and current Minister of foreign affairs, Ali Kerti and stirred up by the top spy leader of the notorious the so-called National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), Mohammed Atta who scrambled to Libya for scrounging the Libyan rebel groups to hunt and eliminate the rest of the Darfuris there. A credible source said that dozens of Sudanese in Libya have been affected by the visit of the Sudanese intelligence security services boss Mohmed Atta to Benghazi and Tripoli few weeks ago and confirmed that many Sudanese who came to Sudan through al-Owainat were killed by militias, government forces and security services who been stationed by the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in those places. The conspiracies and plots of the government of the regime in Khartoum against the people from Darfur did not stop but tremendous efforts were exercised by the elements of the regime to drive a wedge between the Libyan rebels and the chairman of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) who has been almost virtually in a house arrest for over a year in Tripoli. According to Sudan Watch that was since Wednesday the 19th May 2010 when the leader of Darfur's most powerful rebel movement was denied entry to Chad, on his way back to join his troops in the battlefield in Darfur. He had been detained on an airplane in the Chadian capital N'djamena. The Chairman of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, at the time, had travelled from Cairo to Tripoli in Libya where he spent a few hours, then from Libya to Chad. The Chadian security forces destroyed the passports of Khalil and his entire entourage. The Chadian authorities removed the ladder from the plane so that Dr. Khalil could not get out. It was reported that the rebel leader himself told the mass media that the Chadian authorities ordered him to return to Libya after 19 -hour diplomatic standoff at the airport. The Libyan authorities accepted to host the JEM leader on conditions including not making any telephone calls! Observers thought that the Chadian authorities, apparently, were trying to put pressure on the JEM delegation to go back to Qatar where the rebel group had suspended its participation in the Doha Darfur peace talks with the government of Sudan.
