Sudan Election Boycott, Crowd tells Bashir: 'Your Time is Gone and You Should Leave'

Crowd turns against genocidal leader of Sudan in unprecedented manner.

President Omar Al Bashir is the only head of state indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He is held responsible for mass rape, killings and bombarding of civilians. Courtesy: radiodabanga.org

(DARFUR / PORTLAND) - News of the Sudanese People Liberation Movement's (SPLM) decision to boycott Sudan's elections reverberated across the world Wednesday.

Today many in the opposition parties followed suit, and the reasons given have all simply run the same line; the elections are rigged, all are not represented, and too many promises and peace deals have been a deception.

Darfur began the boycott weeks ago for the very same reason. While speaking of peace, Bashir's government forces simultaneously attacked a village, despite the direct implication it had for the peace talks.

Even while the government was pledging to work “in good faith” with Darfur’s largest rebel group to negotiate peace, Sudan's army had launched a new military offensive in the rebel stronghold of Jebel Marra in Darfur. The fighting left hundreds dead and as many as 100,000 people displaced^[1].

Open Defiance

Darfur's Omar Al-Bashir has been seen campaigning around Sudan in recent months. Sources tell us he was in Kurmuk City today in Blue Nile, campaigning in an SPLM stronghold. The welcome he received was not.

According to sources, Bashir was campaigning with his team, accompanied by his security team. When he arrived to speak, the assembled crowd began to throw rocks and anything else they could find at him and his entourage. He was seen quickly leaving, with some of his people reportedly injured. The crowd shouted, “Your Time is Gone and You Should Leave”.

The people of this region of Blue Nile have suffered profusely over the last 20 years. They have been promised education for their children, hospitals for their sick and infrastructure for their struggling communities.

A witness in Blue Nile told Salem-News.com today, “Standing together, standing up to an individual that has policies that have killed our families; it is difficult. Democracy made him come here. Nobody to speak for your rights that is what happened in Blue Nile.”

This is a changing of the tide. The Sudanese are beginning to fight back and stand for their rights.

An advocate named Martin BuBa said, “Glad SPLM is still in control, to help us sustain and bring stability, what order and what will change”.

^[1] enoughproject.org/blogs/what-happened-darfur