Darfur: Blueprint for Genocide - Archipielago Libertad

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movement that started in 1946 and continued to date. Throughout this period the contribution of the Fur tribe was
negligible and was confined to individuals the most prominent of these was the late Elrashid Eltahir Bakur who is
considered to be one of the leaders of the Muslim Brothers movement. He was the secretary general in the 1960s but
was removed after he was implicated in a coup attempt without the approval of the executive office of the movement
and joined the Democratic Unionist Party and later joined the May regime and was appointed Vice President. During
the 1970, other leaders like Engineer Dawood Yahia Bolad, Faroug Mohamed Adam, Dr Idris Abdulmawla and Abdul
Jabbar Adam have also emerged. A number of the tribesmen have also joined the National Front to oppose the rule of
President Numeri and as a result have suffered severe consequences.
As a matter of fact, after the Ingaz revolution, the contribution of the Fur tribe in the Islamic State project was weak and
unclear. With the exception of some individual contributions, there were no tangible group contributions in the large
revolutionary projects such as the popular defence forces, popular police force and so forth.
Lack of interaction of the Fur tribe with the Ingaz ideology may be attributed to a number of reasons including the
following:
1. Lack of trust between the movement and the Fur tribe in particular after successive fallouts between some
members of the Fur tribe and the movement, notably among these are Elrasheed Eltahir Bakur, Faroug Mohamed
Adam, Abdul Jabbar Adam and the rebel Bolad. This is from the part of the movement but from the part of the Fur, they
have always viewed the Islamic movement as taking sides with their enemies. The movement has been behind the
media campaign against Ahmed Ibrahim Direige during the late 1980s. In addition to supporting the Arab tribes at a
time when the tribe was involved in an unbalanced extermination war. As a matter of fact the NIF has refused to grant
permission for a million-people rally to protest against armed banditry and the presence of the Islamic legion in Darfur.
2. Lack of a link between the movement and the Fur with the departure of Bolad, Abdul Gabbar and Faroug. The
other members of the movement from the Fur tribe were not able to fill the vacuum.
3. Dawood Bolad’s military insurgency meant that the Islamic movement has lost one of the most instrumental
members and the tribe has lost one of its most important middle level cadres that could have contributed in bridging the
gap between the two parties.
4. The miscalculations of the leaders and the elites of the tribe towards the revolution as they thought the revolution
would last fro long which has retarded their positive contribution.
5. Failure of the movement to understand the psychology of the Fur and the treatment of interest groups to the Fur
with contempt. In this respect, the movement miscalculated the losses it will accrue from the lack of interaction of the
Fur tribe with the religious legacy. The movement has committed a mistake in attacking Ahmed Direige and continuing
its negative attitudes towards the Fur and the problems they face such as armed banditry and tribal conflicts. The
movement did not benefit from the historic mistake committed by (Abdalla Torshain) who wanted to forcibly Mahdize
the Fur and has imprisoned their leaders and when the colonial army was defeating his army he wanted to go towards
Darfur but Ali Dinar slapped the doors of the West at his face.
6. The successive plights that hit the tribe such as famines, tribal conflicts, armed banditry and regional conflicts
inside Darfur region have made the people of the tribe to become more preoccupied with their personal needs rather
than participation in the public cause.
7. The agenda of Arabism of the Islamic Movement made the movement to view the problems of Darfur from the
angle of Arabism.
The challenges facing the Fur tribe
The Sudan with its Islamic programme has attracted substantial enemies including the super powers. Countries like
Sudan, Iraq and Libya have become the substitute enemy after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. In this new world
order, the Sudan has been condemned to death and as a result, the military confrontations in the South were more
than a war between a government and a rebel movement. It was rather a regional war particularly after a new front in
the East has been opened. The international plan goes in two directions: The first is to attack the Sudan by a
multinational African force in order to divide it up into smaller countries and the second is a military intervention from
the West under the cover of humanitarian relief to achieve the same objective. Such events are moving according to a
rapid scenario before the third millennium. The question is, where is the Fur tribe from these developments?
We have previously mentioned that the weak participation of the Fur in the current projects of the revolution has
adversely affected the Tribe as the tribe has been considered as part of the opposition to the current programme. It is
true that attempts have been made to provide some solutions such as the (Bai’a) and political participation but at the
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