I have great reservation on wasting lives of enthusiastic young men and women in those disconnected, premature and naïve actions.. Already the regime is geared up to desperately fight back, while our physical unity and will are not in place.. Don’t underestimate how our consensus is already exhausted from the revolutionary shakes during the last 50 years..!! If the young generation didn’t find a reliable roadmap and leadership, it will end up in chaos, or they will shift to Rap and Hip Hop lyrics.. All are factually useful instruments for frustration release..!
I argue who claims a revolutionary, a visionary or a politician, to hold it and revisit all scenarios to assure the correctiveness of what they are doing.. I sincerely support any revolution against that regime who wasted and chopped my country into parts.. But I emphasis on brains’ utilization, believing that each soul should never been wasted in vain..
Lately, I had received lots of notes, invitations, briefs and causes against the “Islamist” regime in Khartoum.. I followed the developments of Jan 30th, which ended with a martyr, while its echoes did not travel to some districts with Khartoum itself.. Yes, some int’l TV news had briefly mentioned, while all momentum was already gone to Cairo.. This was the 1st pitfall of the organizers..!
In addition, preparation was not intact, nor enough number of protesters was assured.. (2nd pitfall)
Organizers had relayed on the street-walkers to join, while had scheduled the protest at the peak of the daily earning.. The Egyptian lesson was to schedule a free day, a weekend or a holiday.. (3rd pitfall)
Despite the excellent job of the follow-up-groups, who cared for detainees, injured or dead; it was clear that the same distinct scope and plans were not available for the media group, who could not campaign properly pre or post the event.. (4th pitfall)
Applying the out-dated tactic of energizing fresh activists to demonstrate, while protecting the leadership in the backlines is a dishonest one.. However it indicates how weak, amputated and incompetent the so-called political leadership is.. (5th pitfall)
The level of frustration is reaching the brim and will soon start overflowing, that lava of the anger mounting in the marginalized youth will incinerate all the twisted ways of the regime to extinguish upheavals...
ReplyDeleteAn important question rem...ains, without direction and focus of all these energies (not by the old folks of the traditional political scene of course for they have proven unworthy of their own logos and coats) who will keep reminding the revolution of their goals in a steadfast way and seemingly without trusted substitutes, who will navigate the nation into safety shores afterwards?, something that may not be relevant to all of those who have been sickened by long years of strife, they have nothing to lose even if at the cost of ushering the remnants of this country into a dark tunnel...
Hisham Ed-Dai
And I totally agree with you!!! They lost touch and got more imbibed into self-contained reveries and dubbed us ignorant young'uns
ReplyDeleteHisham Ed-Dai
I'm sorry, but surprised..!
ReplyDeleteShould those ignorant young'uns call for something fresh, united, honost, young and target 3 years ahead..??
If their energy was streamlined into that then no doubt they could. I am afraid that there is an entire generation wasted except for the lucky ones among us, but it is about time that change came...
ReplyDeleteHisham Ed-Dai
Dear all, based on the notion that large change is to come as a product of accumulation of minor changes that play underneath the surface ,I believe without major intervention change should happen to us as well at some stage . However ,at... this stage in Sudan the lack of instant change can be explained by different factors :
ReplyDelete1/ One is the brutality of our dictatorship which makes it different to other regimes like in Tunis and Egypt .This brutality and resistance to change comes from the very nature of the ideological foundation of the regime in Sudan,by that I mean the Islamist.This fact is very important when it comes to opposition people face by the regime when they demand change .This regime has implanted into the minds of many fanatics in Khartoum that what they are doing is divine and religiously justifiable .So when in Egypt and Tunis you are faced with regular security and police forces ,In Sudan you have religious militia and different security forces informed by the presumed Jihadist, righteousness and holy war against the others who don't want the words of God to prevail (imagine then the fierceness of their reactions).
2/ We lack the highly educated and technology savy middle class ,who are aware of the universal values of democracy , freedom of speech and global thinking (contrary to the Egyptian and Tunisian Youth who proved to be of high standard of thinking ).In this day and age this young generation is the driving force for change ,not the conservative ,feudal or the aging nationalist and leftist political legacy now exist and struggle to take a breath.
3/ Leadership of the Sudanese political parties is composed of over 70, outdated and out of touch individuals who still view the world from 1960s perspectives ,This does not appeal to a country with more than 40% of the population is below 20 years of age .
4/ This country is undergone systematic and planned destruction of its intellectual asset- poor education ,poor moral and emotional guidance and a decline into the values of the middle ages with all the superstitions and non-scientific evaluation of reality- in plain world we become a primitive nation that live in and believe any non-sense.
Elfatih A.Abdeldaim
This should be comment # 2
ReplyDeleteDear Hisham; I do value, understand and feel the agony ignited within your own consciousness.. I do share the impulse, yet unable to step down in the street.. However, as freshly learned from both Tunisia and Egypt.. If the older generation is truly faithful, with no ego or selfishness, should they understand and pursue these 5 principles:
1. They should admit that after failed 50 years of political efforts, there is something seriously wrong in their conceptual, philosophical and strategic mind-set.. There is no further time to correct, just step down..!!
2. It is not their call anymore to deliver the change, they have great factual gap with the young generations, who fuel, deliver and live pre and post the proposed uprising.. It is not their game anymore..!!
3. They should help those youngsters to discover and polish their own leadership; whom will grow and develop in the streets rather than comfortable hotel rooms or the nicely eloquent speeches..!!
4. They should help the young activists to understand the dynamics of true politics along with all lessons extracted from the nation’s history, culture and intellectual treasures.. They are no more guardians but transporters and/or translators..!!
5. Finally, They should help those enthusiastic youth to build up their own local, regional and int’l lobbies, as in today’s world, no one would deliver it, maintain it and/or sustain it… alone..!
Regretfully, I should be honest to express my own hesitation that any 40+ politician would do the above.. !!!!!