Dan1089 Wrote:On a serious note though,how do we know if something bad happened to one of our members?I keep thinking of sudanese and the dire political situation in his country,boy_toy and his issues and before I discovered that Enigma was banned,I thought maybe he kicked the bucket.How would you know that I'm dead?If I'm not online for a whole week.
i am still alive Dan !
i really appreciate your care
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it is dire indeed ..
imagine to be ruled by a gang which stops a war ( forced to do so ) just to start another one
10th of may , i woke up a little bit late , to clearly hear the sound of mortars , machine guns , and explosives !
3 days before the government had announced that it was expecting Khartoum city to be attacked by one of Darfur rebel groups , most people didn't take it seriously as the Gov. has no credibility and usually announce such attacks to fake an excuse to arrest some civil opponents . plus no one was able to imagine that a poorley equipped militia could cross nearly thousand kms of desert or the same distance of populous other way , an area which is fairly under the control of central gov. and not part of darfur region
the battle continued for about 4 hours .. in Omdurman city at the west bank of the Nile .. they almost controlled that city and then being defeated in the bridge joining Omdurman and Khartoum ..
fortunately they didn't attack civilians , and that neutralized many citizens who would have otherwise been pro- government for racial or security concerns ..
the sad side : after that the gov. persecuted Darfur people living peacefully in Khartoum.. actually many civilians killed , during that governmental idiocy it was just enough that one of the disreputed special security forces suspect u r supporting the rebels ( by ethnicity ) to shoot u in the street !