Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's vilified leader, has sworn to crush SPLMA forces that control the Blue Nile. In this operation, Bashir has allegedly continued to use his common strategy of arming tribes and different ethnicities against each other in a genocidal cleansing effort. Putting this in perspective to events in Khartoum however, it seems this double down on the opposition comes from pressures close to home. Hard-line critics are accusing Bashir of failing to prevent a split, as well as his cooperation with the West which was revealed in a Wikileaks cable. On the other side, Sudan's economy is in freefall, and food prices are skyrocketing. If this effort really is an attempt to appease critics and distract the people, will it work? With several other leaders felled by the Arab Spring, could Bashir's head be next on the block?
William Ragan
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48952
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