This series discusses the Darfur issue and poses a crucial question: Is there even a legitimate case for Darfur to be discussed or studied? We mean a case that is rational and convincing in terms of its details and events, allowing for a just judgment. If there are no verifiable facts that can be acknowledged as human actions, no judgment will be issued, and the case will be filed against an unknown perpetrator.
Any issue raised for discussion has aspects that can be debated. Does Darfur have a case that reasonable people can discuss and from which they can emerge with a sound opinion? Or is it a ridiculous reality that doesn't warrant the effort of discussion?
By the end of the first part of this series, the reader will find themselves answering the questions the whole world is waiting to have answered: Is there a case for Darfur and its people worthy of discussion? Does Darfur deserve to be presented as a case for discussion? Or is it more worthwhile to discuss and study the true behavior of the men of Darfur? ...The educated and the ignorant among them!!... Are the educated and the ignorant equal in Darfur?!... If their behavior is crooked, then we must discuss how to correct this absurd and crooked behavior... Or is it more appropriate for the world to hold accountable every one of them who has transgressed, acted arrogantly, and committed crimes?... And to hold them accountable for every person they killed or caused to be killed... For every person they displaced or caused to be displaced... For every house they burned or caused to be burned... For every farm they burned or caused to be burned... For every woman they raped or helped to rape?... Do Darfur and its people have the right to have all of Darfur and all of Sudan destroyed for their sake and for their absurdity?!
And most importantly, this series, at the end of its first part, leaves the esteemed readers to answer the most important question hidden between its lines:
Are there men in Darfur?!... In the true sense of the word!! And if they were found, would any of them truly deserve the title "man"? Would they deserve to have a sticker placed on their foreheads, bearing the inscription "This is a man" and an arrow pointing downwards? Or should the sticker simply describe their past, saying, "He was a man"?
Mu'ayyad Abdul-Khaliq Mahmoud