Coup De Etat, Fraud, Counterfeited Elections and the Art of Tearing a Nation

Public Choice, Analysis of Collective Decision-Making Journal, Vol. 4, No. 85, May 5, 2011

23 Pages Posted: 3 Apr 2011 Last revised: 19 Jul 2011

See all articles by Issam A.W. Mohamed

Issam A.W. Mohamed

Al-Neelain University - Department of Economics

Date Written: March 31, 2011

Abstract

The current political situation in Sudan has deteriorated with the secession of its Southern part, the Darfur dilemma and the growing public feelings of deprivation, political disparities, elitism that possess the whole country. However, evidence proves that the situation is an accumulation of six decades that passed after the so-called political independence of Sudan. The Sudanese political class had chances that were wasted and signs are that the international society will not allow more of such political chaos, lost opportunities and costs of supporting a nation that was dependant on currently unaffordable handouts. Sudan saw prolonged problems, two civil wars in the South between 1955-1971 and 1984-2005 that killed four million lives and massive economic cost. It became the top country in its internally displaced people. The theory presented here is that Sudan did not form a state during this period (1956-2011). The last state it during modern times saw was during the Christian epoch. However, we point out that such opinion is incomplete because the modern state appeared with the Mahdists of 1884-1899 even with their primitive rule. The feelings of being a nation state were solidified with the British occupation which did not diminish even with the withdrawal of the Egyptians army in 1924. Such feelings were increased with the declaration of independence from within the parliament in 1956. However, it started diminishing with the inception of a series of coup de etat and the military grasping power with short intervals of pretentious democracies. That process per se has frozen the evolution of the Sudanese state then halted it which led to its decaying and death. Eliminations of the basics of the infrastructure and superstructures of the nation, e.g., resulting in institutional chaos, diffusing corruption, destroying constitutional structures, decomposition of the intellectual activities through suffocation and degrading the social movements of their components. Thus, the nation was deprived its legacies which can form a nation. Under military totalitarianism such process continued where governments were cloned without forming roots and basis for a real state in Sudan. That prepared the grounds for strong possibilities of the disintegration and secession of other parts of the country. (And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with the beasts of the earth. The Holy Bible. The Book of Revelation: Chapter 6, Verse 8.)

Keywords: Coup de Etat, Military Regimes, Elitism, Constitutional Corruption, Institutional Demise, Disintergration

JEL Classification: D7, D70, D71, D72, D73, D74, D78, D79

Suggested Citation

Mohamed, Issam A.W., Coup De Etat, Fraud, Counterfeited Elections and the Art of Tearing a Nation (March 31, 2011). Public Choice, Analysis of Collective Decision-Making Journal, Vol. 4, No. 85, May 5, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1800208

Issam A.W. Mohamed (Contact Author)

Al-Neelain University - Department of Economics ( email )

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Khartoum, Khartoum 11111
Sudan
249122548254 (Phone)

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