Ja`gar Numayri: the Sudanese dictator has died

I have to say a word about this lousy Sudanese dictator (and tool of US imperialism) who has just died. He lived on a street in Cairo where all retired or exiled or deposed dictators live, just as there is a street like that in Riyadh. The Egyptian and Saudi governments are inhospitable to refugees but they are generously hospitable toward deposed dictators, like Idi Amin Dada. I went to school with members of the Hamid Ad-Din family (the deposed royal family of North Yemen) and they were receiving payment from the Saudi Embassy in Beirut. Numayri represents the unprincipled dictator: he started his career as a junior officer trying to mimick Libyan dictator, Qadhdhafi, who in turn was trying to mimick Jamal `Abdun-Nasser. Numayri was a huge puppet for Nasser and he fainted several times when Nasser died. There was an opportunity for the overthrow of Numayri early in his career: the Sudanese Communist Party was hell of a party with mass basis of support but the coup attempt was crushed and that began a marragie of dictatorial convenience between Numayri and the US--and the relationship was largely covert as Numayri continued for a few years afterward to pose as an Arab Nationalist farcical incarnation of Nasser. (Read the book by Fu'ad Matar on the crushing of the Sudanese Communist Party). Sometimes in early 1980s, the man was hit with "a religious seizure" as Nasser would mockingly describing King Husayn's occastional bouts of piety. His religious transformation brought about an increasing repression in the South and set the stage for a transformation of Sudanese society. The Sudanese people are fun-loving people who like to eat, drink, and argue. When he was finally deposed, Sudanese masses gathered outside hotels and started to chant: We want beer. We want beer. (Numayri had suddenly banned the sale of liquor in the country). During his rule, and with the encouragement of am ambitious US vice-president (George H.W. Bush), Numayri arranged for the secret relocation of the Flashas (when he was deposed the Sudanese people came out with the musical sounding chant: Al-Falasha Lan Tatalasha (the Falasha [matter] will not disappear--it rhymes so well in Arabic):
الفلاشى لن تتلاشى
We still don't know what Numayri received in return for that covert operation. So on the occasion of his death, I can only say echoing the words of the poet, Khalil Hawi,: "Dig deeper, o grave digger."