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14 hours ago Shawqi Badri 191 visits Shawqi Badri The atrocities committed in the Battle of Solferino in 1859 were the worst and largest in human history. More than 400,000 soldiers participated, equipped with the latest weapons and equipment, and an incalculable amount of hatred and cruelty. The world was convinced at that time that these atrocities would not be repeated. Rescue with both ends from the cobs and the Janjaweed proved the opposite. All laws and decisions taken to protect humans were trampled upon by the Inqaz and Janjaweed. Both sides are enemies of humanity… Blessed are the people of Sudan. Dunant published a book commemorating Solferino. Because the book was a great success, a committee of five people was formed in 1863, and its president was General DUFOURGUSTAVE MOYNIER, Henry Dunant as secretary, and Dr. LOUIS APPIA and Dr. THEODORE MAUNOIR. It was decided to form unions in all the countries in days of peace and train volunteers to provide aid and prepare stores for aid and first aid. In order for the volunteers to be accepted by the warriors and so that the doctors and ambulances would not be exposed, Dunant proposed a slogan representing neutrality. It was not easy to accept all of Dunant’s ideas, and even the committee found it difficult to imagine Dunant’s requests to legislate global laws regulating war. But Dunant’s enthusiasm and insistence led to the conference of October 26, 1863, to which all European heads of state were called. Despite the hesitation and lack of confidence of the other members in success, Dunant traveled to most European capitals and his trip was successful. On October 26, 1863, the World Conference was opened, which included fourteen delegations, most of whom were elderly officers. Everyone agreed that aid during war does not reach the sick and wounded, and that the existence of an organization that guarantees these services is very important. The conference that followed the first conference was the Paris Conference in 1867. Dunant was struggling to realize his ideas for protecting wounded prisoners of war or shipwrecked sailors and protecting civilians. Many years passed before Dunant’s wish was fulfilled. In the year 1866, war broke out between Prussia and Austria. Austria had not participated in the Geneva Convention, and it was clear from the beginning that aid to the wounded on the Austrian front was poor, unlike the Prussian side. There were many Red Cross organizations and highly trained groups, which made the difference between the two fronts clear. Before the war ended, Austria had signed the Geneva Pact. When Russia celebrated its victory in Berlin, Dunant was an honored guest because the Empress AUGUSTA was, as she said in the book’s grip, a memory of Solvino to the point that, despite cholera, she went herself to battles to help the wounded. In order to demonstrate her feeling of gratitude to Dunant, she carried the Red Cross emblem on her sleeve. This was the happiest occasion for Dunant because it was the culmination of his efforts. But while Dunant was trying to improve the condition of others, the soldiers, and the wounded, he neglected his business projects and no longer interested him. His projects in Algeria collapsed, and the Credit Bank, which Dunant was responsible for managing, went bankrupt. Suddenly, the millionaire Dunant became destitute and required to pay a debt representing one million Swiss francs. It was a huge fortune at that time and he did not care. After that, Dunant became extremely poor and spent long nights sleeping on sofas in public parks or at railway stations, his stomach howling from hunger and his clothes becoming so shabby that when the Empress Eugene summoned him to prepare a project to accommodate the naval fleet in the Geneva Convention – he had to dye his legs with ink to cover the holes in his stockings. Then war broke out in 1870 between France and Germany. Once again, Dunant appeared in the spotlight. In August 1870, he wrote to Empress Aquinnah and suggested that some cities should be given neutral status so that the wounded could be sent to them. This proposal did not come to fruition at the time, but it was implemented later. Dunant also participated with feverish enthusiasm in the process of transporting the wounded and dead. Although Dunant was risking his life for the weak and wounded, he was the subject of suspicion and lack of understanding from many. Who is he, who does he work for, and why is he risking his life? Is he a spy? Is he one of the internationalists that all the rulers in the world were chasing? ? It is very easy to confuse the word “international,” which refers to the international organization calling for internationalism, and the international organization represented by the Red Cross, and how can the police differentiate? Once again, Dunant disappears into a world of poverty and oblivion, shaken by the cruelty of the wars he witnessed, but filled with great feelings and wonderful plans to bring peace to the land. He proposes a world governed by global laws and an international court that can resolve the world’s disputes. He proposes a global library and the protection of prisoners of war. Dunant began his struggle for prisoners of war in the year 1863 and did not stop despite all the difficulties and obstacles. In conferences and diplomatic meetings in which he demanded the protection of prisoners of war, he would stop speaking in order to rest a little because of his weakness resulting from hunger. Laws protecting prisoners of war were not enacted until the year 1929, and now when criminals are brought to trial, as happened in Nuremberg or Bosnia and Rwanda, this is because of Dunant. On February 1, 1875, the World Conference was held in London, which was known as the International Solidarity Conference on Law and Civil Affairs, which Dunant called for. Its purpose was the complete prohibition of the slave trade. This is the conference that prohibited the slave trade, and we in Sudan have touched upon it. The ideas that Dunant was calling for under the slogan of prohibiting the slave trade and the sale of Negroes, helped mobilize American public opinion after the American Civil War, liberate Negroes in America, and find a homeland for them in Africa, which is Iberia in the west. Africa. The conference to outlaw slavery also forced the abstaining countries, led by the Netherlands, to outlaw slavery completely. The conference put pressure on Türkiye, which made slavery forbidden in Egypt, which is the first market for Sudanese slaves. Sudan stopped exporting its most precious wealth, which is its children. Let us go through some of the book’s paragraphs together, and Dunant says: The sun rose on June 25, 1859, on the most hideous scene imaginable. The corpses of men and horses were scattered on the battlefield, on the roads, in the trenches, in the dry river valleys, and on the bushes and brush. Especially around the village of Solferino. The fields were destroyed, the crops were crushed, the trellises collapsed, and the fruit trees were destroyed. Here and there pools of blood appeared. The villages were abandoned after their walls were filled with bullets, bombs, and shrapnel. The walls of the houses began to open like wounds that opened their mouths in the form of large holes, ruining the fields. As for the residents, most of them had disappeared into the basement of the house for twenty hours without lighting or eating, and they began to emerge from their basement, their eyes reflecting the panic and horror they had experienced, and the ground was covered with all kinds of shattered waste, including weapons, clothes, and contaminated belongings. With blood. And the unfortunate wounded who are the harvest of that day are covered by the pallor of the voice. They became worth nothing. Those who were seriously injured had blind eyes that did not understand what was being said to them, focusing ferocious looks on the one they expected to have come to their aid. Others had gaping wounds that had begun to inflame, screaming like madmen in pain and demanding the coup de grâce and with shrunken faces and bodies writhing in pain, they took their last breaths. Now there is a scene that calls for regret. There is water and there is food, and despite this, the wounded die of hunger and thirst. There are bandages, bandages in abundance, but there are not enough hands to put these bandages on the wounds. Many doctors were in the town of Karviana, and there was a shortage of nurses. At that critical moment, there were not enough hands. It was necessary to organize the volunteers, and this was not easy in that confusing situation. There was turmoil among the population, which affected the condition of the wounded, and the state of chaos and disorder was due to simple reasons that could be overcome. The Austrian imperial army was composed of two hundred and fifty thousand men, equipped with four hundred cannons, and the French army was composed of one hundred and seventy thousand men, equipped with five hundred cannons. I was an ordinary tourist outside that The great battle in which more than three hundred thousand men participated. The battlefield extended for more than twenty kilometers and lasted for fifteen hours. In that horrific battle that began at dawn, the Austrian army had marched all night and fought on a very hot day. They had not tasted food all day except some cognac. The French army had also been on the move before dawn and had not received any food except some coffee in the morning. Therefore, the wounded were in a bad condition and from all sides signals of the attack were sent by Trumpets or drums, and at six in the morning, the war was in full swing. The Austrians were on the heights, and the French who rushed towards them faced a heavy rain of bombs and bullets. The smoke of machine guns and cannons mixed with the dust scattered by bombs and shrapnel, and in the face of this death-spitting fire, the French rushed from the plains and threw themselves towards the positions they had decided to occupy. In that heat and drought, the battle began to proceed in a more violent manner, with massive hordes of men. She throws herself into battle without hesitation. The French legions are firing intensely at the Austrians, who are renewing with more forces, and as the heat of the war increases, new forces rush in like walls of steel, throwing their belongings until they easily rush towards the enemy with their bayonets open in the face of the enemy. As soon as a band collapses, a new band takes its place at the same moment. The fighting becomes more brutal and fierce, and the grooves are filled with corpses. In one of the sites, the fighting becomes man against man. The Austrians and the Allies trample each other, skulls are shattered by rifle butts, and intestines are scattered by the blows of swords and rifle bayonets, and there is no room for mercy or forgiveness. It is a massacre among wild animals, and the wounded defend themselves to the last breath. In another place, the cavalry rushes into battle, and under the horseshoes covered with iron, the bodies of the dead and wounded are crushed. One of the wounded had his jaw shattered, another had his skull shattered, and a third was saved at the last moment after his ribs were shattered. The roar of the horses is mixed with screams, cries, and cries of anger, pain, and loss. Far away in another place, the cavalry of the allied forces rush with incredible speed and make their way over the wounded who are lying on the ground, and the wounded pour out onto the ground, crushing and tearing off the feet and hands, and the corpses are kneaded until they become unrecognizable. The ground is literally soaked with blood and the plain is covered with human remains and debris. French soldiers climb the heights to attack the Austrians amidst a torrent of bullets, and once they reach the top, covered in sweat and torn with fatigue, they rush again to another height. The battles continue at the bottom of the canyons. The Austrians’ positions were ideal. They were holed up behind buildings and churches in Medoli, Solferino and Cavriana, but there was nothing to stop the bombing and bloodbaths. The men were killing and being killed. Every lowland is exposed to a stormy attack with open bayonets, and men fight for every foot of land, and villages are seized house by house, farm and farm, and on the doorstep of every house and behind every window the brutal fighting continues. Long-range French machine guns cause a frightening disturbance among the Austrian forces. The slopes are covered with corpses, and even the German reserve army is in ruins. The Austrians lose their positions, but inch by inch, then they attack and reap, then they are forced to retreat. There, in the plain, the wind picks up the dirt and dust and creates dense clouds of them that weigh down the air and blind the warriors. The Austrian reserve forces rush to fill the vacuum and they rush in bravely, and from all sides the sound of drums and trumpets rises, calling for a sweeping attack. The guards show unparalleled courage. The snipers working behind enemy lines rival the front soldiers in courage and valor, and the Zouaves (mountain dwellers from Algeria) rush forward with their rifle bayonets open, jumping like wild animals and causing massive damage. The French horsemen rush to meet the Aulani and the Hussar in order to impale and cut each other’s bodies. The horses get excited due to the fighting, and they collide with the enemy’s horses forcefully and bite the other horses, while their knights slaughter each other with swords. Due to the intense thirst for blood, the fighting continues even after the ammunition runs out and the guns are destroyed. Men kill each other with stones and even with their bare hands. The Croats kill anything in their path and finish off the wounded allies by crushing their skulls with the butts of their rifles. In the same way the Algerians treat the wounded Austrians and do not distinguish between soldiers or commanders. Despite their officers’ attempts to restrain them, they rush like wild animals towards the enemy. Today I remember the peoples of Sudan, the wars in the south, Darfur and the mountains. Nubia Blue Nile. And I cry for my country? Shall we continue? S. Shawqi shawgibadri@hotmail.com See also: Shawqi Badri When the British left, they advised the people of the emirates, which were formed at the beginning of the seventies, to use…
