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| Sudan: Truth will make you free |
| 2023-06-09 |
| Truth will often tell you that's you're downtrodden, oppressed, brutalized, or enslaved. How's that freedom? [SUDANTRIBUNE] Three days of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) resulted in over 200 casualties, hundreds of others maimed and assaulted and extensive destruction of an already collapsed infrastructure. It is time to wake up from the trance that affected everyone post the 2021 coup and face the reality. There is no pro-democracy or pro-transition side among the parties in this conflict. It is a fight between two partners in one crime, the 25 October 2021 coup, over the spoils of their crime. This is a war between two evils who both don’t have the interest of this country in their hearts. Hemetti’s war was inevitable. The RSF is an abnormal appendix to the state’s normal organizational structure. With its independence, military nature, and the ambition of its leader, it posed a continuous existential threat to the state. The 2021 coup exaggerated Hemetiti’s lust for power and pushed his competition with Burhan and the army over control. Later, his engagement in the dysfunctional political process as a natural and independent political actor further fed his ambitions to continue preserving his military and political influence. The recognition of some domestic actors and international sponsors to the process of his irrational demands, as negotiable political stances, such as a decade to resolve the issue of his forces, gave him a growing sense that he could re-position himself as a legitimate political actor both locally and internationally. RSF’s regional and international ties also fed his illusive sense about his legitimacy and the legitimacy of his forces and their equal status with the national army. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 There is a problem with the conclusion. The international community -- that is supposed to step in to save the day -- has found the Sudanese polity (politicians and military) so corrupt no one gives a damn if the country actually goes to hell in a handbasket. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-06-09 10:09 |