2023-05-16 11:31:00
ASudan, the third largest country on the African continent, will tell the story of how the indifference of soldiers blinded by arrogance can tear a nation apart. It is reported that on April 8, hundreds of people were killed in the violence of local soldiers and paramilitary forces. The armed forces have become bloodthirsty.
The conflict is intensifying here. Many were left homeless. Thousands took to the streets. Many, including Indians, are scrambling for survival, desperate to escape. From street to street the fires of rebellion spread.
At the root of the clashes and bloodshed between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) military and paramilitary factions is the struggle for power. Conflicts between tribes and struggles to seize power have been ravaging the country for years. Reportedly, more than 100,000 people are already living in hell without even a bed in this vile and culpable war waged by the underworld kings and power brokers who have amassed wealth worth crores under the cover of illegal gold mining and mafia connections.
The bayonets of the soldiers who led the mass violence in the Darfur region of Western Sudan have now extended to the civilians in the capital Khartoum, New Nile and other populated areas. 60 percent of the health and treatment centers in the limited facilities of the Red Crescent are reaching out to help the patients. Janina Hospital, a major referral hospital in the capital city, has been forced to close due to overcrowding. Two weeks following the outbreak of civil strife, hundreds of people were killed and tragic scenes were seen in and around Khartoum. About 2,000 refugee camps have sprung up in White Nile State. The flow of refugees to neighboring countries like Chad, Egypt, South Sudan and Saudi Arabia is also intensifying. People are being evacuated to other countries by packing salt sacks on ships and military planes. The Sahara is sadly recorded as the most miserable day in the history of fleeing for life.
Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo popularly known as Hamdati is the main reason behind the current civil strife and subsequent war. Hamdati, a rival of ousted and embattled president Colonel Omar al-Bashir, has his sights set on the leadership of Sudan. Hamdati, who armed the army with the help of underworld kingpins to loot the country, ensured the participation of the paramilitary groups in Sudan in the conflicts in Yemen and Libya earlier and the direct and indirect interventions of the RSF faction for the political destabilization of those countries. Colonel Umar al-Bashir, on the other hand, was not far behind when it came to corruption and human rights violations. It was Omar Bashir who often took the reins of massacres in Darfur and provided meaning and manpower to the paramilitary forces called the RSF. Covert and overt help from the West was also available to the regime of the day and the military forces that supported them.
The Poetic Justice of History
For three decades, Sudan has been oppressed by Field Marshal Omar al-Bashir, who overthrew the democratically elected ruler Sadiq al-Mahdi in a military coup with the support of foreign vested interests. In the poetic justice of history, Omar al-Bashir was ousted in another military coup in April 2019. Sudanese who are convinced of the 33-year rule recorded in his oppressive rule say that the stain of Omar’s iron fists will not wash away even if washed away in the Nile River that borders Sudan. Before Omar al-Bashir and Sadiq Mahdi, there was another leader who tightened his grip on power on the map of modern Sudan – Jafar al-Numeri, who protected Egypt’s Jamal Abdel Nasser and Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi. From there begins the story of Sudan, a country populated by good people. Sudan’s ruling cycle began to be turned by the leaders of the time by carrying out massive massacres in the Darfur region of western Sudan, known as the Nubians. The storm of fury in Darfur has disturbed the sleep of the rulers.
Darfur remains to this day the ultimate depression of the modern world. Every leader who has ever ruled Sudan has been responsible for ethnic repression in the Darfur region, which is almost the size of Spain and has a population of around one billion people. Darfur is still in turmoil. Civilians in Darfur were massacred by a military group called the Janjaweed. Sudan’s leading poetess and human rights activist in Darfur region. The image of Darfur visualized by Halima Basheer in her famous work ‘Tears of the Desert’ is overwhelming. This autobiographical book is a searing picture of her own experiences of violence and rape. The Sudanese army used to loot the villages of Darfur, which were populated by illiterate people, and gang-raped people and raped girls. Halima’s autobiography, published in 2008, exposes the monstrous face of the Sudanese military. The army hunted them down. Halima fled to Britain and now works as a doctor in London. She is absolutely right when she told The Guardian that the most violent face of the Sudanese army in the guise of police is now playing the ghost dance in Sudan.
The muscle of power
In Sudan, the number of supporters of official militias in the civil war is limited, but the immense muscle power of the authorities adds to their strength. The official army is fighting once morest civilians with missiles, Mirage, bombs and drones along with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force. Many died in and around the capital, Khartoum. Hospitals were filled with amputees. Critically injured women, children and the elderly seek out humanitarian aid for emergency treatment.
RSF is a completely violent, undisciplined and illegal militia. But the official class was unable to suppress them and nip the roots of infighting and disintegration at the very beginning. That is what caused the disaster to become so widespread. General Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo is the strongman who ignited the war and mysteriously laughs from the sidelines. This leader of the paramilitary group is leading the massacre by targeting the presidential palace in Khartoum. Sudan’s largest party, the National Ummah Party, has called for an immediate ceasefire. The United Nations Security Council has also been asked to intervene in this matter. Although there has been a small ceasefire in the figurative sense, the fighting is intensifying every day, say Malayalees who have arrived in Jeddah on their way home from Sudan via Port Sudan port.
3,460 Indians have already registered their names at the Indian Embassy in Sudan to return home, said the Indian Ambassador in Khartoum, Tamilnadu B.S. Mubarak told this correspondent. Indians arriving in Jeddah by ship are sent home by Indian Air Force planes. Meanwhile, the body of Albert August, a native of Kannur Alakot, who was shot dead in Sudan, is still in the hospital mortuary in Khartoum, awaiting the arrangement of documents. Albert’s wife Sibella and daughter Marita arrived home the other day via Jeddah. Many Indians who lost their homes, property and jobs shared their grief with the Malayalis in Jeddah. The timely intervention and vigilance of the Saudi government is helping to bring the Indians back safely. It is expected that the remaining Indians will be brought home within the next few days. Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muralidharan camped in Jeddah and led. Malayalee organizations and volunteers in Jeddah are actively involved in helping Indians coming from Sudan.
The remnants of the bloody rebellion that started in the Darfur region in the west and is now spreading throughout Sudan are the cries of countless thousands of people, the graves in unknown lands, the cries of children and the cries of the Amnesty groups.
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