2023-04-18 20:15:37
Four days following the outbreak of the war for power between the two rival generals in Sudan, the toll continues to grow. According to several sources, the bar of two hundred dead has been largely crossed while the wounded number in the thousands. The tragedy is that neither the officer-president, Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, nor his counterpart Mohamed Hamdane Daglo says Here, at the head of the paramilitary forces at the origin of the coup once morest the authorities of the transition, do not want to listen to reason. This means that, for the moment, no clearing, let alone a glimmer of hope of an imminent ceasefire, seems to be emerging on the horizon. And this, despite repeated calls from the international community for an immediate cessation of hostilities. The question is how to get out of the impasse into which the country is inexorably sinking, especially since the protagonists have so far remained hermetically closed to dialogue.
As long as the language of arms lasts, Sudan will continue to count its dead
The question is all the more justified since, to make matters worse, the country’s airport is blocked due to the fighting, and no external emissary is able to set foot in the country to attempt any rapprochement. However, the way things are going, there is no doubt that as long as the language of arms lasts, Sudan will continue to count its dead. But how far will the escalation go and especially the violent clashes which, beyond the many deaths they cause, contribute to making the situation in the country even more chaotic day by day? Very clever who can answer this question. In the meantime, the sad fact is that it is the poor populations, trapped in these fratricidal clashes, who are paying the heaviest price for a war that is totally foreign to them. They are forced, in most cases, to cloister themselves, sometimes lacking everything, at a time when the hospitals are largely overwhelmed by the waves of the wounded. But in the face of this sad spectacle, it is the inability, bordering on the impotence, of the international community to bang its fists on the table to impose the silence of arms on the belligerents, which is most to be deplored. How can it be otherwise when, beyond the official calls for de-escalation, each of the two protagonists continues to benefit underground from external support which appears as so many godfathers potentially ready to play a role in this conflict? Something to recall the Libyan scenario where the hypocrisy of the international community ended up coming out in the open, and led the country into the situation of stalemate that we know. A sharply divided international community not only because of the alignment of rival outside powers behind the belligerents, but also outside powers bent on fanning the fire to pull the chestnuts out of the fire.
With this declared war for power between these two rival generals, the dream of a rapid return to constitutional order is fading.
In the case of Libya, there is no longer any doubt today that the greatest beneficiaries of the situation of neither peace nor war which has persisted in the country of Gaddafi since the physical elimination of the Leader of the Jamahiriya in Libya under the conditions that we know, it is the great powers that have opened up an avenue to continue to plunder the country’s immense oil resources. This is why we must fear the stalemate for Sudan. Especially if the support of powers outside the General here, are proven at the time when it is also said that others are aligned behind General Al-Burhan. Especially also if the conflict is called to continue and tend towards a balance of forces on the ground. In this case, we can even fear a de facto partition of the country if the movement of General Here who controls part of the country, should in fine officially turn into a rebellion. But in this game of rivalries between foreign powers through national actors, it is the Sudanese people who will be the biggest loser in this politico-military crisis which is still far from having revealed all its secrets. In any event, with this declared war for power between these two rival generals, the dream of a rapid return to constitutional order for the Sudanese revolutionaries is fading a little more each day. They who probably believed they had done the most difficult by unbolting Omar Al-Bashir from power, but who find themselves, four years following the fall of the dictator, strongly thwarted in their thirst for democracy by men in fatigues more than ever bulimic for power and visibly determined to preserve it by all means. Poor Sudan!
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