By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

 

At least 60 Sudanese Muslims, many of them fasting during the month of Ramadhan, have been killed for no fault in the fierce duels for power raging between the two militaries of the large but impoverished Afro-Arab state.

Conflicting reports are coming from Khartoum where the two adversaries are ferociously attacking each other’s centres and for the moment the mayhem is going on much to the delight of the Americans and the Israelis who got together to deceive Sudan into establishing diplomatic relations with the illegal Zionist entity.

Wherever the Americans and the Zionists set foot internal conflicts start, and mineral-rich Sudan is no exception.

Anyway, it is the people who are suffering. They haven’t had any stability since 1989 when General Omar Hassan al-Bashir ousted in a coup the democratically elected prime minister, Sadeq al-Mahdi, and ruled as a dictator for thirty years until he was toppled in 2019 by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan with tacit support from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Now Burhan, who for the past four years has refused to step down and restore democracy as demanded by the people, is facing a possible ouster by his own deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the heavily-armed Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

According to reports, the violence erupted after weeks of bitter arguments between the two for power sharing of the country their forces jointly control. 

RSF evolved from the ‘Janjaweed’ militia set up by al-Bashir in the 2000s to force into submission the non-Arab Muslims of the Darfur region, which was the target of Christian missionary activities of France and other western regimes. 

It should be recalled that shortly after deserting the anti-imperialist front, Bashir had sent Sudan’s army along with the RSF militia into Yemen to fight alongside the Saudi and UAE forces against the Sana’a-based Ansarullah-led legitimate government.

The two Sudanese armed forces, despite their heavy armaments, suffered huge losses and had to withdraw in disgrace.

It is indeed a pity for the Sudanese people, many of whom are educated and committed to religion and the freedom of their homeland from outside control – whether from the Saudi-UAE coalition or the US-Israeli alliance – to be the victims of the unbridled ambitions of their militaries, whose duty is to safeguard independence and territorial integrity against the plots of enemies, instead of fighting each other for power that does not belong to them and is the prerogative of the democratic forces.

In other words, which of the two militaries win, the loser will be the Sudanese nation.