At Darfur, Sudan

The Sudanese Unforgivable Fault: It Is Not A Normal Civil War

Every pole is fighting for the control, while the ignored medium who viciously pays the price; the Sudanese civil war has been escalated since April 2023, through the brutal struggle for power between the official country’s army and a paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Via this conflict, more than 150,000 people have died as well as 12 million have fled their homes, according to the United Nation — the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Regardless, the common wonder is “how this power-seeking conflict started?” or it is just as many perspectives, Sudan is reaping what it has sowed.

Turbulent war starts

Having succeeded in the exclusion of the unjust long-serving president Omar El Bashir in 2019, the civilians continued to protest for the introduction of the democracy in Sudan. Hence, a joint military-civilian government was established to achieve the democrat Sudanese rights, which quickly led to a coup against it in October 2023.

This coup was staged by two key characters in the current war: Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan –the head of the armed forces and in effect the country’s president– and his deputy, the RSF leader Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as “Hemedti”.

Both campaigned for and disagreed with the same goal: no move towards the civilian rules. Subsequently, a collaborative plan to incorporate 100,000-strong RSF into the army, and who would then lead the new force of Sudan.

Greedily, everyone sought to hang on to the position of powers, unwilling to lose money or control — the turning point for the current crisis happening.

With the first shoot by the Rapid Support Forces, the known cataclysm has begun, as the army detected the RSF threats.

Three years of the continuous violence to the only side who faces the consequences — the Sudanese children and women.

The crises, from the blood pool in Darfur to the rape of women all over the country, are totally hidden.

Recalling past actions

Ironically, it can be considered that Sudan’s past government was who originated the current rebellious in the conflict.

This is because Omar El Bashir recruited the notorious Janjaweed militia –Arab Bedouin armed who fight on horses– to brutally fight the region’s black African, non-Arab population in the early 2000s.

After completing their genocide and ethnic cleansing task, the president not only improved the arming and the control of those Bedouins but also considered them a paramilitary group in the country — the Rapid Support Forces origin.

The major what if

Omar El Bashir had reacted differently with those non-Arab population rather than the aggressive violation.

Written By: Ahmed M. Hamed, STEM MUN UN Documents Committee Coordinator