Warning: Leave the Ranks of the Militia Before It Is Too Late

Dr Hassan Mohamed Saleh
The coming days are likely to witness an unprecedented wave of surrenders and defections from the militia in this war, which Sudan’s enemies, both at home and abroad, unleashed against its people.
Our sources say that more than 600 rebels are on their way to return to the embrace of their homeland and surrender to the Sudanese Armed Forces, bringing with them their full equipment, including weapons, ammunition and vehicles, all at once. These numbers fall within the area of responsibility of a single Armed Forces commander. This is in addition to the large numbers who recently defected from the Justice and Equality Movement faction led by the rebel Suleiman Sandal Haggar and rejoined the parent Justice and Equality Movement.
Security and intelligence agencies have informed native administrations and tribal leaders that the opportunities currently available under the general amnesty for their sons to return from fighting alongside the rebellion may not remain available in the same form as they were before vast areas of the states of Kordofan were liberated and the advance towards Darfur began.
Our sources say that the general amnesty issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces for everyone who took up arms and fought alongside the rebel militia may not apply to those who continue fighting with the militia until the very last moment. The “door of repentance” will not remain open to those who die as unbelievers, nor to Pharaoh, Haman and their soldiers.
Pharaoh said as he was drowning: “I believe in that in which the Children of Israel have believed, and I am of those who submit.” But he was told: “Now? When you had disobeyed before and were of the corrupters? Today We will save your body so that you may be a sign for those after you.”
This is Pharaoh’s fate as set out in the Holy Qur’an. Those who remain with the rebellion to this day should take heed — as should those who have renewed their activities after a period of inactivity, and those who have recently pledged allegiance to the leader of the rebel militia. The competent authorities are surveilling and monitoring them. They will gain nothing from the feeble justification that their presence in the rebel ranks is meant to protect their families or tribes.
They are in the wrong place. Protecting one’s family means defending them within the ranks of the Armed Forces, not supporting a rebel militia that operates outside the law and violates the land, people’s honour, property and human dignity.
Against the backdrop of the resignation of Mr Hamad Mohamed Hamid, the governor of the Kordofan Region under the Tasis government, from his post, and his denunciation of rebellion against the state following the liberation of Jabra Al-Sheikh in North Kordofan — and in light of the serious violations committed by the militia against the people of Jabra Al-Sheikh, including the conversion of the Jabra Al-Sheikh hospital into a military barracks — we commend Mr Hamad for this patriotic spirit.
We call upon him to initiate an international and humanitarian investigation no less rigorous than the investigations into the events in Geneina, West Darfur, so that our people in North Kordofan may have their full and undiminished rights restored from this terrorist militia.
Some voices within the Dagalo family militia and the rebellious QahT groups — all of them discordant voices, like vultures and owls — have sought to portray the humane treatment of captured rebels by the Joint Force of the Armed Struggle Movements as a racist and regional act, claiming that both sides — the Janjaweed and the Joint Force — are sons of Darfur.
They have coupled this claim with calls for Darfur to secede and be governed by the people of Darfur.
Does this mean that everyone should now join and support Tasis and Rapid Support Forces after previously defending the homeland within the ranks of the Armed Forces?
This is precisely the militia’s error and distortion, which it has repeatedly committed as part of a campaign of “disinformation” and the killing of truth at its source.
It demonstrates the nature of the crimes committed by the militia and its allies among the misguided forces of political secularism. The militia and its supporters have repeatedly killed civilians with weapons and deprived them of water, medicine and food in El Fasher, El Obeid, Geneina and Khartoum. Humane treatment and kindness towards captured combatants are neither their nature nor their character.
Such treatment, by contrast, is rooted in Islamic teachings. Almighty God says:
“And they give food, despite their love for it, to the needy, the orphan and the captive. [Saying], ‘We only feed you for the countenance of Allah; we wish not from you reward or thanks.’”
We have heard members of the Joint Force saying: “The food we give the prisoners is food we ourselves cannot afford to eat.”
What the Joint Force and the Armed Forces are doing for captured rebels — who were misled into joining the rebellion — is a humanitarian duty. Yet the rebel militia has, to this day, issued neither a statement nor a declaration commending or even acknowledging the humane treatment accorded to its prisoners.
This demonstrates that it is a rebel militia without heart or mercy. Its relationship with its soldiers is one of battlefield mobilisation and emergency response; but when they are killed, wounded or captured, Hamidti, Abdel Rahim and Al-Gouni have no concern for them.
They have turned their own members into fuel for the fire of their war.
The humane treatment of prisoners became particularly evident in the desert after the Sudanese Air Force intercepted supplies heading to the militia from Libya, forces loyal to Haftar and Chad. The entire world witnessed the dignified treatment accorded to the Janjaweed rebels by the Joint Force and the Sudanese Armed Forces.

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