A Truce Is Betrayal

Rashid Abdul Rahim
The massacres carried out by the Rapid Support Forces and the blood they have spilt in El-Fashir — across its hospitals, homes, schools and streets — are too great to be hidden or shrugged off.
The facts have confirmed what Sudan has long warned: the savagery, aggression and brutality of this rebellion have overrun every human value, revealing a level of cruelty the world would hardly have believed had it not seen it with its own eyes.
Overnight, the world turned its song to solidarity with Sudan and its people, who have been subjected to the worst kinds of brutality.
You see it in the tableau of global footballers — from Mbappé to Mohamed Salah — and in the big clubs, even those owned by those who bankroll this enemy; in hours, Sudanese issues displaced the usual trending topics dominated by clubs like Manchester City, with its millions of followers.
Even international organisations such as Reporters Without Borders have not lagged in supporting Sudan and standing with the victims of El-Fashir.
The world almost made us forget former US President Bill Clinton, who did not fail to stand with the free people of the world in a unique show of solidarity.
Many hostile forces, whether local or international, rush to stage positions or actions intended to discredit anyone who supports Sudan.
What happened in El-Fashir and the spontaneous solidarity that followed will shatter every attempt to shackle the country or drag it backwards.
The Sudanese people will not abandon the world that stood by them by retreating from the clear path: we will not accept anything less than a firm rejection of all the aggressors — those who bore arms and killed directly, and those who supported them in various ways.
A truce with the RSF would be a step towards recognising it as a political force, rather than the brutal, hostile force it is — a force that deserves punishment, not a seat at a negotiating table, whatever the pretexts or reasons offered.
El-Fashir is not the only place that has revealed the true nature of the rebellion; our people experienced the same in Sennar, Singa, Al-Jazirah and Khartoum.
Since the war began, all Sudan has come to understand — and the world realised this after El-Fashir — that the rebellion we face is not one with which we can coexist. It is a project of uprooting and replacement: they want to expel the people of Khartoum and occupy their homes themselves, or, as their leader said, leave them to be inhabited by cats.
They are killing our people in El-Fashir because they want the city emptied of its inhabitants so their own people can live there; those who remain will be enslaved.
A truce and negotiations would be a betrayal of all the martyrs of El-Fashir, of the victims of Wad al-Noura, of the widows of Al-Jazirah, Sennar and Singa, of Al-Hajj Youssef and Bahri.
A truce is a betrayal of those run down and crushed by vehicles, of those buried alive, and of those whose wives were raped before their eyes.
A truce is a betrayal of all the free people who have stood, and continue to stand, with Sudan across the world.

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