Enciting Killings

By Rashid Abdul Rahim
The army did not go to El-Fashir to attack it, expel its inhabitants, or occupy it — nor did it go to Ed Daein.
The army was present in these cities, in the capital, in Al-Jazirah, and throughout Sudan long before the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) even came into existence.
It was the RSF that advanced towards El-Fashir and these other cities — and that is why the correct description for it is the aggressor.
When an aggressor marches on a city, occupies it after slaughtering and mutilating its residents, condemning such an act alone will not suffice to protect lives or stop the massacres, killings, and displacement.
Those who merely denounce the rebellion’s crimes without doing more are, in effect, encouraging it to continue.
What can truly stop the massacres and killings is demanding that the RSF end the war — not just calling for an end to aggression and then remaining silent about the clear and evident crime of igniting war and attacking the armed forces and civilians in their positions.
Calling on the rebels to “cease violations” and “protect civilians” in fact amounts to recognising them as the legitimate governing authority, charged with maintaining security and protecting lives — a role reserved for legitimate governments which deploy official forces for that purpose.
This truth is not lost on Samoond (the resistance platform) nor on the United States, both of which are among the main domestic and international forces calling on the rebels to stop killing and attacking civilians — yet they do not call on them to stop the war itself.
By taking this position, they are committing a grave betrayal of the Sudanese people, for they are not sincere in what they claim to demand.
Samoond and, behind it, its political allies — the Umma Party, the Sudanese Congress Party, and others — along with the entire Western bloc and neighbouring states, are exploiting this war. They wish for the rebellion to triumph, to seize the cities, and to rule Sudan.
Neither Samoond nor the United States nor the West are working to preserve Sudan or its citizens; rather, they seek a government purged of their adversaries — the Islamists — as they openly declare.
Their stance encourages the rebels to fight and expand their reach, thereby weakening the government by alienating the national and Islamic forces that fight alongside the army against the rebellion and have stood with it in all its battles and victories.
It is a grotesque opportunism, paid for in Sudanese blood — the blood that has been spilled and continues to flow — and its price is seen today in the RSF’s actions in El-Fashir: genocide, identity-based killing, and gross violations of the right to life.
The Janjaweed killer “Abu Lulu”, who boasts of the vast number of his victims, is today considered their best man — for he fulfils their desire to terrorise people in the name of the RSF.
The United States and its allies, along with Samoond and its followers, claim to believe in democracy, freedom, and the peaceful transfer of power. Yet they do not abide by these principles, for they fear that true democracy might bring to power those they consider their enemies. In this, their position is no different from that of the rebels: whoever encourages the killer and remains silent about stopping his war is his partner, no different from him in any way.
For them, “democracy”, “freedom”, and “peaceful transfer of power” are merely slogans — valid only when they serve as a path to power, even if the cost is the lives of all the people of El-Fashir and its inhabitants.

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