Perseverance in Failure

Rashid Abdel Rahim

They persevered in failure in every movement and stillness until it led them to a new name that describes their state and narrates a journey of misery—from Qahat to Taqaddum, and then to Sumoud (Perseverance).
They persevered while being incapable of leading a revolution that had fallen into their hands by chance and without merit, only to lead it to ruin. Then they established a government that was, truthfully, a perseverance in failure and deterioration in every aspect and direction.
They built their rule on the violation of all their slogans, creating an oppressive, dictatorial regime steeped in every form of ugliness.
They contradicted all values of justice and set up inquisitions to silence voices and the press, spreading corruption through which they devoured private wealth and looting homes and farms.
Then their hands extended to public funds, and no treasury, equipment, vehicles, hotels, or reserves were spared from them.
They founded their rule on graft and sold the entire Sudan to foreign interests.
Shame did not prevent them from becoming tails and slaves to rebellion, supporting it both secretly and openly.
They recorded in their history and the history of Sudan that they were the first political force to oppose the national army and seek its destruction while in power, never hesitating to conspire against it alongside those who rebelled.
The Sudanese people reaped nothing from them but hunger, scarcity, inflation, weakness, and defeat.
They gathered fragments of parties without values or history, adding fictitious names of villages, rural areas, and neighbourhoods to create a paper-thin alliance.
Even the leaders of their new alliance could not renew or change themselves. In Qahat, they were leaders; in Taqaddum, and now in Sumoud, they confirmed their inability to find new men for each stage, instead dressing the same bodies that carry the same minds of failure.
They think Sudan will remain as it was before their rebellion and aggression against it.
They bickered over a government they built on their delusions, with some among them seeking to complete the journey of betrayal and hand it over to the rebellion.
They distributed positions in a government that had no land to stand on except areas controlled by the rebel Rapid Support Forces, making them the actual rulers while they were nothing but mercenaries with titles.
A government that, for those who rejected it, has no homeland to return to after they abandoned it and were abandoned by it. There will be no place for them in the Sudan of victories, which will not accommodate the killers of the Rapid Support Forces nor the traitors of Sumoud’s failure.

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