With a deep sense of pain and anger, we followed and continue to follow what Sudan and its people are going through in terms of destruction and serious deterioration resulting from the raging infighting between military generals, which does not carry any good for Sudan and its people.
Our pain has been exacerbated by the terrible deterioration in economic and humanitarian conditions, the disruption of health services, the collapse of electricity networks and the foundations of human life.
And this pain was preceded, for us Palestinians, by another pain when we saw Sudan’s military leaders holding meetings and agreements of normalization with the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime, in contradiction to the sincere national spirit and absolute solidarity with Palestine that has always distinguished the brotherly people of Sudan and its living forces.
What brought Sudan, the loyalties of the famous Khartoum summit, to this sinister situation? What is the justification for transforming a country, which could be the breadbasket of the entire Arab world, and a source of rich wealth that guarantees the progress and well-being of the Sudanese people, into a bloody war arena between different military parties, fueled and exploited by colonial powers seeking to control the wealth (and capabilities) of this country, which is threatened with further division and fragmentation. By separating western Sudan (Darfur) after it bisected its south with well-known support and conspiracy from Israel itself, with which normalization took place.
Was escaping from the entitlement of democratic transition and the transition to civil rule the real motive for this armed conflict to destroy all the achievements of the sacrifices of the Sudanese people who had previously risen up against the military dictatorship?
Is it destined for Sudan to continue the transition from a dictatorial military rule to another military dictatorship, in which the rulers sacrifice the interests of their peoples, their wealth and their homeland time after time in order to preserve the seats of power and its economic privileges, and seek the support of external powers and parties, greedy in Sudan and its people?
Isn't what is happening in Sudan a new confirmation of the causes of the crises and tragedies experienced by Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon and other Arab countries?
Without neglecting the first causes of these tragedies, which are external interventions and conspiracies from colonial powers, other greedy ones, and a third party representing complicit parties with colonial powers, including Israel, it must be said that the internal factor represented in depriving peoples of their right to participate in managing the affairs of Their countries, the choice of their leaders, and the practice of democratic life, including freedom of political and social organization, freedom of opinion and expression, and the most basic human rights, is what makes these countries weak and permissible prey from external parties and powers in a world that is governed only by interests after values and principles have retreated.
Neither Sudan nor any Arab country can overcome its current crises, and even more dangerous crises that lie in wait for it, without its leadership and government being accountable to its people, without being subject to periodic democratic elections, without allowing freedom of opinion, political pluralism and freedom of organization, and without launching The civilized development of a prosperous and effective civil society, and without fair laws that prohibit corruption and prevent the use of foreign and internal political money for the purpose of political hegemony, and without the subordination of the security services and armies to the democratically elected civil authorities, and their absolute distance from indulging in economic and political activities.
The tasks of the armies and the security system, in any civilized system, must be limited to protecting the country from external aggressions and interference, providing safety for the people, combating crime, and not indulging in oppressing peoples and suppressing their freedom, spying on the lives and privacy of their individuals, and competing in controlling natural wealth, economic projects and corruption. And then indulge in wars and conflicts with each other, greedy for those wealth and projects.
The democratic transition has not and will not be an easy process, and we have seen how the apparatus of the deep state was able to pounce on the results of great popular revolutions in which Arab peoples achieved real miracles, only to find themselves prey to a counter-revolution that pulled them back towards a worse situation than it was before the explosion of their revolutions.
Therefore, the revolutionary action and popular struggle was subject to repeated defeat if it was not based on organized and persevering forces that convince the people and prove to them that they give priority to the interests of these peoples over their own and partisan interests.
We wish Sudan not to descend into a fierce civil war that destroys its future and leads it to the destruction of fragmentation and division, and causes unforgivable suffering to its people. It seems that there is no solution to avoid that black fate, except for the resignation of the military contending for power, and opening the door to the transition to a civil democratic system.
As for the countries of the world that claim to be democratic and believe in democracy, they must be put to the test, by asking them to stop feeding the conflicting parties with weapons, support and influence, with our deep awareness that the decisive solution was and will remain in the hands of the Sudanese people themselves, and no external party will guarantee Sudan a path of safety, for that depends on the people of Sudan. Sudan itself, and its ability to isolate the conflicting parties in defense of their own interests, and to impose democratic transformation.
Perhaps what is happening in Sudan today is a lesson for those who want to be considered among the rulers, before the incident takes place, and they lose not only their rule, but their countries as well.
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So that Sudan is not lost