The war in Sudan took a painful turn with the emergence of a widely circulated video clip showing armed soldiers wearing the uniform of the Sudanese Armed Forces, carrying the separated heads of two Sudanese young men from the city of Wad Al-Haddad, south of Al-Jazira State, coming from one of the West African countries where they were working. There, the soldiers who committed this heinous crime and appeared in the video clip claimed that the victims were members of the Rapid Support Forces. This incident, along with the inflammatory speech from the Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, General Yasser Al-Atta, led to an escalation of tensions between some Sudanese tribes and ethnic groups. This raised concerns about the possibility of the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces turning into a large-scale civil war.
The failure to reach a peaceful solution deepens the suffering of the Sudanese people, who are in the crosshairs of armed conflict, famine, disease and displacement, and exposes the security- and politically fragile Horn of Africa region to the risk of peaceful unrest and the risk of exposure to terrorist groups such as ISIS, Boko Haram and other allied groups.
As the crisis in Sudan deepens, urgent international attention and intervention are needed to assist the Sudanese people in their aspiration toward peace and stability and address the intertwined challenges of hate speech, the threat of civil war, and impending famine. The comprehensive peace process, based on the principles specified by the national political forces based on the rebuilding of a unified national army, integrating the Rapid Support Forces and all other armed movements, the exit of the security and military services from political practice, and ending the state of rebellion of these agencies against the authority of the civil state and their complete submission to it. In addition to establishing a democratic civil system, in which these principles provide a strong foundation for addressing the causes of the current conflict and preventing other conflicts in the future, which is crucial to paving the way towards a more stable and prosperous future for the people of Sudan.
Al-Kabbashi Ahmed Abdel-Wahab
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