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| Sudanese generals determined to eliminate RSF militiamen and prosecute rebel commander |
| 2023-05-15 |
| [SUDANTRIBUNE] A member of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, Lt. General Yasir al-Atta, voiced their determination to dissolve the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and prosecute its rebel commander militarily. Several sources close to the American-Saudi mediated talks in Jeddah said an agreement would be signed in the coming hours to stop the fighting in Khartoum and deliver humanitarian assistance to the civilians in the capital. In an interview with the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Wednesday, Mohammed al-Atta, however, said that the aim of the talks underway in Jeddah was only to withdraw RSF forces outside the capital and assemble them in a gathering site before merging those who met the conditions for military service and demobilizing the rest. "It is important to prosecute senior RSF commanders for crimes they have committed against the homeland and citizens. Any dialogue other than these points is a postponement of the war to another time," he stressed. The Sudanese military stressed that they would not accept any international plan that leads to another solution. He pointed out that there is no greater danger to Sudan than the presence of "these militias," accusing them of sabotaging the political and economic life and plundering the country’s resources. "The actual disaster is the presence of the Daglo family on the Sudanese map," he said, referring to the RSF Commander Mohammed Hamdan Daglo aka Hemetti. He also ruled out any possible development of this conflict into a civil war, considering that the army is a national institution representing all the tribes of Sudan and that the current conflict is with a rebel group. General Atta is perceived as one of the hard-line military leaders who reject any compromise with the RSF leader and has been calling for a long time to curb Hemetti’s political and economic ambitions in the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Thank you for reading the New York Times so we don’t have to, Slavising Unineting5672. ;-) And for sharing what you know on the subject — Rantburg U rules!! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-05-15 21:41 |
| #1 NY Times, precis. "Today, Darfur the fighting has created a security vacuum that militias and armed tribes have exploited, raising fears of a widespread conflict and brutality... Fighting between two military factions has thrown Sudan into chaos..., As feuding generals turned Khartoum into a war zone. The violence has driven thousands of Sudanese into neighboring countries... As the crisis in Sudan creates the kind of power vacuum that the United States had hoped to avoid, critics of the Biden admin are blaming a naïve approach to foreign policy for the violence. In West Darfur in recent years, Arab communities have mobilized alongside the Rapid Support Forces and carried out attacks against non-Arab African groups, including the Masalit group, said Mohamed Osman, a Sudan researcher at Human Rights Watch. ..." This is reporting that definitely needs expansion. First off, the RSF are led by a Zaghawa, and reporting indicates it is composed of ethnic Zaghawa, a non-Arab tribe. Why the African Mesalit should be under attack by Zaghawa is questionable, unless the ethnic Mesalit have thrown in with the Nile River Arabs, which does not make sense. If the African Zaghawa, Messalit, Fur and Darfur's minority tribes can expunge years of mistrust and unite, and then attack and defeat the Arab tribes of Darfur (which helped sponsor the vicious Janjaweed predators fostered by the Nile Arabs), the province can be theirs, howbeit after some struggle. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-15 08:50 |