State Terrorism Takes a Dangerous Destabilizing Turn in Sudan

By: Kayhan Int’l 

The situation in Sudan is slipping from bad to worse as soldiers snuff life out of students and in response to protests by the public the ruling military junta shuts down schools.

The killing of at least four young students in the city of al-Obeid, not just shocked the Sudanese but people throughout the world, but for observers of the recent developments in this part of Africa and the region, these bloody incidents were not surprising.

Experts point out that although the ousted and imprisoned long-time dictator President General Omar Hassan al-Bashir was not an angel and indulged in brutal ways to silence the civilian opposition during his 30-year rule, in addition to terrorizing the ethnic African Muslims of Darfur through the murderous Janjaweed militias, the present rulers are trying to outdo him in atrocities against their own fellow Arab Muslims, since the coup leaders are backed by such ruthless and rootless Arab regimes as Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

The new strongman, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who is directly beholden to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi for his rise, and indirectly to the US and the illegal Zionist entity, has no intention to honour the agreement that his so-called Transitional Military Council (TMC) entered into with the opposition FFC (Forces of Freedom and Change) for a surprising three year-long period for holding elections and returning the rule to a civilian government. 

Those familiar with the developments in Sudan know that the military ruler is lying glibly, and like his predecessor General Bashir, who in 1989 overthrew the last elected civilian government of veteran politician Prime Minister Sadeq al-Mahdi, he is likely to exchange his uniform for the traditional white robes and turban in order to remain in power as ‘president’ on the basis of fraudulent voting.

Those in doubt about the intentions of the new military leader should ask the aging Sadeq al-Mahdi (scion of the revolutionary Mahdi of the 19th century), or the spirit of the deceased Hassan at-Turabi – the reformist leader deceived by General al-Bashir to consolidate his rule before being ditched and dumped into a prison.

In such a critical situation, the Sudanese people, who are known to be educated and cultured with deep attachment to Islam, should neither allow themselves to be hoodwinked by the dictator in Khartoum nor to be bribed into unwarranted silence by his wealthy backers in the Persian Gulf states on the hollow slogan of Arab solidarity that doesn’t prevent them from brutally massacring fellow Arab Muslims of Yemen (with the aid of thousands of Sudanese mercenary soldiers), or for that matter of destabilizing Syria and Iraq through the macabrely murderous Takfiri terrorists, in addition to their sellout of the Palestinians to the Zionist usurpers.

The Americans are no friends of the Muslim people of Sudan, and along with Israel, will never allow Sudan to be a strong and independent Muslim country under an elected civilian government.

Under the circumstances, only iron-will resolve of the Sudanese masses on the basis of Islam and national solidarity, will enable them to shake the foundations of the illegal military junta, by offering determined martyrs to their cause, which means the four students killed in cold blood by the soldiers, are the vanguards of martyrdom in what appears to be a long and bloody struggle for the eventual triumph of people’s power in this important Arab African Muslim country.