The city of El Fasher in Sudan is all of a sudden all over the news! The mass murders of unarmed Africans are front page news in all the bourgeois colonial media, when we know that these mass killings with its shootings, rapings, starving, whipping, hanging and forced displacement of African people from their ancestral land has been going on since the war erupted on April 15, 2023 between the Sudanese Armed forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The agricultural city of El Fasher, with its 300,000 inhabitants, has been under siege for 18 months by the exterminators of the RSF who kidnapped, maimed, tortured or killed anyone trying to bring food, medicines or water to the city.
The bourgeois colonial media are talking about Sudan now, playing catch-up just for a limited period. Sudan has become the main news in the world because of the efforts of alternative independent news on social media like The Burning Spear and others.
They are not doing it in solidarity with African people, but to control the narrative that protects the U.S., the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other parasitic forces that are benefitting from this war of aggression and looting in Sudan.
The soil of El Fasher has turned red with so much spilled blood from African masses that it can be seen in satellite imagery from space. Yet, there is no demonization of the U.S. nor of the UAE rulers. Even worse, there is no wave of sympathy for the African victims of this colonial war of U.S. aggression on Africa through its UAE proxy.
Where are Bono and the Edge, Sean Penn, David Beckham, Angelina Jolie and other “freedom-loving” celebrities who led the solidarity with Ukraine?
Abdel Fattah Al Burhan and Mohammed Dagalo, perpetrators of genocidal wars in Darfur
Of course, April 15, 2023 is not the beginning of this horror, but the turning point in the vicious power struggle between SAF and RSF. These two African petty bourgeois ex-accomplices in the Darfur genocide turned into rivals and are now vying for neocolonial control of Sudan, and their conflict has exploded into the open.
The two leaders in the current Sudan war are General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the SAF and president of Sudan, and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (also known as Hemedti). Both are products of former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir’s counterinsurgency terror in Darfur between 2003 and 2020.
The Janjaweed militia was a militia formed by the al-Bashir government to terrorize impoverished African people in Darfur. In 2008, al-Burhan became regional commander in the regular SAF, and Mohamed Dagalo became Janjaweed militia commander in the same war in Darfur, fighting to kill and displace Africans.
In 2013, in an attempt to protect his rule, al-Bashir reorganized and expanded the Janjaweed militia to become the RSF under the leadership of Mohamed Dagalo.
Since then, several hundred thousand unarmed African civilians have been killed, women have been systematically raped and millions of people have been forced into concentration camps disguised as camps for internally displaced people.
Under al-Bashir’s government, both the Sudanese army and the RSF fought in Yemen as Saudi Arabia’s proxies against the Houthis, an anti-zionist force.
According to leaked documents released by the Wall Street Journal, “In 2020, the UAE signed a deal with RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as ‘Hemedti,’ to lease his fighters as mercenaries in Yemen and Libya, after Abu Dhabi paid him $27 million, based on banking documents.”
In 2019, when civilian protests for democratic rights and rule erupted in Khartoum, al-Bashir ordered the RSF to shoot at the protesters to quell the struggle.
Surprise! Surprise! Al-Bashir’s monster teamed up with General al-Burhan and the mass democratic demonstrators demanding civilian rule and toppled al-Bashir.
We say that the Donald Trump-led “United Settlers” and the UAE are the primary forces in the current genocidal attack against Africans in Sudan. The U.S. has imposed 30 years of sanctions with devastating impact on Sudan while funding the war of secession of the South of Sudan.
The U.S. has long ago declared its intentions to break up Sudan.
Egypt, a vassal State of the U.S. government, supplies weapons for gold to the Sudanese Armed Forces. Then Egypt sells its gold to the UAE.
The United Arab Emirates supply weapons, military training and money to the RSF for gold and acacia gum. Sudan is also a ground of massive land grab by the Saudis, UAE and other new parasitic forces.
Algeria supports the SAF with weaponry, and Türkiye and Iran are providing drones to the SAF.
The UAE is using Somalia and Chad to channel weapons to the RSF. There are reports of Colombian mercenaries fighting alongside the RSF, and Russia’s Wagner military group is training RSF, too.
It’s a war for Sudan’s gold
The irony is that both armed forces are linked to gold exploitation and export. The al-Burhan government sells its gold to Egypt who sells it to the UAE and the RSF sells theirs to the UAE.
A fragmented Sudan is a long-term goal for the U.S. and Israeli settler colonial States and the new colonial UAE State in the region.
Libya, Somalia and Sudan are in Africa, and Africans must never forget that wars in Africa are to maintain the fundamental role and location of Africa as the “cradle or genesis” of the colonial mode of production to steal and transfer our wealth for the economic, financial and technological development of foreign powers and nations.
Immediate ceasefire
These are not spontaneous wars initiated by one single U.S. settlers’ president to win midterm elections or a second mandate, but long-term goals to maintain and rescue U.S. colonial domination of the colonial capitalist world economy.
Sudan is a majority-African country despite the partition imposed by the U.S. since the declaration of independence of South Sudan. John Garang, the leader of South Sudan, agreed to be a vice president of United Sudan in 2001, but died suspiciously in Ugandan neocolonial president Yoweri Museveni’s helicopter crash. His elimination paved the way for the partition of Sudan.
This genocidal assult on the people of Sudan must end! We demand an immediate ceasefire between SAF and the RSF, and an immediate withdrawal of all foreign mercenaries.
There must be a withdrawal of the RSF from all occupied areas and the creation of a transition civilian body to organize humanitarian relief and prepare for free and fair democratic elections.
Uhuru!
