A fierce war has been raging in Sudan since April 2023, fuelled by a struggle for power, wealth, and gold between two warlords: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the de facto leader of the country, and the commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hemedti." The atrocities committed in El Fasher are no less horrific than those perpetrated in Gaza, including murder, torture, mass rape, displacement, looting, humiliation, and ethnic cleansing.
A few days ago, the Minister of National Security in Netanyahu's government, Itamar Ben-Gvir, presented a video showing what he claimed were elite fighters from Hamas's Qassam Brigades, with their hands and feet bound and their eyes blindfolded. He boasted that they were being tortured, imprisoned, and awaiting execution.
Another leaked video shows the gang rape of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers who boast and laugh at their actions. This video was leaked by the Israeli military prosecutor, General Yifat Yerushalmi, who then disappeared, reportedly committing suicide. She was later found, and Benjamin Netanyahu accused her of committing an act of terrorism for allegedly damaging Israel's image.
Most credible international human rights organisations agree that what happened in Gaza was a war of extermination, a war documented with audio and video evidence. It depicts the systematic elimination of an entire population and the destruction of their cities, homes, and villages. This war of extermination primarily targets children, aiming to prevent them from growing up and perpetuating the Palestinian people's existence in Gaza. Visual and oral testimonies document systematic rape, organ harvesting, and the use of rare medical experiments on victims. Other videos show dozens of victims being buried in mass graves.
Several reports and sources indicate that YouTube has removed more than 700 videos documenting shameful violations against Palestinians by Israelis.
In El Fasher, North Kordofan, in central Sudan, a deranged individual named Apollo boasted that he would kill 2,000 Sudanese people. He then coldly and callously shot a wounded man on the ground, along with others, displaying a complete lack of conscience or feeling.
A fierce war has been raging in Sudan since April 2023, a war for power, money, and gold between the two warlords: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the RSF. Atrocities are being committed that are no less horrific than those perpetrated in Gaza: murder, torture, mass rape, displacement, looting, humiliation, and ethnic cleansing. This war of extermination differs from the one in Gaza only in that the perpetrators and victims share the same nationality and religion—all are Sudanese, and the majority are Muslims.
However, the RSF have been carrying out ethnic and tribal cleansing against specific tribes since 2003. Hemedti was the leader of this group at the time, brought in by al-Bashir, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and ruler of Sudan until his downfall in the 2019 revolution. Al-Bashir legitimised his forces, which shared power after his fall with Burhan's army, euphemistically called the "Sudanese Army," but no less brutal and savage than the RSF. Hemedti and the “Sudanese Army” clashed over power and leadership, igniting a conflagration that has been consuming the entire Sudanese people for three years.
To differentiate between Burhan, Hemedti, and Abu Lulu is like trying to differentiate between Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, and Netanyahu, because the policies of genocide and crimes are the same. Who condemns the arbitrary arrests without trial of Sudanese in Darfur and Kordofan, and the arrests of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza by Israelis without trial, while also demanding condemnation of the arbitrary executions carried out and still being carried out by Hamas in Gaza without trial, after the fragile cessation of the Israeli war of extermination?
The victim is indifferent to the nationality or religion of the killer; a bullet is blind and makes no distinction between one body and another, regardless of the victim's colour, religion, or ethnicity. Those whose feelings toward the victims of genocide or executions in Darfur or Gaza vary according to the killer's religion, colour, or ethnicity should re-examine their consciences, if they have any.
Photo: There is a genocide in El Fasher, Sudan, and another in Gaza (by Adobe).