Berlin… A Conference or a Masquerade Party?!

As I See

Adel El-Baz

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The masquerade parties go on—same script, same costumes, same staging, and the same clowns playing identical roles to achieve the same ends, only with different masks. The patron of these spectacles stands behind the scenes, pulling the strings. Nothing changes from Paris to Berlin; only the stage shifts, while the performance—the deception—remains the same.

In this article, we seek to strip away the masks to reveal the true faces beneath them and expose their agendas with clarity.

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The First Mask: Humanitarian… but Fake.
The first stage was Paris (April 2023), followed by London (2024), then Geneva, and now the show moves to Berlin on April 15.

The consistent objective of the organizers—France, Britain, and the United States—alongside the Quintet mechanism (the European Union, the United Nations, the African Union, and the League of Arab States) is to mobilize support under the banner of humanitarian action. Yet this is merely a mask to pass political agendas. Under this disguise, the masquerade begins and the performers start their act.

To understand the futility and falsity of these conferences, it is enough to look at their actual outcomes. The three conferences produced total pledges amounting to $4.1 billion on paper. Paris alone announced more than $2.1 billion, London £813 million, and Geneva about $1.5 billion. However, only 22% of these pledges have materialized in reality.

Dr. Khalid Al-Tijani wrote in his recent article in Elaph: “The contribution of the three capitals (Paris, London, and Berlin) to funding the humanitarian response in Sudan remains very modest.” In the 2023 plan, which required $2.6 billion, Germany contributed only 5.1%, France 4.7%, and Britain 4.4%.

These are the very countries that insist on describing Sudan’s crisis as “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world,” yet continue to hold conferences year after year.

Here, the first mask falls. It becomes clear that this has nothing to do with humanitarianism. Otherwise, these “humanitarians” would have been more sincere and committed to their pledges.

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The Second Mask: A Truce… A Lifeline for the Militia.
These conferences always come with calls for a “humanitarian truce” or ceasefire. But this mask conceals a malicious agenda long pursued by the militia’s backers. The intended truce is not a genuine end to war; rather, it is a reorganization of it—granting the militia time to regroup and paving the way toward the country’s division.

Although this mask has long been exposed, the states supporting the militia continue to insist on including it in every conference, knowing that any acceptance would legitimize the militia and grant it a new lease on life.

The Third Mask: Political… Concealing an Agenda.
The previous two masks accompany what is termed the “political track,” which is closely tied to the humanitarian and ceasefire tracks.

At every conference, the “Sumoud” current is imposed as the sole representative of civilian forces—not because it represents all, but because it is the preferred choice. Other national forces are either marginalized or invited merely as decoration.

For this reason, national forces refuse to participate in these spectacles, rejecting the role of false witnesses or additional clowns. This is a sound and respectable national stance.

The true objective of all these performances is to impose a specific political current in power, then legitimize the militia and empower it politically and militarily. This has become evident to all.

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The Fourth Mask: The Patron Hiding Backstage—Exposed.
Behind all these masquerades stands a single author, director, and financier, who believes he can remain hidden behind the curtain. In reality, he is like “the emperor with no clothes”—seen by all while imagining himself unseen. The same illusion afflicts the traveling theatrical troupe called “Sumoud.”

The problem is not who hides behind the scenes, but those who continue to applaud these performances and pin their hopes on them—waiting for promises, illusions, and wishful thinking.

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Note:
O Berlin… Our Sudan is free—it is neither for sale nor humiliation.

Tomorrow (April 14) and the day after, thousands of free Sudanese from across Europe will converge on Berlin to surround the German parliament in a scene befitting the dignity and pride of the people. Their voices will rise high, echoing across Germany and all of Europe, declaring their unequivocal rejection of these exposed theatrics and suspicious conferences.

This is the true voice of Sudan—one they seek to silence by inviting a handful of agents and mercenaries to pass their malicious agenda.

Tomorrow, all of Sudan will stand before the German parliament—east and west, north and south, men and women, youth united in one unyielding situation: a total rejection of legitimizing the militia, of all conferences of deception and conspiracy, and a determination to strip away every mask.