When will Hamdok stop this verbal nonsense?

By Fawzi Bushra

Our great people deserve never to be addressed by you.

You are the one who squandered the energy of the largest revolutionary wave the country has ever known.

You are the one whom Abdel Rahim Dagalo brought in to shake hands with the coup plotters, a move that the revolutionary street rejected. It would have been more appropriate for you to remain on your own path instead of rushing toward the coup leaders, only to resign without regret. That was the greatest betrayal of the December Revolution.

The transitional justice you now call for regarding war crimes is something you are even less capable of achieving than the simpler tasks you failed at as Prime Minister. You left office amid disappointment and the heartbreak of revolutionaries. You did not deliver justice for the massacre at the military headquarters, not even for a single victim, let alone the crimes committed before and after the so-called “liberation.”

As usual, you fail to speak the full truth because you have too much water in your mouth. Do you truly not know who is behind this war in terms of armament, political support, and diplomacy? Not to mention the sheltering of so-called “civilian forces,” among whom you are at the forefront.

When will your conscience awaken so you can define this war correctly? I say it is a war against the people before it is a war against the army.

Where have you been throughout the years of this war, which is now nearing its third year? Have you just woken up now?

The glaring moral weakness in your speech cannot be concealed, despite its tone that feigns historical responsibility—without any real history of astute political action to back it up. No one in Sudan knew you before the regime of Al-Bashir noticed you in its desperate attempt to give itself a smarter face. It mistakenly saw in you wisdom and astuteness, qualities that time has proven you lack. From day one to your last day in office, you acted with the mindset of a bureaucrat, not a visionary leader. Ironically, your rejection of Al-Bashir’s offer became your sole political capital, which the Mo Ibrahim Foundation polished further with political cosmetics, placing you as the leader of a revolution—one that even its youngest members could have led better than you did.

Your lack of political acumen led you, in an almost enviable ignorance, to promote the idea of “harmony” between the military and civilians—when in reality, such harmony existed only in your (confused) imagination.

No novice politician would look at this war, with all its evident realities, as merely a conflict between two sides, then bite his tongue and fold his arms as if he had spoken the whole truth. This is a war in which neutrality is impossible. Your alignment with Sudan’s enemies cannot be concealed by a tone that merely repeats what is already known about Sudan’s ailments. There is nothing new in what you say, Hamdok—great politicians and true revolutionaries have diagnosed Sudan’s issues long before you did. Your only “advantage” is reading aloud from an old book on Sudan’s problems.

Why this speech now? Is it an attempt to curb the army’s advances and halt its victories? Would your speech have carried the same mournful tone over the victims if the Rapid Support Forces had the upper hand on the battlefield today?

Where was Taqaddum, the movement that emerged with grand claims, yet never produced such a detailed speech before it faded away—only to be revived as Sumood?

How could you remain silent about something as dangerous as the foundation of Sumood’s sister movement, which signed onto a constitution for a “New Sudan” with claims as lofty as yours about wisdom and guidance? How did you miss that?

Do you truly not know who supplies the weapons?

It would be one of history’s greatest absurdities if Sudan’s salvation were to come at the hands of a man who barely understands the depths to which he and his cohorts have dragged the greatest revolution. At best, they are mere echoes of your own detached voice. The Sudanese people only knew you in your years in power as nothing more than an abstract political entity, occasionally delivering these cold, bureaucratic speeches.

This nation will prevail—with its army, its people, and the honorable, free sons of Sudan—whether it takes a long or short time.

Sudan’s greatest challenge now is eradicating the enclaves of treachery hidden beneath the cloaks of so-called statesmen, who at their very best are unfit to manage even a village.

When will Hamdok stop this verbal nonsense and quit playing the role of the savior in this pathetic drama—one that was directed by someone no more intelligent than himself?