{"id":19111,"date":"2024-04-19T06:41:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2024-04-19T06:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:41:29","slug":"on-what-shall-the-army-and-rsf-negotiating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/on-what-shall-the-army-and-rsf-negotiating\/","title":{"rendered":"On What Shall the Army and RSF negotiating?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By:\u00a0 Dr. Al-Derdiri Mohamed Ahmed, former FM of Sudan<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have marked one year since the outbreak of the Sudan War on April 15, 2023.\u00a0 If the world paid some attention to this war in its first months, it quickly left it, preoccupied with other new things.\u00a0 If the mediations are active to end them in the year that was planned, they will most likely fade away in the coming.\u00a0 Rather, it is feared that if these mediations are carried out, they will not have a better chance of success than their predecessors.\u00a0 That’s not pessimism.\u00a0 Rather, it is because all indicators indicate that the mediators do not care about the first reason that leads to the success of the negotiation, which is the correct description of this war and the nature of its two parties in the balance of constitutional legitimacy. How did past mediations fail to establish this weight fairly?\u00a0 What should the next brokerage do, if it has control over itself and does not want to lose the balance?<\/p>\n

Immediately after the war broke out, the international media called it \u201cthe war of the two generals,\u201d considering it a war sparked by the intense competition between the two men for the presidential seat.\u00a0 Regional organizations, including the African Union and IGAD, said this.\u00a0 Rather, several important African countries equated between the two men, so Hemedti was received as the presidents received.\u00a0 The basis of the initiative of the IGAD Subcommittee, which was announced by its Chairman, Kenyan President William Ruto, was to hold a face-to-face meeting that included the two generals in Djibouti in December last year.\u00a0 How far from the truth was that description of the nature of this war.\u00a0 Rather, how much he offended. He makes Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan, Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, a mere imposter, like Hemedti, searching for power without the legitimacy of the Commander of the National Army, which he enjoys in light of a transitional period in which there is no elected government.\u00a0 Hence, Al-Burhan avoided holding the meeting. Hemedti was running behind it.\u00a0 Then the IGAD mediation failed, and after that any mediation based on the idea that this war is a war of two generals will fail. If they met and agreed to share power, the war would be over.<\/p>\n

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The other premise on which the other unannounced mediation was built, which produced the Manama Agreement on January 20, 2024, the text of which was leaked by Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, is the premise that Rapid Support Forces (RSF)\u00a0 is a \u201ccause and a project.\u201d\u00a0 The proponents of this mediation believe that this war was fought for the sake of a cause that is to thwart the 1956 state and overcome its consequences.\u00a0 For a project to establish a civil state on the basis of the Framework Agreement.\u00a0 They believe that those who ignited this war were the remnants of the previous regime to prevent them from serving this noble cause or implementing this great national project.\u00a0 Did you not see how the Manama Agreement calls for addressing the \u201croots\u201d of the war, making the people the \u201cprimary source of power,\u201d \u201censuring equal citizenship,\u201d adopting a \u201clegal reform package,\u201d and criminalizing \u201cdeparting from constitutional legitimacy and undermining the democratic system\u201d!\u00a0 Haven’t you seen how RSF is what frames the armed forces to return to constitutional legitimacy, since they are the ones who departed from it?\u00a0 And it is the one urging her to repent and submit to the democratic system after it undermined it!\u00a0 Although no one in the Sudanese political arena has denounced this blatant fallacy except the RSF and Taqaddum movement led by former Prime Minister Dr. Abdullah Hamdouk, it has found supporters in the international arena.\u00a0 These are the ones who adopted it and pushed for its layout in Manama.\u00a0 They believe that if Hemedti does not have the constitutional legitimacy that makes him the general equivalent to Burhan, then he is the owner of the great national project that the army failed!\u00a0 He was the one who came to address the noble cause that the army failed to advance!\u00a0 It is not surprising that these mediators were the ones who came up with the Framework Agreement and supported it yesterday.\u00a0 Today, they are the ones calling on the Taqaddum movement to participate in the Paris conference without inviting the legitimate party.\u00a0 If it were not for a trace of shame, they would have invited Hemedti besides Hamdouk.<\/p>\n

As for the third premise, which is fundamental to the success of the upcoming mediation if it wants to distance itself from agendas and wants this war to be silenced forever, it is the one that stems from the idea that the Sudanese Armed Forces are the ones with full and undiminished constitutional legitimacy.\u00a0 The RSF is the semi-regular paramilitary force that rebelled against the army and turned into a militia that has no legitimacy or project except to plunder, loot, burn, rape, and spread devastation and death wherever it goes.\u00a0 It is a starting point that is currently only clearly expressed by the Egyptian position.\u00a0 South Sudan has an approach that is not far behind. The Jeddah Initiative also indicates some of this.\u00a0 With the Jeddah Declaration issued on May 11, 2023 calling for a ceasefire to precede the eviction of RSF from homes and public civil facilities, this initiative can be developed in this direction.\u00a0 This is because opening any window to negotiate with the RSF regarding any matter other than removing it from the citizens\u2019 homes that it usurped, returning their looted possessions, and holding it accountable for the crimes it committed would be a reason to give it legitimacy that it does not deserve.\u00a0 Or approve a project that is not its.\u00a0 The Army Commander has rightly emphasized this repeatedly. In this regard, it comes from the overwhelming position of the people and their living forces that unanimously rejected anything other than this.<\/p>\n

US President John Kennedy is reported to have said in April 1961, while he was in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs, \u201cLet us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. The analogy between the confrontations of major nations among themselves and Sudan\u2019s war with Hemedti is not correct, or in the language of jurists, analogy with a difference.\u00a0 However, the lesson learned from Kennedy’s statement is that there is a universal past year according to which war, insofar as it is a war, whatever it is, , wherever it may be, and whoever its parties are, “the end of which is speech.”\u00a0 Only a few deviate from this, and the deviant has no rule.\u00a0 But if we want an analogy by which we can measure the state of Hemedti\u2019s rebellion, one piece of shit for another, then that is the case of the transgressor who seeks corruption on earth.\u00a0 Even the legal sentence will be lightened for him if he repents and puts down his weapons before you can control him.\u00a0 Negotiation is one of the forms through which it is possible to lay down the weapons of those who seek corruption on earth.\u00a0 However, negotiating with these people is not valid if it has any other purpose.\u00a0 In addition to his goal being to dress the transgressor as legal, or to acknowledge that his effort in the land to corrupt it and destroy the crop and the offspring is in itself an issue.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we say let the Sudanese army not negotiate with the RSF out of fear of its expansion or even fragmentation, to give it legitimacy that he lacks, or to make him the owner of a project or cause.\u00a0 But let it not be afraid to negotiate with RSF for the sake of negotiating with the transgressors who seek corruption in the land, so they burden the truth until they lay down their weapons and the war ends.\u00a0 This can only be done from the standpoint of complete legitimacy that is based on this great public rally.\u00a0 If the Sudanese army has not yet had a platform to launch such mediation based on this conviction, it will have such a platform in this new year of ours, sooner rather than later.\u00a0 This was only due to the entire people standing behind their army, except those who refuse.\u00a0 Thanks to his armed resistance, which has become more powerful.\u00a0 Thanks to the brilliant victories that came one after the other.\u00a0 Then thanks to the many brothers who take the correct position on the issue of constitutional legitimacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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