{"id":52254,"date":"2025-08-02T02:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=52254"},"modified":"2025-08-02T02:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:02:02","slug":"the-alliance-of-the-fugitives-from-their-own-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/the-alliance-of-the-fugitives-from-their-own-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alliance of the Fugitives\u2026 from Their Own Failures!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I See<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adil El-Baz<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1)
\nI don\u2019t know why I feel a wave of depression every time I think about the predicament our brothers in \u201cSumood\u201d (“Steadfastness”) have landed in. Perhaps it\u2019s because some of them are friends or former students\u2014though some have betrayed, and others have simply failed.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not referring to the political trap “Sumood” finds itself in after the announcement of the online \u201cFounding Government\u201d\u2014that\u2019s well known. Nor do I mean their moral failure before the Sudanese people, or the price they must pay for aligning with a criminal militia. My pity for them isn\u2019t because of the confusion they\u2019re drowning in or the disgrace of their political stance. Certainly not.<\/p>\n

What saddens me is how their names and slogans have become meaningless\u2014then and now.
\n\u201cTheir slogans were like paper fireworks\u2014sparkling briefly in the air, then leaving only the ashes of disappointment clinging to the collective memory.\u201d
\nThey chanted slogans as grand as the nation, then shrunk them once seated in power, and their actions were so feeble they couldn\u2019t hold a candle to their promises.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

(2)
\nIn the beginning, they called themselves \u201cQa\u1e25t\u201d (the Arabic acronym for Forces of Freedom and Change), but before long, those disillusioned by the revolution\u2019s slogans twisted it into Qa\u1e25\u1e6d\u2014a word for drought\u2014because of their political incompetence and betrayal of revolutionary comrades.<\/p>\n

Awareness returned swiftly to the youth\u2014the same youth whose dreams of change were betrayed, whose corpses were left rotting in morgues.<\/p>\n

Their hopes were shattered on the rock of partisan greed. They witnessed how foreign ambassadors invaded the country, markets went up in flames, security collapsed, and the nation became weightless\u2014worthless.
\nUntil it sank so low that Salah Manaa became the de facto leader, and Hemedti its chief economic thinker!<\/p>\n

Thus, the wretchedly short life of \u201cQa\u1e25\u1e6d\u201d was concluded with the sham \u201cFramework Agreement,\u201d which amounted to nothing less than a declaration of war.<\/p>\n

(3)
\nTrying to shed their skin after sparking war and fleeing the country aboard Janjaweed technicals disguised in kadamool, they had no choice but to rebrand themselves. So, they chose a name wholly undeserved: “Taqaddum” (Progress).<\/p>\n

The audacity is baffling. How can fugitives from their own war crimes call themselves \u201cProgress\u201d?<\/p>\n

What progress have they brought to their country since the revolution?
\nWhat progress exists even within their fractured alliance\u2014now broken shards scattered to the wind?<\/p>\n

What progress do we expect from a group of fragments that have no shared vision, no program, no coherence\u2014just an empty slogan: \u201cNo to war\u201d?
\nAnd the louder they chanted \u201cNo to war,\u201d the more the war raged and expanded.
\nSo, what inspired them to choose such a name?<\/p>\n

(4)
\nFor a third time, they abandoned \u201cTaqaddum,\u201d and dissolved their announced alliance with the Janjaweed\u2019s new political party, \u201cTa\u2019sees\u201d (Foundation)\u2014a party born without guidance or a meaningful charter. Yet the secret coordination room with the militia remained, by order of the sponsor.<\/p>\n

This time, the name was a sick joke: \u201cSumood\u201d\u2014Steadfastness.
\nYes, I swear\u2014steadfastness!<\/p>\n

I kept thinking about the name\u2026 Every time I look at it, I laugh, walk away, then come back even more confused.
\nHow exactly are they \u201csteadfast\u201d? A coalition of fugitives from a war they started\u2014when and where did they ever stand firm?<\/p>\n

Since the war began, they climbed onto planes and visas, fleeing the country.
\nSo where did they stand firm? In hotels? In the furnished apartments gifted by the Dagalo family abroad?
\nOr in the golden villas on Abu Dhabi\u2019s shores, courtesy of their benefactor?<\/p>\n

Did they \u201cstand firm\u201d or just squeal and flee?<\/p>\n

There is no honor in pushing death away with disgrace,
\nAs one who warded it off once with shameful decorum.<\/p>\n

In which trench did they stand firm? In which city\u2014Omdurman? The massacred towns of Nyala, Ardamta, Wad Al-Noora? Or in the besieged, starving cities like El Fasher and Dilling?<\/p>\n

I might\u2019ve respected them if they had called their alliance \u201cSamoot\u201d (Silence)\u2014a name more truthful and fitting.
\nThey are silent about every crime committed by the militia that destroyed their country, homes, and families. Silent while their sisters are raped. Silent still.<\/p>\n

Look how they\u2019ve dared to abuse the language\u2014swapping a \u201cT\u201d for a \u201cD\u201d just to name themselves \u201cSumood.\u201d
\nIncredible! A kingdom of names in all the wrong places!
\nThey called themselves \u201cQa\u1e25\u1e6d\u201d\u2014they became barren.
\nThen \u201cTaqaddum\u201d\u2014yet regressed.
\nNow \u201cSumood\u201d\u2014though they fled and fell silent.
\nThey became barren\u2026 regressed\u2026 then silent\u2014until the sponsor allows them to speak.<\/p>\n

But just as a crown doesn’t dignify a clown, these new names can’t mask their emptiness.
\nEvery name was just another mask over the face of disgrace.<\/p>\n

(5)
\nTheir next dilemma: what slogan will they use?<\/p>\n

Suppose the war ends today, and \u201cSumood\u201d returns to Khartoum. What will they chant?<\/p>\n

\u201cJust fall, that\u2019s all\u201d (Tisqut Bas)?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solution is in the bellies\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cCrush every Islamist\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cFreedom, Peace, Justice\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will cross and prevail\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u201cEither your shroud or your homeland\u201d?<\/p>\n

All are slogans that have been exhausted\u2014no longer fit for human use, regardless of one\u2019s political blood type.<\/p>\n

Take \u201cJust fall, that\u2019s all\u201d\u2014the regime fell, indeed.
\nBut what did they do?<\/p>\n

They took power, plunged the country into war, and scattered its people into refugee camps and exile\u2014clinging to their own failure.
\nThat slogan is dead\u2014no one will chant it again.<\/p>\n

(6)
\n\u201cThe solution is in the bellies\u201d\u2014well, the country has now been completely devoured from end to end, and no solution has emerged.<\/p>\n

The only \u201cbellies\u201d the people care about now are the final consumption of the Janjaweed and their allies.<\/p>\n

(7)
\n\u201cFreedom, Peace, and Justice\u201d\u2014they betrayed all three.<\/p>\n

Freedom of expression was revoked with visa stamps (Sudani newspaper).<\/p>\n

Peace in Darfur? They opposed it\u2014and the people of Darfur retaliated.<\/p>\n

As for justice: their prisons overflowed with detainees held without charge or trial. Some died without ever facing a court.<\/p>\n

Even defendants on programs like \u201cLands & Lands\u201d weren\u2019t allowed a single comment\u2014let alone a fair trial.<\/p>\n

Ironically, within two years, they themselves were begging for justice\u2014after their military allies turned on them.
\nValues always avenge those who betray them. That\u2019s the lesson of history.<\/p>\n

Their fall wasn\u2019t just political\u2014it was moral. They stood over the ashes of burned villages, silent about the murdered, the raped, and the starved\u2014victims of their own allies.<\/p>\n

(8)
\n\u201cWe will cross and prevail\u201d\u2014they did, partially.<\/p>\n

Within four years of seizing power, they crossed the border, fleeing the country in shame.
\nThey did prevail\u2014in fleeing the nation, and in rallying international and regional hostility against it through lies and nonsense.<\/p>\n

(9)
\n\u201cCrush every Islamist\u201d? That\u2019s long gone\u2014not even in their dreams.<\/p>\n

Did they manage it before? Or was it just empty noise?<\/p>\n

The Islamists are now heroes in the eyes of the people\u2014fighting side by side with the army, singing patriotic songs, and sacrificing their lives.<\/p>\n

The same ones who once chanted to crush them now find themselves begging Americans, Janjaweed, and foreign sponsors for mercy.<\/p>\n

The Islamists are in Omdurman, in the trenches of Khartoum and Kordofan\u2014even at Darfur\u2019s edge\u2014while the \u201ccrushers\u201d are loitering in Addis Ababa, Kampala, and Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

While the Islamists are bleeding on the battlefield, they\u2019re in Nairobi and Addis issuing press releases condemning the army!<\/p>\n

Now Islamists stand shoulder-to-shoulder with soldiers. They bury their martyrs. Meanwhile, those who wanted to \u201ccrush\u201d them fled like rats.<\/p>\n

They can never again chant on the streets of Khartoum\u2014because Khartoum itself will answer back.<\/p>\n

It will ask: Where were you when the real battle raged and souls ascended to their Maker?<\/p>\n

We heard nothing from you\u2014no voice, no whisper.<\/p>\n

This land is not the same land you knew in 2018 or 2019. These alleys you betrayed will never betray the blood of martyrs.<\/p>\n

This soil, soaked with crimson in the battle for dignity, will reject you\u2014no matter your slogans\u2014as you once rejected it in its hour of agony.<\/p>\n

(10)
\n\u201cYour shroud or your homeland\u201d?<\/p>\n

When the time came for shrouds and sacrifice\u2014you fled.
\nWe didn\u2019t see you. Not you, nor your shrouds, among the martyrs of this nation.<\/p>\n

If only you would visit Jebel Sarkab, where the noble martyrs lie\u2014you\u2019d see row upon row of radiant youth, buried over kilometers.
\nThey gave their lives for the nation\u2014and couldn\u2019t even afford shrouds or burial plots.<\/p>\n

So tell me: With what face and with what chant will you return to the streets of Khartoum?<\/p>\n

And you, dear reader\u2014when you hear their chants again tomorrow\u2026
\nWill you respond to them?
\nOr will you remain silent, as they were, while your country burned?<\/p>\n

I just want to live long enough to witness their fate\u2014when they return triumphant, bearing the spoils of \u201cthe sponsor\u201d and the Janjaweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I See Adil El-Baz (1) I don\u2019t know why I feel a wave of depression every time I think about the predicament our brothers in \u201cSumood\u201d (“Steadfastness”) have landed in. Perhaps it\u2019s because some of them are friends or former students\u2014though some have betrayed, and others have simply failed. I\u2019m not referring to the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52255,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52254\/revisions\/52255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}