{"id":6008,"date":"2023-11-27T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6008"},"modified":"2023-11-30T07:02:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:02:56","slug":"culture-and-the-melee-why-is-the-sudan-war-passed-over-in-the-world-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/27\/culture-and-the-melee-why-is-the-sudan-war-passed-over-in-the-world-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture\u00a0and the\u00a0melee: Why is the\u00a0Sudan\u00a0war\u00a0passed\u00a0over\u00a0in the\u00a0world?\u00a0 (1-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Abdullah Ali Ibrahim<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Many commentators are agreed that\u00a0Sudan<\/span>\u2019s\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0is little mentioned in the\u00a0world<\/span>.\u00a0 Some of them attribute this neglect in terms of the context to the ongoing wars surrounding it in Ukraine and Gaza.\u00a0 Others attribute this negligence to global and regional powers standing behind this\u00a0war<\/span>, even if in good faith, out of ignorance about the realities in the\u00a0Sudan<\/span>.\u00a0 Most of this criticism focused on America and its role in the transitional period for democracy that ensued following the December 2018 revolution, to the extent that journalist Edward Wong and others accused it, in an article in the New York Times, of \u201cnaivety\u201d.<\/div>\n
Alex de Waal, on the other hand, said that America failed to handle the issue, either way good or bad.\u00a0 Justin Lynch of the New York Times charged that the confused efforts exerted to integrated the (Rapid Support) into the armed forces, as delegated to mediator of lower diplomatic caliber, have in fact led to the\u00a0war<\/span><\/div>\n
The American and European efforts to bring in democracy to the\u00a0Sudan<\/span>\u00a0have not only failed, but they further dragged\u00a0Sudan<\/span>\u00a0to total collapse as well<\/div>\n
However, the matter is more complicated. Whether it is true to accuse the\u00a0world<\/span>\u00a0of starting this\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0out of negligence or not. According to Williamson, author of \u201cMilitary Strategy and Effectiveness\u201d,\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0is an extremely complex endeavor.\u00a0 Nothing like it in terms of being eager to invoke thought and morality to achieve its goal.\u00a0 This is what von Clausewitz said two centuries ago about the need for\u00a0war<\/span>, like every complex task, for capable minds who retain, in the darkest hour, some glimmer of inner light that illuminates the path to truth, and then the courage to follow this little light wherever it leads you.<\/div>\n
In simple words,\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0is a\u00a0culture<\/span>\u00a0in and outside the battle field, and here is the core of the\u00a0Sudan<\/span>\u00a0war<\/span>. The meanings of this deadly\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0are absent from us and from the\u00a0world<\/span>\u00a0because the Sudanese elite are busy with the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0of their parties on the right and left.\u00a0 The first of this elite\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0the mutual accusations about who, not the two armies, started this\u00a0war<\/span>.\u00a0 They fought, and are still engaged in it, their\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0about the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0in the field\u00a0over<\/span>\u00a0the media, even though either of them claimed to start the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0is above\u00a0 their payment grade, as the English saying goes.<\/div>\n
To prove the crime of\u00a0war<\/span>, one against the other, they were tried with circumstantial evidence at best, if not out of releasing out historical anger between these two bulls, who have made their dispute since early times, the demand of the Sudanese politics and its ultimate objectives. This marginal role of the elite in the field\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0is a bitter result of the prolongation of the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0in\u00a0Sudan<\/span>\u00a0since its independence in 1956. The most serious consequence of its prolongation is that the civilian elites have become a major political loss.\u00a0 We did not have the intellectual with an all-round vision who, in Edward Said\u2019s definition, shouts the truth and seizes the rest of the opposition without mercy. The\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0and the drying up of civil society imposed a situation in which the intellectual has become a dependency on the military parties to the\u00a0war<\/span>.<\/div>\n
This is the situation seen up-to-date.\u00a0 The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) blame the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0on the Islamists (Al-Kizan), which strengthens, whether they wanted it or not, the Rapid Support Forces\u2019 argument that they are the party that the army attacked, while Al-Kizan blame the \u201cFFC\u201d for starting the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0therefore strengthen the army\u2019s argument as being a victim of the Rapid Support aggression.\u00a0 This intense clash with each other reached an unfortunate extent, as each of them prepared a list of names from the other party to receive their deserved punishment on Victory Day.<\/div>\n
These Elites battles stripped the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0of its meaning until it appeared to the\u00a0world<\/span>\u00a0as a fatal conflict between two \u201cgenerals\u201d hungry for power.\u00a0 The issues that the\u00a0war<\/span>\u00a0challenged the Sudanese existence did not find a place in our elite\u2019s discourse.\u00a0 The positions of alignment against or with one of the two armies (or even neutrality) did not produce knowledge surrounding these challenges with which we could illuminate the darkness.\u00a0 These are challenges to our image of what the modern nation-state looks like, and the professional army in it, which Samuel Huntington said that it is specialized in \u201cmanaging violence.\u201d\u00a0 These challenges also related to the post-colonial national state and the circulation of power and wealth within it.\u00a0 The regional scope is affected by the deterioration of its environments and the migrations that did not know the \u201cpassport\u201d in a famous Sudanese song.<\/div>\n
The discourse of the elite circumvented and avoided dealing with the most fundamental issues in the\u00a0war<\/span>, such as the status of the army in the modern national state.\u00a0 The FFC does not see in our army what makes it occupy a state for managing violence in such a state. FFC has two arguments for stripping the army of its status in\u00a0Sudan<\/span>, the first of which is that it is merely a “Kizan militia, which the Islamists transformed into this capacity during the three-decade rule of the Ignaz.\u00a0 Therefore, no body mourn him who kills himself as the Sudanese saying goes.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0(to be continued)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Abdullah Ali Ibrahim Many commentators are agreed that\u00a0Sudan\u2019s\u00a0war\u00a0is little mentioned in the\u00a0world.\u00a0 Some of them attribute this neglect in terms of the context to the ongoing wars surrounding it in Ukraine and Gaza.\u00a0 Others attribute this negligence to global and regional powers standing behind this\u00a0war, even if in good faith, out of ignorance about …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6008","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\/6008","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=6008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6009,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6008\/revisions\/6009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}