Hemedti



 "Money is the man, and no pauper is highborn or respectable."

Alcaeus

"Wealth confuses birth"

Theognis


Yeah, yeah.  I admit it.  A video was recorded with me addressing Hamdan Dagalo.  Shortly after, it was sent straight to his personal phone.  I am not Yuri Avnery, the Israeli journalist who interviewed Yasser Arafat.  But I am Tammy Swofford.  Confident, and unafraid to stick my hand into a viper's nest to locate a story.  So let me just write a few thoughts regarding this man - this monster - who continues to strike his fellow Muslims and steal their futures, literally, right from under their very feet.

If money is the man, Hemedti just might be that man; neither highborn nor respectable. But with an ascendancy to power aided by what belongs to the Sudanese people.

He comes from a lineage of camel traders.  Unfortunately,  he is also cut from the same cloth as another brutal man, former Syrian President al Assad, whose original surname was al Wahsh which translates to "savage" or "wild beast".   And Hemedti is no certainly no different than the current president of Syria, a man who has not lost sleep over the man he beheaded years ago and and the many Christian's, Alawite's and Shi'a whom have been slaughtered since he took power.

In the case of Hemedti, it is "Gold is the man" because his iron grip over this resource which should belong to and benefit the Sudanese people allows him tremendous leverage.  He bought his way into power and intends to stay in power in the Darfur region by terrorizing the surrounding general population.

Russia is complicit because of Wagner Group and their logistical control and movement of the resource. There is a proverb that a lizard can be found in king's palaces.  And I have viewed the reptilian man who has lounged about in the palaces across the globe; and yeah - there he was in one of Putin's palaces too.

Gold. It is what keeps him in power.

I don't give a damn about our "special relationship" with the UAE.  They are the primary recipient for the illicit gold trade.  And while the current president has the look of a dissipated old homosexual, I also see what looks like a streak of cruelty in his features.  There is nothing much more cruel than the video I watched of poor rural Sudanese farmers being herded into a trench they had been forced to dig and then massacred in a hail of bullets. The RSF took their time with one man who managed to scramble out of the trench. They allowed him to run for a distance and then carefully took aim and dropped him to the ground.  Did I mention the usual "Allahu Akbar" as they killed their fellow Muslims?

Yep.  The stench comes right from the top:

https://x.com/Amgad_Fareid/status/1991858302196551821

https://x.com/hrw_ar/status/2059848702655615163

Let's block out the systematic torture of men and the abduction and rape of women by the RSF:

https://x.com/SudanPlusNews/status/2064066298569527464

So the UAE is complicit in the suffering which is ongoing in the Sudan.

Qatar is complicit.  Sudanese gold finds its way into their shops.    

Ethiopia is also guilty because the gold they receive allow them to build a training base for RSF renegades and keep a bit for themselves on the side.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ethiopia-builds-secret-camp-train-sudan-rsf-fighters-sources-say-2026-02-10/

I have seen too many images such as this one, of Ethiopian nationals pillaging the rural areas.  And then Chad is also receiving the spoils of war.



I have great love for the Sudanese people.  And with the focus on what is happening in the Middle East, it seems appropriate to remind us that "nuclear" isn't the only scary option facing the world.  In Sudan, it is the lust for gold which is destroying the nation.  Because it isn't just the one big blast which should concern us; rather the smaller blasts of violence which leave places like the Sudan strewn with the remains of their murdered population.



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