Evening Thoughts on the Sudan


The calm and the superficial of Sudan can be found here:

 https://x.com/TSC_SUDAN

The face of Sudanese leadership here,  visiting North Kordofan state.





But if "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" applies, (then) what happens in the air-conditioned salons of the Gulf States,  China,  and Russia also stays within these salons-of-conversation to reach out and effect the reality of what Sudan has become.

We can hunt Hemedti until the cows come home.  The Sudanese can then send the man off with a hearty "Good riddance".  But another will take his place.  Oh wait! I see a pattern here.  Former President Omar al Bashir was chased out of his palace.  My concern when this happened was that a more virulent human being would allocate the space, because space hates a vacuum.  That vacuum was quickly filled.

And then there are the multiple of "others" who control Sudan; and they are smart enough not to live within the nightmarish landscape which is required  for the fulfillment of their own dreams. Sudan is not controlled from within the borders, but outside its borders. This is the simple truth.

Meanwhile, this is Sudan on the ground:

"I am a computer engineering graduate looking for a company or any entity to work with to gain experience, even if without a salary, in Khartoum."  

This is dire enough. The poverty and lack of opportunity is relentless.  But it is much worse.  I cannot allow myself to post the video of a crawling baby moving across the corpse of his mother who has been shot.  Why doesn't Mommy wake up?  She is one of the many casualties of the management of Sudan from topside and outside the borders. The masters of their fates?  You will never know their names.

* I have interviewed this man in the past:

https://x.com/Aleisir

https://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.com/2023/05/06/the-sudan-interviews-with-izzeldean-elhassan-mohamed-u-s-and-khalid-ali-london/

And I continue to be deeply concerned for the Sudanese people.  They in my thoughts tonight. And they have been etched on my heart for many years now.


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