SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian - The military crackdown in Sudan lays bare the dark heart of Bashir’s regime
Nesrine Malik argues that the Sudanese revolution is fighting against “Omar Al Bashir’s government distilled into its essential parts,” citing the networks of patronage “with too much to lose,” militias that have “grown too large to disband,” and “dirty” deals with regional allies “too important to jettison.”
Malik notes how Al Bashir’s regime created the RSF, “an entire parallel security infrastructure outside the army,” with the RSF and the military’s alliances with Gulf powers “[representing] another front against the Sudanese revolution.” Malik suggests that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE “at least blessed” this week’s massacre.
Malik concludes that “the Sudanese remain alone,” arguing that the international community, which “has left Sudan hobbled” by sanctions and isolation, “will only issue the usual boilerplate condemnations of violence.”