Leila Al-Shami"Between Ukraine and Gaza, Sudan is hardly in the news. The few media depictions of the war paint a picture of yet another bleak African conflict, yet another hopeless story of starving Africans, of in-fighting, of mass death. But it’s important to emphasize that this war is not a civil war ... it’s a counter-revolutionary war, instigated by two criminal generals against each other and against a defenseless civilian population."
Earthworm 🐌The EU_ "But it is not our fault that corrupt Sudanese Generals started a horrible civil war."
Fatin Abbas: "But I’m also angry at an international community—including the EU—which tacitly legitimized these known war criminals in the transition to democracy. Sudanese civil society warned from the beginning of the post-Bashir transition that neither Hemedti nor Burhan could be trusted or included in ruling. “No negotiation, no partnership, no legitimation” was the motto of civil society groups. But Hemedti and Burhan remained in place largely because the US, Britain, the EU and Middle Eastern powers validated them in the transition to democratic rule, a transition that the generals then proceeded to sabotage and destroy."
"I’m also incensed at Ursula von der Leyen and an EU leadership that is sending billions of Euros to autocratic regimes in North Africa and the Middle East—to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya—to crack down on desperate refugees fleeing war before they reach Europe. With the help of EU funds, refugees are being dumped in the desert to die of thirst and starvation. People are dying in Sudan and dying trying to get out."
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