Calling It a Fight Between the Generals Is Simplistic: Sudan
attack on the city by the Darfuri armed group, the Justice and Equality Movement). This time around, people watched fighting breaking out in Khartoum on TV screens in real time.
What is taking place in the capital city reflects an accumulation of political, social, and economic grievances against the state. Under military or civilian rule, Northern and Central Sudanese elites have always been in charge of the state. To refer to it as a fight between two generals would be oversimplifying things.The Sudanese Armed Forces in their present condition, and the Rapid Support Forces are products of the Islamist regime of Omer al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for thirty years .
Under al-Bashir, the SAF was purged of its professional officers and high-ranking generals. The current generals, including al-Burhan, were promoted based on their loyalty to Islamist ideology, and to Omer al-Bashir. Though broadly reflecting the face of the nation, the army's top brass remains loyal to the Islamist party of the previous regime. Omer al-Bashir's regime may have fallen in 2019, but its army and security remained intact.
The RSF is an offshoot of the notorious Janjaweed Militia, formed in 2003 to quell a rebellion in Darfur against the central government. The SAF Air Force razed villages to the ground; the militia attacked the people on the ground. The main force behind the Janjaweed were the Arab pastoralists, who fought with the non-Arab Darfurian farmers for grazing resources -- a conflict that perhaps climate change has made more pronounced.
The RSF was established in 2013 as a legal entity and parallel military force under Hemedti. Al-Burhan was one of the military officers who trained the RSF. Later, its soldiers served as border guards,
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