I’ve been meaning to share personal thoughts about #SudanCoup for a while, but the events of the past 3 months kept unfolding incessantly & the time was never right.
Every time I watch one of the marches against the junta, I envy the protesters & wish I was there, chanting ..1/
Every time I watch one of the marches against the junta, I envy the protesters & wish I was there, chanting ..1/
.. doing my bit as one of the people who absolutely, unequivocally fed up with military rule, after living through every type of it. I was born under 1969 Nimiri coup regime, grew up through the 1985 revolution, the transitional period led by the military, the brief fragile .. 2/
.. democracy of the late 80s & then came the #NCP coup & the islamist, fascist, kleptocratic regime that I spent most of my life under. What shocking is: I only lived 3 years without military rule. They weren’t the best years either. That period was a despicable display of ..3/
..the dysfunction of Sudanese politics & how preoccupied every party leadership was with seats & positions way more than their interest in serving the people & developing the country - kind of what we’ve all witnessed during the latest transitional period. I remember how the ..4/
..press used to be a ring for constant fighting, accusations & airing of dirty laundry of every type. It was hell & later on we discovered that it was deliberate, that many of the voices of divide were paving the way for the coming coup. We also heard testimonies from people..5/
..like Hassan al-Turabi who admitted to planning the coup for years in advance & recruiting military officers. Even the 1985 transitional period was part of the upcoming overhaul. Many are more than happy to defend Swar al-Dahab but he threw the .. 6/
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.. country at the mercy of KSA & Qatar & there’re some testimonies that they were involved in the preparations for the upcoming coup. I better that Swar al-Dahab wasn’t interested in ruling the country, but he was an islamist. I heard people describe him as Sufi but the crazy..7/
.. Wahhabis who consider Sufi muslims infidels will never care that much for him if he didn’t share their views. May he rest in peace, this has always bugged me. The king even let him be buried in the holiest of spots for muslims.
Anyway..
When I look back- now that I’m old-..8/
Anyway..
When I look back- now that I’m old-..8/
..& try to evaluate which era was “better” i.e. I was the happiest during, it dawned on me that I can only remember the downside. When I was a kid, life was like Syria or N Korea - I mean outside my home, at school & such. It was all about “the leader”. I still remember the ..9/
..songs we had to learn at school & a schoolbook on patriotism. I’m grateful that I have a family who taught me critical thinking, to have opinions & to voice those thoughts no matter what, otherwise I would’ve turned into another Nimiri zombie who-to this day- are nostalgic..10/
Older people told me that when I get older I will only remember the good times, but there was no real good times under dictatorships. If you manage to sail along unscathed, someone you care about is suffering so you can’t really enjoy life as you are supposed to.
I wasn’t ..11/
I wasn’t ..11/
..one of the lucky ones, though I was luckier than many. I had firsthand experience of the NISS unlawful arrests & interrogations. At some point I wasn’t even sure if they’d let me finish my education, but decades later I look back & put myself on the right spot of the ..12/
.. spectrum & admit it was nothing compared to what others around me have experienced.
I’m fed up with #SudanCoup (besides the obvious reasons) because I don’t have thirty more years to wait on another revolution. This recurring nightmare has to end now.
It’s really .. 13/
I’m fed up with #SudanCoup (besides the obvious reasons) because I don’t have thirty more years to wait on another revolution. This recurring nightmare has to end now.
It’s really .. 13/
..frustrating when the whole world feels upside down & nothing makes sense. I’ve never imagined in a million people that #Hemeti will be accepted as a legitimate “general” & visited by dignitaries or even thought of as the Vice President of Sudan like the IGAD guy did. .14/
I think we’re living in the worst of times. Politicians have always been hypocritical, but they used to have shame, they work hard to be consistent. Not anymore! The quality of the people who are in charge at the top level is at its lowest. This is also the time when the .. 15/
..grassroots organizing is at its best, so I still have hope for the world. If we disregard the extremists & the willfully ignorant, there’s enough energy to fix everything.
So all I ask of the int’l community reg #SudanCoup is to do nothing if it can’t do the right thing. 16/
So all I ask of the int’l community reg #SudanCoup is to do nothing if it can’t do the right thing. 16/
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