A former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students Union leader in Sudan has began a peace initiative to carry the warring sides to resolve their variations by means of dialogue. Khalid Abdallah Abdelwahab who was a part of the JNU campus life in the early 2000s stated neither the leader of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti” nor the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah Al Burhan was as highly effective as they appeared and the worldwide neighborhood should enhance strain on them to carry dialogue.
“Both Hemedti and General Burhan have done many wrong things that have hurt the average Sudanese and they do not have public support of the kind that they claim to have. International community is doing the right thing by removing citizens of foreign countries but removing foreign citizens will not end the conflict, and the need of the hour is for the big powers like the U.S. and Russia to support a peace initiative,” stated Mr. Abdelwahab, who at the moment works as a Political Affairs Officer in the British Embassy in Khartoum.
Mr. Abdelwahab was a well-liked determine among the many college students on campus and was a member of the student council in the School of International Studies in JNU throughout 2006-2007. He together with different civil society activists, academics and journalists are reaching out to all sections of the Sudanese society to construct strain for dialogue and produce the warfare to an finish.
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Mr. Abdelwahab is amongst those that imagine that beneath the obvious battle over energy between two wings of the armed forces lies the faultlines of tribal societies of Sudan and cautioned that the current battle may rapidly spiral right into a tribal massacre which might grow to be a far better tragedy. He stated there have been frequent tribes between Sudan and different neighbouring international locations and any atrocities on the members of those tribes may set off a much bigger disaster and added, “The Masalit tribe in western Sudan also exists in Chad and the Chadian military may get involved if there are attacks on this tribe in Sudan.”
The warning concerning the outbreak of inter-ethnic warfare is a well timed reminder of the delicate situation of the Sudanese society as there are already reviews that the non-Arab Masalits are being attacked by the primarily Arab Sudanese militias. “People are killing each other in different parts of the country and the conflict between two groups of the armed forces can reignite tribal warfare in Darfur which has a history of similar conflicts,” stated Mr. Abdelwahab.
