Very important points raised in this sobering article. I’m grateful to have read it and to reflect about where I live and what I may be taking for granted. I can’t imagine living in those conditions, and it’s a credit to those who bring it to light.
Humans can be so devastating to each other and the conflict in Sudan demonstrates this well. Civilians are chess piece pawns in both “sophisticated” and “guerrilla” warfare.
Of course Sudan lacks the luxury of the propaganda war that benefits the attention given to Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza. Nonetheless, it’s always a humanitarian crisis. It’s always this incomprehensible and devastating experience for some man, woman, father, mother or child.
Thanks to the author for the research and writing. “Blessed are those who thirst”.
Thanks, and yeah having a baby it is heartbreaking what parents go through in all of these situations. I actually forgot to say in all of this that the only infant formula factory in the country has hit with a mortar and burnt down. The horrors are endless.
The whole messaging issue is strange, I think to an extent both sides want it to go unnoticed. Dagalo himself has enough money to run a massive propaganda campaign if he was so inclined but sticks to limited and meticulous messaging about human rights and international law. To hear him, well, whoever runs his twitter page, tell it they are trying to turn Sudan into a Jeffersonian democracy.
The thing is it really is true that basically everyone in the west and south has only ever been abused by the Sudanese state...or at best employed by them to abuse others. It would be a serious challenge for anyone to get the peripheral peoples to buy in to the state which they have never had any reason to trust.
Right, they are trying to survive. They are hanging between two thieves. In survival, who has time or token for what the state or its antagonists have to say? The way one party preaches human rights while the other preaches sovereignty is pablum.
"The leaders in the cities made the fairesytprofessions: on the one side with the cry of political equality of the People, on the other of a moderate aristrocracy; but they sought prizes for themselves in those public interests which they pretended to cherish and, stopping at nothing in their struggles for ascendancy, engaged in direct excesses." - Thucydides [3.82.8]
This is a good overview, and introduction. Maybe 200-300 word zesty but informative follow-on about single events will capture more readers. At the bottom, link to this every time.
Jesus Christ, there have been more vicious wars than this among people all over the world many times throughout history, that is an insane thing to say, beyond which Sudan was in fact building great monuments when northern Europeans were living in caves
degenerate compared to what? The West where promoting sodomy is a key foreign policy concern? And the point is it is insane to call them savages just because Europe happens to be in a short period of relative peace after centuries of war. In fact, the Sudanese people have not at all given into savagery compared to what happened in Yugoslavia just 30 years ago. Any of our societies could easily fall into worse levels of barbarism in our lifetimes and maybe if we don't behave like monsters in the face of immense human suffering someone would care enough to help us if that happens.
Very important points raised in this sobering article. I’m grateful to have read it and to reflect about where I live and what I may be taking for granted. I can’t imagine living in those conditions, and it’s a credit to those who bring it to light.
Humans can be so devastating to each other and the conflict in Sudan demonstrates this well. Civilians are chess piece pawns in both “sophisticated” and “guerrilla” warfare.
Of course Sudan lacks the luxury of the propaganda war that benefits the attention given to Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza. Nonetheless, it’s always a humanitarian crisis. It’s always this incomprehensible and devastating experience for some man, woman, father, mother or child.
Thanks to the author for the research and writing. “Blessed are those who thirst”.
Thanks, and yeah having a baby it is heartbreaking what parents go through in all of these situations. I actually forgot to say in all of this that the only infant formula factory in the country has hit with a mortar and burnt down. The horrors are endless.
The whole messaging issue is strange, I think to an extent both sides want it to go unnoticed. Dagalo himself has enough money to run a massive propaganda campaign if he was so inclined but sticks to limited and meticulous messaging about human rights and international law. To hear him, well, whoever runs his twitter page, tell it they are trying to turn Sudan into a Jeffersonian democracy.
The thing is it really is true that basically everyone in the west and south has only ever been abused by the Sudanese state...or at best employed by them to abuse others. It would be a serious challenge for anyone to get the peripheral peoples to buy in to the state which they have never had any reason to trust.
Right, they are trying to survive. They are hanging between two thieves. In survival, who has time or token for what the state or its antagonists have to say? The way one party preaches human rights while the other preaches sovereignty is pablum.
"The leaders in the cities made the fairesytprofessions: on the one side with the cry of political equality of the People, on the other of a moderate aristrocracy; but they sought prizes for themselves in those public interests which they pretended to cherish and, stopping at nothing in their struggles for ascendancy, engaged in direct excesses." - Thucydides [3.82.8]
I've guilt that I don't cover all conflicts, so I much appreciate your essential post.
Yeah its hard to get people to care abouy Sudan, how my articles on it perform reflects that as well
This is a good overview, and introduction. Maybe 200-300 word zesty but informative follow-on about single events will capture more readers. At the bottom, link to this every time.
I'm supposed to have an interview next week that will hopefully have a decent audience so there is that at least
Jesus Christ, there have been more vicious wars than this among people all over the world many times throughout history, that is an insane thing to say, beyond which Sudan was in fact building great monuments when northern Europeans were living in caves
degenerate compared to what? The West where promoting sodomy is a key foreign policy concern? And the point is it is insane to call them savages just because Europe happens to be in a short period of relative peace after centuries of war. In fact, the Sudanese people have not at all given into savagery compared to what happened in Yugoslavia just 30 years ago. Any of our societies could easily fall into worse levels of barbarism in our lifetimes and maybe if we don't behave like monsters in the face of immense human suffering someone would care enough to help us if that happens.
so you just didn't read the article at all