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two main character generals of the sudan war


The war in Sudan, which is not going to subside, the migrant workers in the country, we are already starting to get nervous about this war (Friday 21 April 2023) in Sudan.

This very tense country makes the migrant workers

The rumble of explosions, the ceiling darkened by black smoke, plus the fear and uncertainty that surrounds when bullets and rockets fly.

Life in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and in many other parts of the country, suddenly took a dramatic turn for the worse.

There are two generals at the heart of this crisis: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, head of the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The two generals used to work together, staged joint coups, but now their battle for supremacy is destroying Sudan.


Both played key roles in Darfur rebel groups in the civil war in western Sudan that began in 2003. General Burhan controls the Sudanese army in Darfur. Hemedti is the commander of one of the many Arab militia groups, known as the Janjaweed, which the government has used to brutally crush Darfur's mainly non-Arab rebel groups. Majak D'Agoot was then Deputy Director of the National Intelligence and Security Services, before he became deputy defense minister in South Sudan when the territory seceded in 2011.

He met Generals Burhan and Hemedti in Darfur, and said they had worked well together .

However, he told the BBC he saw little sign the pair would rise to the top in the state. Hemedti was simply a militia leader who “played a counter-insurgency role, assisting the military”, whereas General Burhan was a career soldier, although “with all the ambition of the Sudanese officer corps anything is possible”.

The military has controlled most of Sudan's post-independence history. The government's tactic in Darfur, once described by Sudan expert Alex de Waal as “cheap counter-insurgency”, uses regular troops, ethnic militias and air power to fight the rebels – with little or no regard for civilian casualties.

The situation in Darfur has been described as the first genocide of the 21st century. The Janjaweed have been accused of ethnic cleansing and of committing mass rape as a weapon of war.

Hemedti eventually becomes the commander of the group described as the Janjaweed wing,
Hemedti's strength grew massively once she began supplying troops to fight for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. Sudan's military ruler at the time, Omar al-Bashir, relied on Hemedti and the RSF as a counterweight to the regular armed forces, hoping it would be too difficult for any armed group to topple him.

Ultimately, after months of protests, the generals banded together to overthrow Bashir in April 2019. Later that year, they signed an agreement with the protesters to form a civilian government overseen by the Council of Sovereigns, a joint civilian body. -the military in which General Burhan is the leader and Hemedti is his deputy. That situation persisted for two years, until October 2021, when the military attacked and took power for themselves. General Burhan is back as head of state and Hemedti is back as his deputy.

Siddig Tower Kafi was a civilian member of the Sovereign Council, and met regularly with the two generals. He said he saw no signs of discord until after the 2021 coup. "General Burhan started to return Islamists and former members of the regime to their old positions," Siddig told the BBC.

"It is clear that General Burhan's plan is to return the old regime of Omar al-Bashir to power." Siddig says that it was around this time that Hemedti started having doubts, as he felt Bashir's cronies never fully trusted him.

Sudan's political landscape has always been dominated by elites mostly from ethnic groups based around Khartoum and the Nile River. Meanwhile, Hemedti is from Darfur.

The Sudanese elite often speak of him and his soldiers in condescending tones, such as being called "lodges" who are unfit to rule the country.

Over the past two or three years, he has tried to position himself as a national figure, and even as a representative of marginalized groups.

He tried to forge alliances with the rebel groups in Darfur and South Kordofan that he had previously been tasked with destroying. He also regularly talks about the need for democracy, even though his own troops have brutally put down civil society protests in the past.

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