Faisal Awad Hassan
2026 / 2 / 14
At a time when Islamists and their instruments Al-Burhan, Hemeti, the Freedom and Change Coalition (FFC), and so-called armed movements execute one of the most sinister chapters in modern Sudanese history, moving from stage to stage with cold calculation, the Sudanese people wander in slumber. We step into traps carefully laid for us, sometimes marching willingly into battles designed to erase us politically, socially, morally.
We -dir-ect our anger at shadows while the architects of ruin walk freely. Instead of holding accountable those who destroyed the state, hijacked the revolution, and lit the flames of war, we quarrel over trivialities, distractions crafted by their media machines: fragile personalities, hollow debates, imaginary battles, diversions in the form of singers, sheikhs, activists. We shout at each other while our country is plundered, dismantled, and reshaped according to the Islamist blue-print- old, yet reborn.
We have not paused to reflect since December 2018. We have not asked: Who betrayed us? Who colluded? Who changed allegiances with the wind? Who crushed the dream of change?
The War Was Planned, Not Fought by Chance
This war is no accident. It is no spontaneous eruption, nor a mere clash between generals. It is a war designed, executed with intention, orchestrated by Islamists, managed behind closed doors, carried out by their instruments according to role and rank.
From the first week, it was clear documented, undeniable that the declared fronts were facades. The goals were ruthless:
1. Crush popular will through death, hunger, and displacement, turning citizens into mere survivors.
2. -restore- Islamists openly to power, after years of in-dir-ect rule via military and Janjaweed alliances.
3. Complete the “Hamdi triangle”: dismantle Sudan, plunder its wealth, redraw it as weak, warring fragments.
Where Are We Now?
Look around. The people are exhausted. The revolution aborted. The state shattered. The nation marches toward total disintegration. Only the East, the far North, and a few regions remain. Yet many Sudanese remain indifferent, distracted by trivialities, justifying´-or-defending what cannot be defended. Some openly call for division, echoing rhetoric Islamists proposed in 2005 a rhetoric once rejected, now repackaged as (practical) the final stage of a crime in progress.
Center and Periphery: A Poisoned Myth
One of the most dangerous tools Islamists planted is the “center and periphery” narrative not because Sudan lacks social roots, but because it fractures awareness.
Questions no one asks:
• What is the center?
• Who created it, who composes it?
• Who really ruled Sudan since independence?
The truth: rulers came from every region. Failure was political, moral, not geographic. Yet we flee into identity conflicts because they are easier than confronting the real culprits. We defend our oppressors for familiarity and attack our victims for difference, reducing politics to tribal loyalty rather than national project.
Al-Burhan and Hemeti: Actors in a Single Play
The supposed rift between supporters of al-Burhan, Hemeti, their allies in the FFC, and the so-called armed movements is not awareness it is deception. Both men are instruments of Islamists, executing different roles in the same plan.
Khartoum, Darfur, Kordofan, Blue Nile, now the East. Same pattern: deliberate withdrawal, civilians abandoned, massacres committed, silence. In the East, al-Burhan opened the gates to foreign mercenaries, aiding Eritrean forces under the guise of fighting Janjaweed, fully aware that they would threaten public peace and target indigenous Sudanese. This is betrayal at the highest order, demanding accountability, not defense.
Hemeti’s crimes are documented, vast, cumulative. Yet the FFC, under multiple labels, continue to support, defend, and politically recycle him, invoking “victimhood,” while Sudanese remain fragmented, as if memory itself has been wiped clean.
We are not lacking courage. We lack memory. We forgive blindly, recycle failure under new names, fail to read our history, fail to connect events. We fall into the same traps repeatedly, and then wonder why.
The Truth We Must Speak
No one will save Sudan but Sudanese. Not neighbors, not so-called “brothers,” not the international community, not mediators.
The Only Path Forward
The road to freedom, liberation, and salvaging what remains of our country must begin with:
• Broad grassroots organization, independent of all existing structures.
• A new national leadership, untested, upright, incorruptible.
• Uproot Islamists and all their political and military tools, without exception.
Sudan is not collapsing because its people are weak it collapses because its awareness is absent. Salvation requires a total break with all who shared´-or-legitimized power, and independent grassroots organization led by new leadership. Betting on outsiders´-or-recycling perpetrators only completes the crime. We will be its sole victims.
Sudan must awaken before the last fragment is lost.
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