كفُّو عن الاستعلاء والتنمُّر علي دارفور: ضئالة نصيب دارفور من اتفاقية جوبا والحكم

Quote: More than 400,000 Darfuris fled violence last year in Darfur alone, according to the UN office in Sudan, and just this month more than 200 people were killed, hospitals were destroyed, and tens of thousands of already internally displaced people were again displaced by a new bout of violence around the West Darfur capital of El Geneina. Like before, the security services contend that this was a spontaneous combustion of violence stemming from ancient tribal disputes over land and ethnicity. To be sure, these grievances exist across Darfur and in myriad regions across the country. But it is the security services’ willingness to weaponize and militarize these fissures again and again for their own political and economic purposes that make them responsible for this latest round of violence, and not the antidote to it.In particular, firsthand accounts from burned villages and ransacked hospitals point to the active involvement of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), successor to the infamous Janjaweed Arab militia that conducted much of the scorched earth campaigns the region became infamous for, and which now counts itself as a legitimate part of the country’s security apparatus. Under the terms of the Juba Peace Agreement, notionally designed to address the region’s history of tribal and political violence, military and RSF units were charged with providing security since the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers more than a year ago.Instead, RSF forces are fomenting the violence and clearing large areas of internally displaced populations to reportedly make room for new gold mining operations, in which the head of the RSF and putative second in command of the military government, Mohamad Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, and his family, also have a financial stake.