Seize the opportunity in Sudan

Sudan's democratic transition is an exceptional historic event despite the uncertainty of its future, and an opportunity that the international community should use by supporting the aspirations of the Sudanese people for a democratic transition, the Washington Post reported in an article by University Professor Rebecca Hamilton.

Hamilton said the democratic openness achieved by the brave protesters who overthrew President Omar al-Bashir's regime after three decades in power and then managed to engage civilian leaders in power is a historic event no less important than the fall of the Berlin Wall and should not be underestimated.

She pointed out that the presence of General Mohamed Hamdan Daqlo (nicknamed Humaidi) - former leader of the Janjaweed militias that destroyed communities in Darfur, and committed a massacre to break up the pro-democracy sit-in last June - within the sovereign council, which leads the country during the transitional period, is beyond doubt. To doubt the possibility of eliminating the democratic path under his leadership.

However, the presence of Humaidati in the Council did not prevent the Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdouk, who was chosen by the forces of freedom and change, from forming a government capable (technocrats) is the most diverse in the history of Sudan.

Genocide
Hamilton, a professor at the American University School of Law in Washington and author of The Struggle for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop the Genocide, made the remarks at a session of the UN Human Rights Council in New Sudan. Geneva recently, in which he believed that "peace can be achieved only if we deal with the root causes of Sudan's wars of state marginalization of the parties."

She said hearing a government official speaking openly about the marginalization of the parties was unusual for Sudanese and Sudanese followers.

Hamilton explained that the situation of democracy in Sudan is still fragile, where the pillars that supported the rule of Bashir still exist, and that the failure of the fragile democratic experiment is still possible if we return to the facts of history, where the military has toppled three democratic governments since the independence of Sudan in 1956.

The fragility of the experience should not lead the international community to hesitate to support the new government or wait for the democratization process to complete, and the time has come to do everything possible to support the aspirations of the Sudanese people for a democratic transition.