The Independent: Hamidty talks about genocide, gold, and foreign wars

The Independent newspaper correspondent, Bill True, conducted a meeting that she described as rare for foreign media with Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo "Hamidati", Vice President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, on the crimes accused of his militia and a future partnership with Britain.

True, the clothes Hamidati showed during the meeting in his home in Khartoum carried an unmistakable message, he wore "traditional Sudanese robes" and the turban, instead of a paramilitary commander accused of raping and killing protesters in Khartoum and committing genocide in Darfur.

The writer says this is a subtle shift from previous appearances before and after the ouster of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir last April, when Hamidati was wearing his distinctive military clothes.

The man that everyone fears
The correspondence continues to describe Hamidati and his surroundings to say that those days are over, as have his offices that were overseeing a base on the outskirts of the capital Khartoum for the rapid support forces he leads. Instead, Hamidati was sitting at home on a shaded blue and gold sofa.

She said that at the beginning of the interview, the man who was afraid of all was quick to urge Britain to establish a partnership with his "Rapid Support Forces", citing the supposed efforts of these forces to combat irregular migration to Europe.

Hamidati claimed that the ruling is not one of his priorities, and I swear that he is an ordinary and simple Sudanese citizen with no authority. "He said it in a patriarchal, soft voice, like the voice of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and spread it in the region," she added.

Bloody history
Hamidati said he wanted to assure the British people that the change in Sudan is real despite the difficulties here and there "but they are all being addressed."

True, he said, he wants to present himself as a "protector of the revolution", but the Rapid Support Forces he leads have a bloody history in Darfur and continue to this day to kill in eastern Jebel Marra in the same region, and are accused of carrying out attacks against Sudanese protesters in the cities of central and northern Sudan.

Hamidati denied these accusations, saying, "There is a systematic targeting of the Rapid Support Forces by the defunct regime," and he described these forces as the Darfur guards and the protectors of the revolution, asking "Who is currently protecting Darfur? Who is protecting the internally displaced? Who will compensate them? Who will restore the rights of people stolen to them?" ?, To respond in a low voice, "We are the ones who do this," stressing that their top priority is the success of the civilian government.

Accuses elements of the previous regime
He also said that his forces were exposed to traps and "unspeakable provocations," adding that those who committed the horrific attacks in the capital against the protesters were tucked in to pretend they were from the Rapid Support Forces, noting that breaking up the sit-in in front of the General Command was a coup, and he continued announcing that at least 200 people They had been arrested on charges of impersonating his men in an attempt to discredit his forces, adding that they found some officers enrolled in the Rapid Support Forces affiliated with the old regime responsible for breaking up the sit-in.

Barbed gold theme
Hamiditi seemed keen to address the thorny issue of gold in Sudan, and he had previously, just a few days after al-Bashir removed from the authority, claimed during a televised address that he deposited a billion dollars in the Sudanese Central Bank obtained from the gold trade and what the Gulf states paid to the rapid support forces fighting in To whom.

The Independent stated that the company affiliated with the family of Daglo "the Hamidati family" and its name "Al-Junaid Company" has sparked a series of investigations, as it works in areas ranging from transportation and construction to mining management in Darfur and South Kordofan, all of which are guarded by the Rapid Support Forces, and it is said that the Al-Junaid company transports a lot of Gold bars to Dubai.

Hamidati underestimated his relationship to the gold rush in the country, and he tried in this interview, as Tru says, to show himself that he is a national who pays taxes, zakat and fees and has "partnerships" and "shares" in companies, and that this is independent of the work of the Rapid Support Forces, and he denied To have mines, confirming that he only has Jabal Amer and some partnerships with others.