KHARTOUM - Deputy Chairman of the Sovereign Council, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti), returned to Khartoum yesterday, Wednesday, from El Geneina in the Darfur region, after spending 52 days there, calling for what he called an end to "security chaos" and tribal conflicts, but the witness is that the fall

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The victims did not stop during his stay there.

The spokesman for the General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur, Adam Rujal, counts for Al Jazeera Net the death toll between 50 and 60 people during more than 50 days that Hemeti spent moving between the metropolises and villages of the region.

Last week alone, 5 soldiers were killed when a patrol carrying them was attacked near Golo in Jebel Marra in Central Darfur state, and 18 Sudanese shepherds were killed by gunmen.

The Deputy Chairman of the Sovereignty Council told reporters upon his arrival at Khartoum airport that he will return after 10 days to the Darfur region through a tour that includes most of its five states.

Tribal reconciliation

The second man in power seemed to bet on tribal reconciliations, as he told reporters that he had succeeded in concluding 4 reconciliation agreements between the Darfur tribes, and on the way to a fifth reconciliation between Masalit and Arabs in West Darfur, a conflict that has been recurring for two years, leaving hundreds dead, wounded and thousands displaced.

But the Director of the Peace Research Center at the University of Khartoum, Manzoul Asal, told Al Jazeera Net that reconciliations that remained the preferred solution for governments are not feasible because they do not address the roots of the problem and follow the wrong approach in containing this type of problem.

Asal believes that the past reconciliations now will result in disasters, in light of the killing of hundreds each time without anyone being brought to trial, which encourages the unruly to commit more crimes and violations, as he put it.

He describes the uninterrupted succession of reconciliations between tribes and the outbreak of tribal fighting as "laughing at the beards", and he explains that the government is not serious about solving easily predictable problems, which requires stopping reconciliations that waste time and resources, and adopting the submission of anyone involved in crimes to the judiciary.

Hemeti's Challenge

Although Hemeti arrived in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, on June 18, to closely follow up on ending the lawlessness - according to what he said at the time - the troubled region since 2003 has not subsided in the pace of unrest.

Adam Rujal points out that the continued occurrence of crimes has nothing to do with Hemedti's presence in Darfur or not, because they are systematic violations involving militias affiliated with the state, and it is very normal for the killing, rape and torture to continue, which began in 2003, according to him.

"Hemedti will not be able to stop the crimes, because the unarmed militias are affiliated with him, and the lack of justice encouraged her to continue," men said.

He believes that getting out of what he considers an impasse is what he called "overthrowing the coup" and replacing it with a civilian authority of independents known for fighting the former regime and forming a transitional government capable of implementing the slogans of the revolution;

And then conduct a Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue.


Axes and agendas

The leader of the Revolutionary Awakening Council, Ismail Agbash, in an interview with Al Jazeera Net, attributes the continued security turmoil despite Hemedti's presence in Darfur to the fact that the man himself is part of the crisis, and represents special axes and agendas, as well as being an axis for himself within the authority, and he has ethnic alliances.

Agbash warns that the tribal conflicts in the Darfur region were disputes between farmers and shepherds, but they are on the way to turn into a war of a regional nature, and perhaps international, with the intervention of foreign parties, citing the penetration of foreign forces across the border and the killing of Sudanese shepherds;

In reference to Chadian gunmen assassinated shepherds last week.

He warns that the Darfur region is hijacked by conflicts of different dimensions.

There are conflicts between tribes and armed movements that signed the peace agreement in Juba in October 2020, and others that are not signatories to the agreement, as well as inflamed borders with Libya, Chad and Central Africa.

Remedy recipe

Manzul Assal offers a recipe that he considers an emergency and quick solution to stop the lawlessness in Darfur by applying the law and arresting the aggressor parties and referring them to the court without any blood money or reconciliation so that the crime is not distributed among the tribe and facilitates the commission of crimes again.

In the medium term, it shows that establishing the prestige of the law requires security and military reform;

There are soldiers who got involved in tribal disputes, and at best they are satisfied with watching the tribal battles under the pretext that there are no "instructions", in addition to the deployment and activation of police stations and prosecutors.

In the long term, Assal states that development represents alternatives to pastoralists and farmers from disputes through development projects;

Like a cattle ranch that spares nomads from moving their livestock between north and south;

Hence the friction with farmers.

Hemedti had said upon his return to Khartoum from Darfur that the nomadic Arabs in Darfur are completely forgotten and hardly anyone raises their issues.