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After a 2-year siege El-Fashir, the capital of Darfur, has fallen to the terroristic UAE-funded RSF militias who now carry out ethnic killings against Black Sudanese with impunity.
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Ok wtf is happening in Sudan? And what's with the ongoing massacre that's probably on a higher scale than the so-called "Gaza genocide"?
There's no "probably" about it, Anon.
[This is as simple and short as I can make it...and it's still neither simple nor short]
Since April 2023, Sudan has been tearing itself apart in a brutal civil war. This is a violent power struggle between two generals who literally ran the country together after staging a coup in 2021.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) is the official national army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a heavily armed paramilitary group led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Musa, better known as "Hemedti," who previously commanded the notorious Janjaweed militias.
They were supposed to merge their forces and transition Sudan to civilian rule. Instead, they couldn't agree on terms and the country exploded into war. The capital, Khartoum, has been devastated, but the worst violence is happening (again) in Darfur.
Regarding the difference in scale:
Gaza has seen roughly 2 million people displaced within its borders, which is horrible.
Sudan has over 12 million people forced from their homes, six times as many. It's the largest displacement crisis in the entire world right now, and it's not even close.
Hamas estimates the death toll in Gaza at about 70,000 people.
Death toll estimates in Sudan range from 150,000 to over 520,000 when you include conflict-related starvation and disease.
In Darfur specifically, the RSF and allied militias are carrying out systematic ethnic cleansing against non-Arab groups. This includes mass executions, widespread rape as a weapon of war, and entire villages burned to ash. Multiple famine zones have been confirmed because both sides are deliberately blocking aid and destroying food supplies as a military strategy.
Genocide scholars and human rights organizations are explicitly warning this is a repeat of the 2003 Darfur genocide, and it's happening now.
That's the difference in scale, but the contrast in the world's response is similarly jarring.
The Israel/Hamas conflict has dominated Western news cycles, generated massive street protests across Europe and North America, and created intense political pressure on governments. It's a central topic in elections, congressional hearings, and UN sessions.
Sudan, however, barely registers at all.
Major news outlets run occasional stories, but there are no sustained headlines, no viral social media campaigns, no campus protests, and virtually no political consequences for ignoring it. Western governments have provided minimal humanitarian funding and zero meaningful diplomatic pressure on either side to stop the atrocities.
Why the massive disparity?
Geopolitics: Gaza directly involves Israel, a key US ally, making it central to Western foreign policy. Sudan has no such strategic importance to powerful nations.
Media access and narrative: Sudan is extraordinarily difficult to report from, with both armies actively restricting or targeting media. Israel has a free press and Hamas had/has a massive propoganda operation pretending to be journalism to generate a narrative.
Activism and visibility: Organized diaspora communities and established advocacy networks amplify Gaza constantly. Sudan lacks that infrastructure in the West, so it generates almost no public pressure on governments.
Judenhass: Jews are not involved in the Sudan crisis.
This silence on Sudan isn't an accident. It's a choice.
The world has decided through its attention, its resources, and its outrage, that some mass atrocities matter more than others, and that's not determined by scale.
Right now, it seems Sudanese lives aren't making the cut. These lives don't matter to the West's far left, because it was never atrocity which motivated them about Gaza.
The Gold Angle:
You might have read that this war in Sudan is about gold, and that's definitely part of it.
Sudan has significant gold reserves, particularly in Darfur and other regions the RSF controls or is fighting over. The RSF has been heavily involved in gold mining for years, and it's one of their primary revenue sources. Hemedti himself built much of his wealth and power through control of gold mining operations.
There's credible reporting that the RSF has been smuggling gold (estimated in the billions of dollars worth) to fund their war effort, with much of it going through the UAE. This isn't just about controlling territory, it's also about controlling the resources that fund the militias and enrich the commanders.
But it's not just about gold.
Who backs each side?
This war isn't happening in a vacuum. Regional powers are actively fueling it with weapons, money, and diplomatic cover.
The RSF (Hemedti's paramilitary):
The UAE has deep ties to Hemedti built on gold and regional influence. There's extensive documentation of the UAE providing weapons, diplomatic support, and facilitating gold smuggling that funds the RSF war machine. It appears to be transparently transactional. The UAE gets access to resources, and Hemedti gets money and arms to keep fighting.
The SAF (the official army):
Egypt sees the RSF as a threat to its southern border and has provided weapons and diplomatic support to the SAF. Egypt wants a stable, friendly government in Khartoum, particularly regarding Nile water issues.
Iran has reportedly supplied drones to the SAF, seeing an opportunity to expand influence where its rivals (the UAE and Saudi Arabia) are active.
Why does this matter?
These foreign backers are prolonging the war.
Neither side can win decisively and both have enough external support to keep fighting indefinitely. The UAE and Egypt seem to have turned this into a proxy conflict where Sudanese civilians pay the price.
None of these powers face meaningful consequences from Western governments for fueling the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
The UAE remains a major Western ally despite credible evidence it's arming forces committing ethnic cleansing. That's part of why the international response has been so toothless.
And the "Free Palestine" folks, while claiming to be motivated by humanitarian concerns, have absolutely no fucks to give. This tells us a great deal about what actually drives them.
The latest chapter in Sudan's civil war has captured the world's attention. To understand what's happening now it helps to understand some o
As the civil war enters its third year, Sudan’s two warring factions remain locked in a deadly power struggle. Death toll estimates vary wid
If any Sudanese are reading, I'd gratefully welcome your comments and/or corrections. I hope the world wakes up to the horrors taking place in Sudan and applies international pressure to ending those horrors.
It's the - SOURCES. that really gets me
