2025-08-13
The Radar: Darfur Between the Fires of War and the Dangers of Secession
A Conspiracy Unravels
By Engineer/Hasaballah Al-Nour
The governor of the Darfur region, Mini Arko Minawi, stated: "If the so-called founding government continues for a year or two, Darfur will become a de facto state among states, and UN organizations will raise their flags in Darfur's airports and border crossings to prevent aerial bombardment."
In a related context, while addressing a gathering that included leaders of the native administration, representatives of political forces, and Darfur region associations in Port Sudan, the day before yesterday, Friday, he said that what is currently happening on the ground is an actual implementation of a plan aimed at dividing Sudan, describing it as a "conspiracy that will not succeed" because the Sudanese people, as he put it, will stand in its way and thwart it by adhering to the unity of the country and resisting any projects that threaten the existence of the Sudanese state. (Al-Jazeera Sudan, 3/8/2025 AD)
Comment:
Suddenly, the media in Sudan appeared, discussing the plan to separate Darfur, as if the matter had fallen from the sky, or emerged from the depths of the earth, or was brought by the wind from a distant place, to suddenly become the talk of the town!
Was this appearance sudden? Or was it something plotted at night?
Separating a part of any country is not a trivial matter, nor is it easy, but rather it is a dangerous matter that requires dealing with it as a matter of life and death, as Sultan Abdul Hamid, may God have mercy on him, said: "That the scalpel be used on my body while I am alive is easier for me than signing a concession that gives up one inch of the land of Palestine."
The United States took strict measures during the rebellion of the American South, launching a relentless war in which the number of deaths exceeded six hundred thousand, all to prevent secession.
Likewise, Britain, Spain, and Russia took a firm stance against secession, and this is the correct stance that all countries that respect themselves and their people should take.
Since secession is at this level of danger, striving for it requires the availability of key elements, including:
1- Creating a grievance issue around which one or more regions rally.
2- The presence of agents inside, who are willing to play this dirty role, and behind them a mass of ignorant people; who are driven to implement the plan without awareness.
3- The external element, which manages the entire process; in terms of media, military, and politics, and harnesses the functional regional countries to serve this project until it is fully implemented.
This has happened repeatedly in ancient and modern history:
The Balkan countries were separated from the Ottoman Caliphate, followed by the Arab countries, and this was like a red light for the collapse of the Caliphate, with direct support from European countries, especially Britain.
The Baltic states were separated from the Soviet Union, which was a prelude to its collapse with American planning and European assistance.
What happened in Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan is not far away. Omar al-Bashir acknowledged that America was behind the separation of the South, and the strange thing is that he himself implemented that plan! And this is what is being prepared for today in Darfur.
If secession leads to weakening the state, and perhaps to its fragmentation and complete destruction, which is absolutely rejected, then work on it is done in a preparatory and introductory phase, so that it is not revealed and met with rejection. This is what is happening today in Sudan.
We note that the idea of the margin, which evolved into the fifty-six states, the Nile River state, and the so-called Jellaba state, was the intellectual axis around which the Rapid Support Forces and their supporters revolved.
As for the external element, America has emerged since the first moment of the war as its main sponsor, as it announced that a political solution through negotiation is the only way, mobilized regional countries, and still holds all the threads of the game, holding conferences, or canceling them whenever it wants, and defining the parties, the agenda, and the place and time.
On the internal stage, the Rapid Support Forces were carefully prepared financially, militarily, in training, and in arming, until they reached Khartoum and positioned themselves in the joints of the state, to become a parallel army that holds the state by the neck, instead of being supportive of it. All of this was done under the eyes and ears, but rather with the support of the army leadership, despite intelligence warnings, and despite the objection of high-ranking officers within the military establishment, who ended up being referred to retirement!
When the moment of truth came, and the Rapid Support Forces failed to seize power, the plan moved to stage "B", which is the separation of Darfur.
A war has raged, in which tens of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, have been killed, the state's infrastructure has been destroyed, millions have been displaced, and the Rapid Support Forces' control has expanded to neighboring states, where they have practiced the most heinous types of persecution against the population. This is the case now in Kordofan, despite the presence of large armies in Al-Abyad, where people in its north and west are subjected to the most heinous brutal crimes. This was preceded by the army's withdrawal from four capitals in the Darfur states in its favor, without any significant resistance.
In conclusion, this war has been managed in a way that has created a deep rift and a growing animosity between the people of the country, and this was a deliberate goal and a major station on the road to secession. Then came the founding government to be a stronger indication that we are approaching the final station.
In light of this reality, it is understood that the escalating talk about the secession of Darfur is a kind of preparation of public opinion for this criminal act that threatens the unity of the country and perhaps its existence. Here, the responsibility becomes collective, and no one is excluded from it. Let each of us see that the country is not brought from his side.
The unity of the Islamic nation is an obligation, as the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever comes to you while you are united under one man, wanting to break your unity or divide your community, then kill him," and in another hadith: "If two caliphs are given allegiance, then kill the latter of them." So how if the matter is to break up the fragmented and divide the divided?!
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Engineer Hasaballah Al-Nour - Sudan Province
Source: The Radar
