The rivalry between Abdelfatah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan DagaloSudan’s two top military leaders, has turned the country since Saturday morning into a battlefield where the paramilitary group most powerful has gone from being a link in the future unified Army to a “rebel militia”
Despite the fact that the tension was latent between the Sudanese Army, of which al Burhan is the leader, and the Rapid Support Forces (FAR), led by Dagalo, also nicknamed “Hemedti”, for weeks, verbal exchanges have turned into artillery attacks and shelling on Saturday morning in the south of Khartoum.
The FAR accused the Sudanese Army of launching an action against its Soba base and described it as a “brutal attack”, but the Armed Forces gave the version that it was the FAR that had previously acted against its units in Khartoum, for which they proceeded to defend against that action.
The result of these mutual accusations has been a land And Air Battle, since the Army has sent its fighters to bomb positions of the paramilitary forces.
fast and bloody
Since the FAR accused the Army of attacking their base, military advances and setbacks developed very quickly throughout the day.
The forces led by Hemedti assured that they had taken the Presidential Palace and the General Command, although that extreme was later denied by Al Burhan.
But where one of the worst scenes in the capital has been experienced has been in the Khartoum International Airportthe largest in the country, which has been put out of service.
The Sudanese Doctors Union noted in its first preliminary report, and so far the only one, that at least 56 people have died for the armed clashes this weekend.
The source also said that there are “dozens of injuries”, but the other independent union Sudan Doctors Committee said that “a large number of deaths and injuries” are expected, since the count is still being carried out.
At the airport there was also a moment of terror this morning when a Saudi Airlines plane was “targeted by shooting” when it was about to take off for Riyadh, while the crew and passengers on board were evacuated and suffered no harm, the company itself said in a statement.
first statements
As the battle rages on in Khartoum and other parts of the country, Qatari television Al Jazeera was the only one who managed to interview Al Burhan and Hemedti, without them having issued an official statement so far.
On the one hand, Hemedti, considered Sudan’s strongman, said his group will not lay down its arms until the army surrenders.
According to the also number two in the Army, Al Burhan “will be brought to justice or die like any other dog.”
For his part, Al Burhan, who is president of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, assured that “everything is under control” and urged the Qatari network that the FAR have to “listen to the voice of reason.” and withdraw its units, or else the Army will be “forced to bring forces to Khartoum from various regions”, which would mean a new and dangerous escalation in the conflict.
These clashes take place two days after the Army warned that the country is going through a “dangerous juncture” that can lead to armed conflict, after FAR units were “mobilized” in the Sudanese capital and other cities without the consent or coordination of the Armed Forces.
This mobilization occurred in the midst of negotiations to reach a final political agreement that would put an end to the 2021 coup and lead Sudan to a democratic transitiona pact whose signing has been postponed twice this April precisely because of the tensions and rivalries between the Army and the FAR.
(EFE)
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Source-www.infobae.com