Sudan: no surprise

They may be special forces troops and secret police, left over from the old dictatorship and long rewarded for abusing and murdering the old regime’s enemies, who will gladly serve a new dictatorship.

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, the former president of Sudan, who was ousted in April, in a coup, originally created Janjaweed, a paramilitary group, to carry out a genocide in the separatist western province of Darfur. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 11, 2019

It’s like Tiananmen Square in miniature, and maybe not all that miniature. The death toll in Khartoum after last week’s massacre stands at 118, but the whole city is still locked down, with columns of Rapid Support Forces (RSF)vehicles driving through the streets ...

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