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Barbarism in Sudan: a desperate appeal for help from Sudan's anarchists!
(freedomnews.org.uk)
Sad.
For those who don't know, Sudan has seen a number of wars during the past 70 years. The longest period of peace lasted about 10 years. Recently, war was mostly contained to southern parts of the country, with the armed forces and the Janjaweed cooperating against southern rebels (I recall hearing about the Janjaweed and their methods already in 2008).
Now the same factions fight each other. Several foreign countries have tried to mediate some negotiated settlement or at least a ceasefire. But some foreign countries have also supported some of the factions.
1955...1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sudanese_Civil_War
1983..2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
2003..2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur
2018... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_revolution
2023... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Sudan_(2023%E2%80%93present)
A recent article about Sudan from a German analyst: https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publication/mta-spotlight-30-how-not-to-talk-about-the-war-in-sudan
...and my take: when two or more authoritarian factions fight each other, and have comparable eagerness to violate human rights and commit war crimes, and there's not enough anarchists to make a faction or make a difference... an anarchist can either emigrate, go anonymous or go apolitical. The latter is not a guarantee against being targeted - if random non-combatants are targeted, then apolitical people will also be targeted. It might be best to preserve oneself and wait for warrring factions to burn each other out, maintaining a low profile and helping local people without raising any banners.
