One wave of the Al-Aqsa Flood is also in Sudan

While developments ending in the victory of both peoples were taking place in Syria and Gaza, very important developments were also recorded in Sudan, the apple of Africa's eye, against another occupation attempt that has been going on for 21 months.

About 21 months ago, the Rapid Support Forces (HTK) under the command of Hemeti, supported by some Gulf countries in line with Israel's grand plans as well, had taken control through a coup of important parts of Sudan, first of all the capital Khartoum. Of course, the control gained was nothing but an invasion, a plunder and looting movement rather than control. For the very formation of the HTK had in any case started from Omar al-Bashir's idea of forming units loyal to himself in connection with the events in Darfur.

All the bloody practices in Darfur that led Omar al-Bashir to be tried at the International Criminal Court had been committed by these forces. Since these units, based on the Janjaweed manpower widespread in Sudan, Chad, Libya and Ethiopia, have adopted booty and looting as a livelihood in the wars they enter as a matter of culture, they have no ethics of war to rely on. They have no criteria, no brakes in plundering and killing whatever comes before them.

In fact it is a group made up of fighters who are the kind to be a curse even upon those who use them. After the Darfur matter ended, Omar al-Bashir had put Hemeti, the leader of these groups, at the head of the HDK and also given him the rank of general. He himself had built a structure by giving ranks to forces subordinate to him with no military training. However, after Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019 by the Change Front, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who came to head the People's Revolution Council formed afterward, had to hand power over to the Hamdok government, but with the Hamdok government turning to communist, secular policies that had no resonance among the people, it had to withdraw as a result of popular protests.

Control passed to the military council again, but growing tension arose between Burhan, at the head of the regular army, and Hemeti, the head of the HDK, who was acting on his own initiative. In the face of Burhan's decision to unify the forces under a central army, in April 2023 Hemeti attempted a coup with the motley forces subordinate to him and seized many parts of the country. But as we said, this seizure took the form of complete plunder and invasion. Far from establishing order in the places he seized, complete disorder has prevailed to this day.

Unfortunately, many circles approached the situation in Sudan as a rivalry and civil war between two equal sides and began to make their calculations according to predictions about who would prevail. Yet we had already tried to state it here with all clarity before. There are not two equal sides fighting each other. Hemeti, with his frenzied men, a motley force brought from other countries who plunder every place they enter and ruthlessly massacre people, was not someone who promised anything to the Sudanese people.

There are not two approaches, two separate societies competing for Sudan. Nor was the war taking place between different segments of the Sudanese people. Al-Bashir had opened Hemeti's way for a certain purpose, but he turned this purpose into an opportunity beyond its measure, though undoubtedly not with his own mind and his own vision. Unfortunately, because of the extremely cheap calculations of certain people again from within the Islamic world, especially from within the Gulf countries, Sudan was living in complete chaos for 21 months. The number of people massacred among the innocent Sudanese people reached a hundred thousand. People whose homes were plundered and whose households were destroyed, people displaced within the country or by taking refuge abroad, have reached 12 million. Even the government had to move to Port Sudan. We had said earlier that Israel is among the forces that support Hemeti.

The regular army, which for quite some time has had the full support of the people and the support of all other parties and civil society forces, has in the last few months, with the support also of civilian detachments made up particularly of volunteer young Muslims, liberated the invaded regions step by step. About 15 days ago, with the liberation of Wad Madani, a very important center, from the hands of the HTK militias after 21 months, the course of the war in Sudan changed completely.

On January 23, the Army, advancing strongly from the north of the capital, liberated the very important Jaili oil refinery and reached the Signal and Transport Corps complexes, which had been under siege for 21 months. Then, crossing the river, it entered the General Command and lifted the siege there on the morning of Friday, January 24. Thus a large part of Khartoum was liberated, while the HTK elements fled from every side toward the south of Khartoum.

In fact the HTK elements, whose numbers reached 120 thousand in the first days, had begun to melt away over time. Despite the highly sophisticated weapons that came to them as outside aid, in time there were no people left to use these weapons, because above all, as there was nothing left to plunder, many elements had fled. What some of the countries that supported Hemeti were actually supporting on this occasion has been thoroughly seen. Their aim has never been the good of the Sudanese people or of the peoples of other countries in which they have intervened similarly.

There is talk of female snipers that the HTK had brought in from Ethiopia and placed in high-rise buildings in Khartoum. Their stories are terrifying. Since they went through a communist training, these people, raised in camps with no family life, have been raised as a matter of culture to fight. There are so-called very "civilized" states in this world that have made long-term training investments to raise these people. While these snipers kill people by firing at random, what kind of future can they promise Sudan?

In the end, just as the 61-year Assad regime eventually collapsed, just as in Gaza Israel was disgraced and ruined together with all the forces that support it, so in Sudan too Hemeti, who sought a similar massacre and occupation, and the forces behind him, have met with disappointment.

This great Sudanese victory was achieved by the unity of the Sudanese people and their determination to defend their land, honor and property by rallying around their armed forces. It took place in the face of the HDK's rebellion, external attacks and the terrible violations committed by these regionally backed rebel militias.

With these victories Sudan has proven once again a very important truth: Free peoples cannot be made to submit by old colonial methods, by military occupation and attacks. Sudan was forced into this defensive war in its weakest state, less equipped and less armed. But the people rapidly united around their armed forces and supported them with their young and dynamic forces.