Violence

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When an internal or civil war breaks out in one country or another, a question usually arises about the nature of society and its relationship to violence. For example, it is asked whether this violence occurred in a peaceful society or was it peaceful, or whether it is resident in the structure and history of this society. It is the nature of things that jurisprudence differs in this area. This is happening now regarding the current internal war in Sudan, and the violence it characterizes, especially on the part of the Rapid Support Forces militia, which is accused of committing crimes in some areas that are under its control, or that it seizes. Dr. believes Mahmoud Abdel Mawla, in his comment on the jurisprudence of last September 13, entitled “Do not forget Sudan,” stated that the violence in the current internal war is not an emergency, because Sudan has been in a state of continuous civil wars since the late 1950s, with short periods of rest as a result of agreements that do not last for a long time. Even when this break or truce lasted for a long time, as a result of the Addis Ababa agreement in 1972 with the “Ananya” movement, which was considered a rebel, it was ended by the late President Jaafar Numeiri, and the war broke out again in 1983.

Dr. adds: Abdel Mawla commented in his comment that violence was also present in the practices of what was called the “Salvation Government,” which ruled Sudan for about three decades after the coup of June 30, 1989. The “Janjaweed” militia that was affiliated with this government committed terrible crimes in Darfur in particular. If the Rapid Support Forces represent an extension of the Janjaweed militia that was fighting on behalf of the Salvation Government in Darfur, it is difficult to talk about emergency violence in the current internal war. Therefore, he adopts the idea that the violence being practiced in this war is not temporary but permanent, and that its roots exist in Sudanese society, and did not fall from the sky, and that denying what he considers to be a historical fact is of no use. It is better, in his opinion, to acknowledge it and work to address it rather than deny it.