Orbits: Tamazuj Incident .. The worst scenario is around the corner!
According to news articles Tamazuj armed group and the police traded accusations in Khartoum about an attack on a police station in Khartoum Sunday.
The group says the security forces assaulted one of its leaders, while the police accused the former of attacking a police station to release a number of detainees.
The Third Movement (Tamazuj) said that one of its generals and member of the Security Arrangements sub-committee came to the police station in Khartoum to investigate the circumstances of the arrest of a vehicle belonging to the movement.
The police requested the general to evacuate his guards to the outside of the police station. Tamazuj forces stormed the police station and surrounded it using one armed vehicle and 8 small cars.
In line with the Juba Peace Agreement, the combatants of the former rebel groups have to remain in their cantonment sites and their leaders are authorized to have a small protection guards.
The incident took place in Khartoum center not far away from the Republican Palace.
The lesson to be learnt is not in its details of who attacked who, but it’s being not the first of its kind and will not be the last as there are similar scenarios in the last few years.
The problem is not about its repetition in the future; but that the law will become a tool to assault anybody who is not armed or have a political power.
It should be recognized that the State is not just geographic borders, but a status of recognition of the law in which all are equal.
It is good that the incident ended without claiming lives or injuries, but it is better instead of looking for defendant or criminal to enforce the law and bring it back to its natural position.
The issue is not what Tamazuj did, and not in the police authorities as that latter is the party of enforcing the law; but where is the law?
We are living in a statelessness status. We do not have constitutional court. We don’t have Supreme Judiciary Council. We don’t have Legislative Council. So what is remaining to speak about the rule of law state?
Police authority is an apparatus to enforce law, so we have to look for the law first, otherwise the worst scenario is just around the corner.