OPINION

Face of Truth: The New Nazis and the Conscience of the World..!

Ibrahim Shaglawi

In a scene that brings to mind the most horrific pages of history, the city of El Fasher today is living a humanitarian tragedy that places it at the forefront of cities destined to be a witness to the collapse of the global conscience and human values.

A stage of a full-fledged genocide, a stage that recalls the features of the “Holocaust,” that inferno committed by the Nazi regime during World War II, when hatred turned into an organized industry of killing. And today, those atrocities are being revived in Darfur, at the hands of a militia that goes beyond being a mere rebel force into a political–ethnic project seeking to reshape the country by the edge of the knife and fire.

What is happening in El Fasher represents the most dangerous development in the course of the Sudanese war. The militia is no longer seeking negotiating gains, but rather a new demographic and political engineering that paves the way for a parallel authority to the state, built on violence and managed by the logic of warlords recently witnessed in sub-Saharan Africa.

The burning of villages, forced displacement, killing based on identity, mass rape, and the siege of cities—all these are not random acts but systematic tools to dismantle Sudan, discipline its people, and turn it into tribal and geographical islands controlled by guns and cross-border interests.

The repetition of crimes in Darfur, Al Jazira, eastern Khartoum, and northern Kordofan reveals the ethnically biased nature of the violence practiced by the militia. The goal is not military control, but rather the demolition of Sudan’s national identity and its transformation into a map of fragmented entities easily controlled from abroad.

The most dangerous aspect of this scene is the transformation of the Sudanese state from a political entity into a conflicting space where international interests are managed through local agents who know no law.

In the face of this disgraceful scene, the international silence appears as a complete moral scandal. The international community, which once moved quickly in less severe crises, now stands paralyzed and hesitant, as if weighing profits before blood.

This silence is not impotence, but rather clear political and economic calculations: Western and regional states see in the militia a suitable force to balance influence and tighten control over gold and resources through a firm grip on Sudan.

Regional parties wish to keep the militia as a tool of influence within our country. International institutions have become captive to bargains, not to values. Hence, the result: international silence has turned into implicit participation in the crime—full-fledged genocide.

Recent reports issued by the Sudan Doctors Network reveal that the militia has been collecting hundreds of bodies from the streets and burying them in mass graves or burning them. These systematic crimes constitute a direct violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention, Articles (6, 7, and 8) of the Rome Statute, and Article (17) of the First Protocol to the Geneva Conventions regarding respect for the remains of the dead.

On the humanitarian level, data issued by the International Organization for Migration and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights show that El Fasher is experiencing an extremely dangerous humanitarian situation: tens of thousands have fled on foot amid the siege, while Rapid Support Forces fighters spread along the roads extorting civilians by forcing them to pay ransom for survival, in addition to acts of killing and rape—crimes of war and crimes against humanity without any legal ambiguity.

El Fasher today is not a case of relief, but a case of existence. The fall of the city has opened the door to a new stage of Sudan’s fragmentation and the handover of its geography to militias and states competing over resources. And if it is recovered, it will be the birth point of a new national consciousness redefining the state, justice, and national sovereignty.

Why is the Rapid Support Force not classified as a terrorist organization? The question that haunts every Sudanese and every free conscience: why is a militia practicing genocide not listed among terrorist groups? The answer is painful but clear: because some powers want to keep it as a political card for pressure and negotiation. Because the standards of international justice suffer from double standards. And because the lives of Sudanese, it seems, have no value in the world’s balance.

According to #Face_of_Truth, El Fasher today represents a test of international legitimacy and adherence to global law. Either the institutions of international law reclaim their role in protecting civilians and enforcing justice, or their failure will be recorded on the ruins of a city that tells chapters of a new Nazism and a Holocaust by the Rapid Support Militia.

The legal and moral history reminds us that silence in the face of genocide is not neutrality but implicit participation in the crime. El Fasher today confirms that the fate of international law and the credibility of the global conscience are linked to the ability to stop violations and punish their perpetrators.

Best regards and wishes of wellbeing.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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