REVOLUTION IN SUDAN | The genocides of Darfur continue to kill without the deposed dictator Al Bashir

The first day of "civil disobedience" summoned by the democratic opposition to the regime of the headless Al Bashir, three people are already dead, although the information blackout may be able to hide some more. It is a general strike to which barricades must be united throughout the city to prevent traffic . At the moment, only state banks and official agencies are open.

The heart has been removed by the corrupt body, but the rest of the organs and limbs are still poisoned. With the fall of the dictator Omar al Bashir, an implacable satrap for decades with his opponents - who is still being held in some secret place - the soldiers who were holding him and knocking him down do what they have always done : exert terror with their own population to continue governing without anyone questioning their power.

When Bashir fell, many thought that the Sudanese revolution had been completed. The military, on the other hand, set up a transition table (in which they are only) to organize elections (also led by them) to find a president. Protesters in Khartoum, who for months clamored on the streets for a democratic country and elected leaders, have suffered something they had only seen on the news from international media: the massacres that Bashir had directed against rival ethnic groups in Darfur, Kordofan or Blue Nile are reproduced now, in the same way, against the middle-class youth who are the protagonists of the revolution.

Last week these soldiers opened fire on unarmed students in the vicinity of their headquarters, where they had set up a protest camp. Accompanied by the usual propaganda in this type of repressive regimes, the more than 100 deaths that were scattered on the asphalt were no longer demonstrators, but "dangerous terrorists" fed and financed "by the enemies of Sudan."

Behind that table of military coup plotters we find the name of an old man known in war crimes: General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemeti , leader of the so-called Rapid Action Forces, that is, a nickname for the Yanyaweed militias responsible for the genocide of Darfur. The method is the same as in ethnic cleansing, appearing with their pick-ups , killing dozens of unarmed people, raping women, burning their stores and denying that this has happened. Up to 9,000 soldiers of these units are at your command in the capital of Sudan.

Hemeti has no affiliation with young middle-class university students who are protesting a democratic Sudan. He is a man born in a rural area with great experience in repressing opponents . In fact, he was Bashir's right arm in this type of operation. He directed counterintelligence and was nicknamed by Bashir The man without mercy. Amnesty International also recalls that he is a key figure in the abduction and mistreatment of Somali and Eritrean migrants who cross the country to Libya.

He has been seen fighting in Yemen with the forces supported by Saudi Arabia, financiers of his military unit, against the Houthi militias backed by Iran.

Meanwhile, the youth associations that were involved in the revolution feel betrayed and lack a different strategy to be able to fight not against Bashir, but against their corrupt state.