The media rebranding attempts of the infamous Sudan Rapid Support Forces militia commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, AKA Hemeti, have reached unprecedented and absurd levels.
Leader of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at his official residence in Pretoria, South Africa 4 January 2024. South Africa government/via REUTERS
It is a ludicrous attempt that denigrates the grief and suffering of an entire population affected by his atrocities. They are political mercenaries, just like Hemeti’s armed mercenaries. Furthermore, they overlook Hemeti’s deeply ingrained tendency to turn on anyone who allies with him or trusts him to take his side.In 2003, he made his first debut as part of the Bashir regime’s campaign to recruit criminals into the Janjaweed militia for the Darfur war.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the RSF shot demonstrators even though they had stopped. In its initial foray into the city, the RSF killed almost 200 unarmed civilians. After that, in 2014, it declared a new operation in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains called ‘Hot Summer Operations’, adding more brutality to its reputation.The humanitarian situation worsened beyond anyone’s wildest nightmares since the Darfur war started in 2003.
exploited his position to circumvent economic measures and to empower and increase the influence of the Rapid Support Forces financial empire. Hemeti successfully positioned himself as the deputy head of the military council, using his arsenal to advance his ambitions. He disregarded his assurance to move on from the past and played a significant role in instigating, organising, and carrying out the dispersal of the sit-in massacre with the Army leadership in June 2019, under the encouragement of the UAE.
In doing so, he used every possible political trickery to manipulate his alliances with civilians on the one hand and with the army on the other, while at the same time continuing to consolidate his foreign relations as a political actor independent of the state apparatus. He utilised civilians to rationalise his endeavour to acquire more power and subsequently instigate the war
They then used their weapons to target and harm the African Masalit community based on race and ethnicity. He expressed his readiness to meet with Al-Burhan through the mediation of Intergovernmental Authority on Development , but subsequently backed out of the meeting, citing technical issues that prevented his travel to Djibouti.
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