As the battles intensified in Khartoum and other areas in Sudan, the Sudanese Army said the condition for stopping the war “depends on ending the rebellion by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).”
Army official spokesman Brigadier General Nabil Abdallah spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat in a phone call from Khartoum of the presence of regional support for what he described as the “rapid support militia”, which does not need “proof or evidence.”
While he stressed that the army would not point to any particular regional party, he noted: “Things are clear as day to us.”
As for the condition for stopping the war, Abdallah said: “From day one, we had called on the rapid support militia to end this adventure, which will only lead to the destruction of the country...”
He added: “Stopping the war requires an end to the rapid support militia’s rebellion.”
Emphasizing the need to unify the army under one leadership, Abdallah vowed that the military would not allow the country to be dragged into civil war.
The army is thwarting any “attempt by the Rapid Support Forces to control the country and power by force and rebel against the state,” he noted.
“We have not relied on air strikes alone, because we know that war is a system of simultaneous actions and a joint effort by the ground, air, and other forces to achieve the military objective,” acknowledging that it was not possible to resort solely to air strikes to resolve any military operation.
Regarding the army’s use of air strikes to decide the battle, the official remarked: “We have not relied on air strikes alone, because we know that war is a system of simultaneous actions and a joint effort by the ground, air, and other forces to achieve the military objective,” acknowledging that it was not possible to resort solely to air strikes to resolve any military operation.
Moreover, the spokesman said the RSF were not controlling the ground, but rather specific areas and certain roads, by using human shields and occupying civilian homes.
He explained that the RSF “cannot directly confront the army’s brigades, just as they know very well that the army cannot storm their positions with tanks as they are in people’s homes and in hospitals... which put the people’s lives at risk.”
“From this point of view, you cannot say that the army is not protecting the civilians. On the contrary, the military is protecting the whole country and all the people by ending the rebellion in a systematic military manner, while respecting military ethics. As for the Rapid Support Forces, they are resorting to systematic looting, theft, rape and destruction of buildings and infrastructure,” Abdallah stated.
He added that the army was doing everything in its power to end the rebellion, but did not set a timeframe for ending the war, which he said was aimed at destroying the country.
“Since the start of the war, the Rapid Support Forces raided all service stations, in a desperate attempt to seize the whole country, but the army responded to that with courage and thwarted the RSF’s objectives...” the spokesman remarked.
He stressed that the army was working to end the rebellion in the shortest time possible to put an end to other party’s objective of destroying the country and plunge it into civil war.
The army will not fall for this conspiracy, he vowed.
