Arcua Minnawi and Strategic Stupidity

Mohammed Al-Rabie’ writes: Arcua Minnawi and Strategic Stupidity

“Stupidity is doing the same thing twice with the same method and using the same steps and expecting different results.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”

– Albert Einstein

Mr. Minni Arcua Minnawi is considered, by all standards, one of the most peculiar examples among activists throughout history. He is truly the product of a coincidence of fate that placed him in a position where he doesn’t possess the slightest qualification (scientific, personal, or innate) that qualifies him to lead change.

Academically, he did not receive a good enough or high education that enables him to formulate his ideas or express them with a clear vision, and he doesn’t have the philosophical ability to theorize and innovate, nor did he strive to develop himself through acculturation, extensive knowledge, accompanying books, and sitting with scholars and people of insight, because that requires significant effort and perseverance, which is rather too much to expect from people like him, for he cannot be classified as an intellectual because he lacks the tools of culture!

As for the distance between him and thought and thinkers, it is the distance between the “seven heavens and the earth.” He also didn’t possess the innate qualities of a pioneering leader such as intelligence, charisma, quick wit, and quick responses in critical historical situations.

Therefore, he is not a revolutionary fighter with a revolutionary culture and principles of struggle like Castro and Guevara (Cuba and Latin America). Nor is he an educated, articulate orator who convinces the listeners like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X of (the United States).

Furthermore, he doesn’t possess the independence and self-esteem like the Asian freedom fighters, led by the Vietnam fighters, “Ho Chi Minh, the founder, and then General von Moser, who defeated America to the point of calling him the Great Enemy.” He is definitely not an intellectual with a strategic vision and a State project like Mandela, John Garang, Sankara, and Paul Kagame of the African continent…. But he is a mixture of a media clown and a political adventurer with no memory or goal, leaning with the wind, “sometimes with those and other times with others!!

Mr. Minnawi was the first to break the back of the Liberation Movement and waste its ideal project, which was a beacon for the youth and a noble dream for the people of the margins, with his childish, stupid defection through the “Haskanita” conference, which was created and sponsored by the Intelligence Service. The struggle didn’t last three years, and he was promoted tribally to align his tribe, especially the (the sons of Daeqin) with the “Haskanita” wing and they installed him as their president!!

Subsequently all the cadres of other tribes, especially the “Fur” tribe, kept their distance from him or were “kept away.” And from that point onwards began the implementation of the policy of “Divide and Conquer” and the Movements multiplied one after another until they reached about eighty Movements total, all bearing the name of “Liberation.” Where one tribe owns, for example, thirty Movements with different names…

At that time, i was the media secretary and the Movement’s spokesman in the Cairo office, the most important and active foreign office, when we issued a strongly worded statement denouncing that particular step and anticipating what would happen next. We rejected the call for a general conference at the height of the struggle because it only reveals authoritarian ambitions and the beginning of fragmentation and tearing, and it was!!

Naturally, he didn’t read that Mandela remained head of his Movement even when he was in prison for (27) years. No one removed him or thought about holding a conference to remove him. Dr. John remained head of the “SPLM” from 1983 to 2005, the time of his ill-fated death, same as with Castro…

Following that, he went to “Abuja” and continued in the same role of “dividing the ranks” that the Intelligence Service assigned to him. He surprised all the activists and observers by signing their agreement with Majzoub Al-Khalifa to bring him on (as an assistant) according to his own description, which came after they secluded him in a small, humble office in the far corner of the Gordon Palace, with only “a few chairs” and a table for the miserable Inqazi newspapers filled with articles satirizing and vilifying his person, in which the racist presidential uncle al-Tayeb Mustafa was rather artistic in his wording!! And when the situation became unbearable, they betrayed him, killed his men, and humiliated him, he was forced to go out to “the sky full of constellations.”

Following the December Revolution and the emergence of the star of 1st Lt. Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, after his honorable position of refusing to strike against the revolutionaries, he contributed to ending Al-Bashir’s rule (even partially). However, the strength of his personality shined through in the decisive role he played in the Juba Peace Agreement, as he was the one who imposed it on Al-Burhan and his Kizani Security Council, and he was the one who paid the expenses for the Movements’ delegations in Juba, including -but not limited to- the Minnawi Movement (with testimony from members of those Movements).

He was the one who kept providing for them financially in Khartoum to manage their lives, and he was the one who imposed their presence in Khartoum when Abdul Rahim uttered his famous saying in the house of Musa Hilal: (Who does Khartoum belong to?!) While others kept insulting them and demanding their removal!!
Then again, Minnawi repeated the same mistake by breaking the back of the December Revolution and supporting the “Banana” Kizani Congress, then turning against the revolution government and stating in his insinuations that: (We have an under the table -secret- agreement)!!

He continued to support the coup, without bringing any peace or gain to the Darfur region or to the displaced people in the camps. When he went to Darfur after his inauguration as Governor, we supported him and expected that he had learned his lesson. Personally, I wrote an article about him and included mail messages… But unfortunately, “Halima returned to practicing old habits.”

Once the April war broke out, he pretended to maintain a neutral stance and wanted to go to Darfur. Therefore, the Rapid Support Forces helped him get out safely and once again secured his exit and he went to “Port kizan”. From that point onwards, began his betrayal and desertion of the struggle, and he committed the sin of a lifetime by abandoning neutrality and joining the ranks of those who fought him for two decades and displaced him and his family to humiliating and disgraceful camps. He was the one who said about the “Krindinq” events: “There is blatant scheming and conspiracy by the Regular Agencies in El-Geneina.”

Just as the Islamists ignited the war in order to return to power, and falsely called it the War of Dignity, Arcua Minnawi dragged the war to El-Fasher, “weary by war for two decades,” in order to preserve only the “family” gains of the Juba Peace Agreement,,, and called it the Darfur War!!

And once again, he mobilized for it (his tribe, especially his direct family). So, what is the fault of the rest of the components that did not gain anything from the Juba share allocated to (his direct family) within the tribe???!!! Did you take any of the components other than (your direct family) from Abuja to Doha and then Juba with you?? If you do not meet the region’s demands for “Peace, Development and Rights,” how can you mobilize it to fight alongside you to preserve your personal and family interests?

All of us struggled and without requiring permission from our tribes, and we didn’t and won’t take their direction for us politically, and we cannot involve them in any position in public work. The mission of the tribe remains social and is to get to know people. So why would the tribes get involved in a war between two armies?! As for the story of your betrayal of the 1st Lt. Gen. Hemedti, where do you stand with Lt. Col. Abdul Rahman Al-Bishi “Ibn Sinnar” who said: By God we all stand with Hemedti and would withstand any bitterness with him!!? It is a statement to history from a knight clad in loyalty and chivalry!!

Which is the strategic enemy for you? Is it the country of 1956 and the ousted regime’s holdouts with its “ISIS” brigades, or is it the Rapid Support Forces and its leader, 1st Lt. Gen. Hemedti, who is your neighbor, the son of your region, and you are related through (geography and history)?! Do you trust a racist regional tribal army that killed about six million Sudanese people during its history, which was tainted with the patriotic blood of the peoples of the margins, especially Darfur, until their leader said: I don’t want a prisoner or a wounded among them, and raping their women by other ethnicities is an honor for them? To whom does the planes that bomb Darfur daily, especially El-Fasher, specifically in the neighborhoods where your family lives, belong to? The big question is why did you limit your defense only to the city of El-Fasher and let the rest of the region fall while you held the title of “Governor of the region”?!

Do you now understand Einstein’s statement that genius has its limits? In other words, stupidity has no limits, and this is confirmed to us by Minnawi’s ’s repetition of the same stupid mistakes for twenty years, each time the cost becomes greater, he never learns, and this is the result of advancement in ranks without qualifications!! This time, it was completely confirmed that he lost any political future because he lost militarily and lost his strength and equipment, but the question is: Will he finally find a way to his sky full of constellations?! .

In conclusion:

A person is remembered for their good deeds after they are gone – so build up your remembrance with good deeds

And I know that you will be mentioned once – and it will either be said he did good or he did bad.