Minnawi’s human shields

The blunt statement made by the governor of the Darfur region, who is “fighting from all the way in Port Sudan”, refusing the exit of civilian citizens “in a safe manner” from the city of El-Fasher, despite the approval of the Rapid Support Forces, is peculiar and bizarre.
Not a single commander throughout history has demanded (not) to remove the civilians who have no say in the war from the battlefield except Mr. Arcua Minnawi, whose only connection to those battles is the title given to him by the Security Committee as Governor of a region he doesn’t possess the authority to rule even a “single inch” of said region.

Minnawi is manipulating the international appeals card for Rapid Support Forces to refrain from entering El-Fasher due to the presence of large numbers of civilians. Because the international organizations believe it will increase the suffering of those trapped in the displacement camps in the region and may lead to mass massacres.

Therefore, he demands “shamelessly” the citizens not be allowed to leave, for he would rather they remain as human shields and to be used in relief appeals “to protect them.”
He is actually thinking about preventing the city from falling under the Rapid Support Forces’ control. The city will witness direct military confrontations if the civilians leave, and he knows that the Rapid Support Forces is rather apprehensive of inciting the wrath of the international community by invading the city with a large number of civilians present.

We don’t believe that Mr. Minnawi, who lives in safety in Port Sudan and whose children and family live in luxury abroad, is ignorant of the suffering experienced by the displaced people in camps that lack the most basic necessities of life, such as foodstuffs, drink, and medical treatment, as they suffer under the fire of both parties to the conflict, when they have a right to have open safe passages for them to exit, but Minnawi’s thoughts are apparently limited to his position and his loss of the last stronghold of his supposed rule, which the Juba “surrender” Agreement granted him -without right- and thus the loss of his last card with the coup Security Committee.

Civilians inside El-Fasher have the right to a safe exit, and they suffer from all aspects of this war being conducted against them. For the Rapid Support Forces refuses to allow entrance of aid to them for fear that the Army and their militias will seize it, while the Sudanese Armed Forces refuse to leave them, and even international organizations have stopped sending aid convoys for fear of being plundered, therefore death continues to besiege them from all directions.
The last remaining hope is pinned on the Jeddah platform, which both parties hesitate to go to, while dozens die there every hour of hunger and diseases if they don’t die under the barrage of strikes or aerial bombardment, making the balance of accounts heavier every single day.