Al Burhan: No more glory for the revolution’s tires, but for the rifle

The Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan declared, “no more glory for the revolution’s tires,” in reference to the popular revolution that toppled the Islamic Movement regime in (April 2019). During the (2018) uprising, protesters burned tires on public roads to prevent security forces from reaching their locations and violently suppressing them.

Al-Burhan’s efforts in downplaying and disregarding the December revolution that brought him to power was met with widespread disapproval and harsh criticism from the Sudanese civil society and revolutionaries. For they were quick to describe him as a butcher and a traitor to the revolution for turning against it (executing a coup), killing revolutionaries -en masse- during the dispersal of the sit-in in front of the Military’s General Command Headquarters, and igniting the ongoing war in support of his Islamist allies.

They considered the glorification of weapons instead of the lives of the Sudanese people a moral failure, and stated that he had learned nothing from the devastation the country is experiencing as a direct consequence of the ongoing war he was responsible for igniting, alongside the Islamic Movement.