The Forgotten War: From Horrors to Neglect
Abdel Nasser Fadl
The sounds of bombs and bullets faded from the countrys capital after the Rapid Support Forces headed west under pressure from artillery, warplanes, and drones. The fierce battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces ceased, and the citizens battle against security chaos, poor health, diseases of backwardness, medicine shortages, high prices, lack of income, and a blocked future began.
The sounds of the instruments of quick death subsided, but the sounds of the instruments of slow death rose. Those who didnt die from the bullets of the army or the Rapid Support Forces died from environmental neglect and the absence of alternative plans for the collapse of the health and economic sectors, the loss of jobs and professions, the unavailability of affordable medicine, and the deterioration of services, including electricity and water, in most neighborhoods of Khartoum State. Authorities continued to urge citizens to return, only to find mosquitoes, gnats, and flies eager to return, sending them directly to hospitals and health centers devoid of adequate medical care and medicine.
The authorities are urging citizens to return, as if speaking on behalf of pests and disease vectors. There is no clean water, no stable electricity, and an environment rife with diseases of backwardness and pollution, including malaria, typhoid fever, dengue fever, gastritis, anemia, and various other ailments.
All of the above represents the real suffering experienced by most neighborhoods in the Triangle Capital. Despite its severity, it cannot be compared to the security lapses and lack of peace among citizens, even in their bedrooms.
The proliferation of weapons in the streets, markets, and service locations has become a constant and entrenched feature of life in the Triangle Capital and all the cities where the fierce battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces have ceased.
Warning weapons has transformed from a means of defending citizens rights and protecting their property into a tool of looting and terror, which even decisions to withdraw the armies from the cities to the border crossings or barracks have failed to address.
A large number of citizens have lost their property at gunpoint, and a series of deaths inside homes has begun. A significant number of citizens were killed defending their property and honor. The media reported the assassination of a large number of citizens inside their homes, while those who were robbed in dark alleys and remote streets were not counted. Due to the gravity of the situation, society now holds them responsible, considering roaming in deserted areas a crime punishable by the law of the jungle.
This painful reality is a legitimate outcome of the neglect of administrative, health, and security precautions for the return of citizens. The result has been reverse migration for those who have value and a new displacement, and acceptance of the status quo and fate for those forced by poverty and destitution to reside permanently, reconciling with the circumstances and forced to share the vectors of disease and the tools of death, a forced residency.
