EDITORIAL: Time’s up for military junta in Khartoum
Rapid Support Forces (RSF) head General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (right). Sudan junta has tried to hide its actions behind RSF, a paramilitary group with links to the infamous Janjaweed militia used by Omar Bashir to pacify Darfur .PHOTO | REUTERS
For one fleeting moment after former Sudanese strongman Hassan Omar al-Bashir was removed from power in April, optimists dared hope that a military regime in sub-Saharan Africa could be ousted, with minimal collateral damage.
Bashir had capitulated after months of protests that were as peaceful as they were civil. The world had come to imagine that even a thick-skinned old school general had lost appetite for bloodshed and decided to call it quits.
