The dirtiest tyrants are their supporters by Amjad Al-Sayed – Sudanese Alhadaf ‎

The dirtiest tyrants are their supporters‎

‎ Amjad Al-Sayed – Sudanese Alhadaf

‎In Sudan, tyrants were not the only ones who make diamonds, tyranny does not rule with a stick only, but flourishes when it finds someone to justify it and decorate it and cheer it throughout all stages of the modern history of this country from Abboud to Nimeiri and from Bashir to Burhan and Hemedti authoritarian regimes have been finding support from a popular base that denies oppression, applauds blood, demonizes victims and sanctifies the executioner.‎

‎Therefore, when we say the dirtiest tyrants are their supporters, we do not call insults, but we put our hands on the open wound that is defective in us, not in them alone.‎

‎Every corrupt authority that passes, every coup that takes place, and every war that flares up, finds among us those who adorn it, keep silent about it, or collude with it for the benefit of a tribe for position or fear, and in return, you often find no one to sacrifice or say no, except for a minority that pays the price double its life, blood and isolation.‎

‎In Khartoum, as in El Fasher, in Blue Nile, as in Al-Jazeera, the masses are broken under the same mistakes. Supporting the Sultan, not the right. Raising the slogan of safety in return for obedience. Believing the promises of the military and authorizing injustice in the name of stability.‎

‎When we look at the situation of Sudan today, we realize that what happened was not a conflict between an army and a militia, but a collective moral fall, the revolution has turned into a market for interests, the division of power has become a priority over the division of bread, and some political elites were not cleaner than the generals, but often formed a political cover for the filth of the military.‎

‎This devastation would not have happened had it not been for the fact that there are millions of Sudanese, intentionally or ignorantly, who followed tyrants, danced on the wounds of others, and placed sectarianism and supranational regionalism.‎

‎In the end, no one survives, not the displaced, not the Saktun, not the supporters. Tyranny, when it burns, does not distinguish between a hand that applauded it and a hand that resisted war, and it does not differentiate between those who supported it and those who opposed it.‎

‎Tyrants are not born out of thin air. They come out of our culture. Our upbringing, our schools, our mosques, our Facebook pages, and our WhatsApp groups. Therefore, there is no point in cursing tyrants. We must curse what we have entrenched in our minds from the reverence of the leader, from accepting injustice, from turning politics into a tribe, and from belonging to a pledge of allegiance.‎

‎Acknowledging that tyranny lives in us is the first path to liberation from it‎

‎Let’s start from scratch with ourselves‎

‎The real revolution starts from within. Of courage in speaking the truth. From education to criticism, not reverence. From institutions that build awareness, not boast it, from a media that exposes the crime that does not justify it, from a people who do not lie to themselves and do not justify the destruction of their homeland in the name of necessity‎

‎In the end, our problem was not with an individual ruler but with an audience like him