The war erupting between yesterday’s coup alliance partners—today’s enemies from Bashir regime’s security committee leadership—threatens to derail the revolution, circumventing its slogans and goals. They’ve unleashed armies in an unprecedented war of destruction, massacres, and heinous crimes, with effects stretching from Khartoum to Darfur states, including the great massacre in Geneina city.
What our country witnesses confirms the validity of our positions rejecting any military role in leadership, and our steadfast commitment to justice and accountability. The absence of these, along with shortcuts in negotiating with the sit-in dispersal criminals across Sudan’s states, empowered remnants of the defunct Salvation regime, opening wide doors for counter-revolutionary forces to seize power. Each side—represented by Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces leadership—then sought to impose its narrow vision and monopolize power completely, in a war evoking the Salvation era’s war crimes.
This destructive war marks the Islamic Movement’s final stand in this country, exposing all the covers and lies cloaking the loyal SAF leadership. It’s also the militia’s last gasp, revealing atrocities that shame humanity. We refuse to fall into the trap of siding with any party, knowing our people’s interests lie in blocking war advocates—from Islamic Movement zealots and militia criminals—and standing as an impregnable barrier defending our people’s right to dignified life, rejecting all crimes against civilians by both sides, who proved irresponsible and defiant of international humanitarian law governing wartime civilian protection, public facilities, POW treatment, and prohibiting looting, plunder, and physical assaults on detainees and civilians.
We monitor painful local, regional, and international movements aiming for a peaceful solution to stop the war and hand power to a civilian government, per the Saudi-US initiative and IGAD/AU initiatives sharing the same pursuit. To avoid the popular movement facing externally imposed conditions, we affirm our firm position as follows:
- Removal of all Security Committee members from SAF and RSF from any state or military leadership positions, and holding them accountable for all crimes they planned, orchestrated, and ordered—from sit-in dispersals and the October 25 military coup to this war and their role in it.
- Forming a national government of independent revolutionary and patriotic competencies to fully assume power, with SAF and all law enforcement under its authority.
- Announcing a new internal security apparatus under fresh leadership, to receive all General Intelligence Service documents, assets, and properties; the new leadership presents a plan for GIS personnel within one month, opening enlistment.
- Forming a national committee to handle:
- a. Immediate reinstatement of arbitrarily/public interest-dismissed military/police personnel; seconding some to reform/purge these bodies of political/ideological biases, reform military doctrine, and implement armed forces/movements integration.
- b. Guidelines for securing RSF and armed movement members unproven in war crimes, ending non-regular arms and forces.
- c. National vision for war aftermath and damage remediation.
- d. Investigation committee on war causes/perpetrators, with accountability.
- e. Appointing Chief Justice, Attorney General from dismissed upright judiciary/prosecution known for integrity, justice, democracy, rule of law; task them with reviewing/purging these institutions of regime loyalists and corruption nests.
- f. Justice/Compensation Commission with special prosecution for war crimes investigation, damage assessment (public/private/citizen property), compensation plans.
- g. Nationwide grassroots process to elect neighborhood committees as basis for local councils, state legislatures, interim parliament for law review/policy approval/state institution reform oversight.
- h. Judicial circuit for Salvation era crimes, with specialized prosecution (human rights violations, extrajudicial killings, corruption, public asset disposal, etc.), covering all cases from regime rise to fall.
- i. Handover of ICC-wanted Salvation leaders (military/civilian).
- j. Civilian government launches regionally/internationally supported national program to repair war damage; creates permanent disaster fund for reparations/compensation/emergency aid to affected areas, covering all Sudan war victims.
We present this vision as a roadmap for all forces to review and develop into a collective position upheld by all trade union, revolutionary, and political forces—as foundation for ending the war and addressing revolution’s core issues, which defunct regime remnants and RSF militia seek to undermine via this war aimed at power seizure and turning back Sudan’s clock.