Sudan's jails and torture systems are a key part of its war system. atarnetwork.com/wp-content/upl
oads/2024/04/ATAR-English-Issue-3-The-labyrinth.pdf#:~:text=When%20the%20military%20tortured%20Mustafa%20Hassanain%2C%20a,rural%20warzone%2C%20secret%20torture%20for%20the%20capital
.
Latest from acjps.org - Diqris Prison, just outside Nyala, South #Darfur is holding 13,000 people in severely overcrowded conditions, with almost no food +
Tomorrow marks 11 years since the Saudi-led coalition began their brutal assault on Yemen.
More than 377,000 people were killed.
Today, the UK continues to support US-Israeli attacks on Yemen.
🗓️ 26th March
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Downing Street
caat.org.uk/events/yemen...
LUPD is going round the shelters, trying to support displaced people with disabilities. Their work is badly needed, and it's an antidote to all the poisons released by the latest atttacks. You can help them too
But this time around, they're at the end of their tether. Some areas are cutting off access to displaced people, as Israel works up sectarian tensions. Most of Beirut is jam-packed. And now as then, people overwhelmed with the trauma of displacement don't welcome needier people
LUPD has spent decades advocating for accessible schools, in part because schools in Lebanon become shelters when the country is attacked. They're always badgering ministries and UN types to make simple investments in accessibility
LUPD is still creative about challenging discrimination based on disability - and on the way, they challenge sectarianism too. Because all people with disabilities are equal, people of every sect are equal too. But the latest outrages against Lebanon are testing the country again
Many years on, the activists reminisced cheerfully about uneasy arrivals in IDP centres - displaced people feared needier people turning up - and their spectacular upending of disability discrimination, when they started handing out food, instead of demanding it.
The Lebanese Union for People with Physical Disabilities has been a big part of my life for years. They started out as young activists in a long-ago civil war, delivering supplies to displacement centres from wheelchairs
20% of Lebanon's population has been displaced. Israeli attacks threaten specific religious groups, and when they're told to flee, the places they run to fear that bombs will follow them. And about a quarter of them are older or disabled. That's when it gets harder
Latest in Atar: Food aid volume is declining in Sudan. Food aid provides a few kilos of food a year to target groups. It's not food aid, but old ideals of solidarity, inscribed into old production systems, which are keeping Sudan alive. atarnetwork.com?p=22340&utm_...
Then as now, militias were created by militarizing and criminalizing members of pastoralist groups, misrepresenting the entire group as naturally warlike, and using the militia name and the group name interchangeably - 'The Rizeigat'
Now what's needed is a history of militias used by the Egyptian Army - for example, the Egyptian Army's 1916 campaign to conquer Darfur, which relied on militias from drawn from pastoralist tribes whom the colonialists deemed warlike aberfoylesecurity.com?p=1206
@3arabawy.substack.com's conclusion should be read by everyone following the crisis in Sudan right now
But the Brits replace the Egyptian Army with the SDF, shortly after the 1919 Egyptian revolution, which brought the self-determination discourse of the post-WW1 Versailles conference into everyday politics in Egypt and Sudan - Britain feared the Egyptian Army would bring those ideas to Sudan +
As he often does, @3arabawy.substack.com grounds his analysis in an eye-opening re-reading of a forgotten text, this time, Abd al-Rahman al-Faki's 'History of the Sudan Defence Force.' The forerunner of the SDF was the Brit-officered Egyptian Army, which conquered and ruled Sudan +
READ THIS! Superb article from @3arabawy.substack.com on the Sudanese army's colonial origins. The army survives by reproducing the racialized fragmentations pioneered by the colonial state. One of the best accounts of the army I've ever read! + 3arabawy.substack.com/p/egypt-empire
Rendition of the anticolonial love poem written by Khalil Farah (the name 'Azza' used as a replacement for Sudan to evade detection by the colonial government). Happy Valentine's Day ❤️🩹
Meanwhile, the Australian government consolidates its commercial links with this merchant of death and state terror, Palantir. #auspol
Syrian authorities have begun evacuating al-Hol camp of Syrians. They are being transferred to a temporary camp in Aleppo in preparation for their return to their areas of origin. Only Iraqi families remain in the camp, awaiting repatriation to Iraq…
— Zain al-Abidin
x.com/i/status/202...
a street flooded with thousands of marchers.
Yesterday upwards of 300 million people across India held a national strike.
Numerous unions and farmers' groups flooded the streets, shutting down large segments of the economy.
One of the key demands was a withdrawal from the trade deal struck with the Trump administration.
Not all women are aware of the laws regarding abandonment and remarriage. It's a very difficult time for these women to face this grave injustice - military rule and constant war are not conducive to women's rights
In one case, ACJPS reports that the woman was abandoned by her husband in 2019, after giving birth. Sudan is a place of multiple separations, because of war, poverty, and a production system that relies heavily on migrant workers, and many women get separated from their husbands +
The Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies just published this report of two courts in Sudan sentencing women to death for adultery acjps.org/publications/s
udanese-courts-sentence-two-women-to-death-by-stoning-for-adultery-despite-international-obligations
+
Many people say that Janjaweed - the 'devils on horseback' term for rural militias that committed the first Darfur genocides of the twenty-first century - is a compound of Jiim 3 - the Arabic translation for the German G3 rifle - and jawaad, or horseback /
If you want a sneak peek, read this great article from @romandeckert.bsky.social about how German arms shaped Sudanese wars of today rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
+
Can't wait to read part 2 of this article, which brings the story up to date with an account of the German role in twentieth and twenty-first century wars in Sudan +
Deckert's work uncovers the way German mercantile colonialists mobilized formerly enslaved Sudanese troops as mercenaries to carry out East African genocides - a key state formation strategy in the African interior, which in some places remains a state-maintenance strategy +
Ten years later, the British, French, Belgians and Germans were all waiting to pounce on South Sudan. The genocidal Belgian king Leopold snatched an enclave around Juba in 1894. 'C'est mon panache' said the monster, when the British asked him why he wanted a stretch of Nile waters +
He starts out with a great overview of precolonial German travel literature in Sudan, and German machinations in the Scramble for Africa, regulated by the Berlin Conference of 1884 +
