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Jul 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Short 🧵following this quick explainer on the violence engulfing #Sudan 's Blue Nile.

I believe we should be careful from casually applying the term inter-communal violence since the root causes of conflicts in the peripheries is inherently political.

aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/19…
To elaborate, the coup authorities are adhering to a traditional power structure in Sudan, where the peripheries are militarized to extract resources in order to enrich a new elite class ruling in Khartoum.
Within this framework, communities often battle one another for local political power (often representation in the Native Administrations) in order to lay claim to resources in the land they share.
Militarization has leads to government players to co-opt some community leaders, or to accelerate recruitment in resource rich areas. This logic leads to a self-perpetuated cycle of politics in Sudan being waged through -- though not exclusively -- the barrel of the gun.
Addressing the root cause of these conflicts requires us to imagine a new political reality in Sudan, like the Resistance Committees have done. Indeed, people centered development -- not militarization and extraction -- would sensibly foster community cohesion in the long-term.
This is why the term 'inter-communal' violence is so misleading. The violence in Blue Nile is not due to an age-old hatred between tribes -- as the term implies.

It is the result of a political logic that has neglected, pillaged and militarized the margins since independence.

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