SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian - Omar al-Bashir’s trial will be a sham, but Sudan’s revolution is alive and well
Nesrine Malik argues that the Sudanese uprising has “unleashed huge political energy,” although the charges that deposed president Al Bashir faces are a “[sketchy] gesture towards accountability,” noting that Al Bashir is accused of a single count of corruption despite “30 years of ethnically targeted massacres, extrajudicial torture and executions.”
Given that the Al Bashir’s regime – replaced by the military council that “stood in the shadows behind him” –captured the state so completely, Malik argues that the prospect of “piecemeal erosion followed by rebuilding,” is likelier than revolution. Thus, the power-sharing agreement is said to reflect the opening of “windows of political change”
With the Sudanese uprising resisting the June 3 massacre and the internet blackout, Malik concludes that the military can either compromise, or “go down the Egyptian path” of “sleeping with one eye open all the time in a police state, cursed by insecurity.”