History leaves no room for doubt. Across its long struggle, the Sudanese people have offered extraordinary sacrifices for freedom and dignity. Libraries in Sudan, the Arab world, and beyond are filled with stories of those who sealed the cause of liberty with their blood, who gave their lives, families, wealth, time, and futures without hesitation or compromise.
Today’s confrontation between Sudan’s popular will and military dictatorship feels almost divinely ordained, as though this people were chosen to serve as a living lesson for all nations seeking freedom, dignity, and self respect. History is not written by brute force alone, but by those who endure, who pay the price knowingly and courageously, and whose just causes are engraved in light.
In April once again, the people renewed their simple and unmistakable demands, freedom, freedom, and freedom. The military response followed its familiar script: more killing, more brutality, live bullets fired into the chests of unarmed civilians, and arrests that spared neither women nor children. Yet the will did not break. The flame did not dim. Sudanese people have long known that freedom is never granted, it is taken.
What the military and those defeated morally and nationally failed to grasp is that their continuous provocations forged today’s unbreakable revolutionary will. That will has shaken the thrones of tyrants and disturbed their sleep. It has also become a source of inspiration worldwide, praised in many languages as a symbol of dignity and resistance that has far surpassed Sudan’s borders.
It is increasingly clear that SAF commander Abdel Fattah al Burhan knows he is ploughing the sea. Everything he does is futile. The revolution, however long it takes, is moving towards victory. The will of peoples cannot be defeated. Sudanese resilience stands almost without parallel, having endured a vast military machine armed with American, Russian, and Iranian weapons, alongside an array of imported crowd control tools.
Investigative reporting by media revealed something unprecedented in modern history, military grade weapons, including armour piercing and anti aircraft systems, were used against peaceful protesters. Weapons designed for war were aimed at civilians whose only defences were chants and determination.
Sudanese people understand the nature of dictatorship. A regime built on blood will kill its own citizens to remain in power. Precious lives, young men and women dreaming of a dignified future, were cut down mercilessly. Mothers, sisters, elders, and workers fell to a killing apparatus that mistook brutality for permanence, encouraged by merchants of religion who dressed violence in false sanctity.
The governing mindset today remains exclusionary, arrogant, and fuelled by hollow claims of superiority. On Wednesday, 6 April 2022, the people shattered that illusion, flooding the streets from every home and neighbourhood, united as one body and one heart. That moment revived the memory of October and reaffirmed that revolutions in Sudan are never erased, only delayed.
In conclusion, this revolution will not stop, no matter how many enemies gather against it, no matter how many tools of repression are deployed, and no matter how openly betrayal is performed in the halls of military power. These scenes will pass. What endures is the people’s will.
Despite the imbalance in weapons and power, Sudan’s people, armed with awareness, resilience, and belief in the justice of their cause, will reach their goal. The struggle against tyranny, however long, ends inevitably with the victory of those who demand a dignified life and have paid for it with their lives.
The ultimate loser, cursed by future generations, will be the tyrant who violated sanctities, spilled blood, and ruled through terror. Justice, delayed but certain, awaits those who chose power over humanity.
