A-Infos (en) Germany, Die Platform: Six months of solidarity work: Update on the campaign for the Sudanese anarchists (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The international campaign for the Sudanese anarchists began six months 
ago. We have now published a joint report with our sister organizations 
on the current status, which we are documenting here. ---- Content 
Warning: This text is about, among other things, sexual violence and 
death. ---- In August 2023, we, anarchist organizations from five 
continents, launched an international solidarity campaign. Its goal was 
and is to support Sudanese anarchists fleeing the war and repression in 
their country and to ensure that they arrive safely in a destination 
country of their choice. It has now been six months since our first call 
for solidarity. With this short text we want to give a report on the 
current situation and the continuation of our campaign.

First the most important thing: The majority of the small group of 
anarchist comrades with whom we have been in contact since 2022 and who 
we have been supporting on their way into exile since last year have now 
managed to leave Sudan. However, a few of the people we support are 
still in the country and continue to be active in the resistance 
committees there. Here they work, among other things, to support 
displaced people. The resistance committees help women in refugee camps 
to form their own committees to defend themselves. They also 
independently organize activities for children and young people because 
there is currently no school due to the war. But working under the 
military emergency law is dangerous. Our local comrades need support to 
leave the country because the political situation for activists and 
revolutionaries is becoming increasingly uncertain and there are many 
arbitrary arrests. The terrible news that recently reached us showed how 
dangerous the situation is: while trying to flee the capital Khartoum, 
our comrade Sarah was raped and murdered by members of the Rapid Support 
Forces (RSF). We share the deep pain of our comrades over this loss.

The fact that we have been able to carry out international solidarity 
work so far - albeit to an extremely limited extent - is thanks to the 
great support of many organizations and individuals from all parts of 
the world. With their help, we were able to significantly exceed the 
original fundraising goal of $2,000. At this point we would like to 
express our warmest thanks to all the people who supported this campaign 
and put their solidarity into practice!

However, the costs of our project also significantly exceeded 
expectations. The main reason for this is the extremely unstable and 
worsening situation in Sudan. The war between the Sudanese army and the 
RSF militia has been going on for almost a year now. With each passing 
month the fighting continues to intensify. Over 14,000 people have 
already been killed. More and more parts of the country are being drawn 
into the fighting, more and more blood is being shed, and more and more 
people are being displaced. Mass exodus and war have led to an 
unbearable famine that is getting worse every day. The lives of hundreds 
of thousands of people are at stake. It is a game that is also played by 
international actors. The weapons used by the RSF against the civilian 
population partly come from funding from the European Union, which used 
the militia as a border force in the service of migration defense for at 
least several years and upgraded it for this purpose and is very likely 
still doing so (1,2) . There is currently increasing evidence that the 
United Arab Emirates, for example, is supplying the RSF with highly 
developed weapons systems in order to keep the war alive (3).

In addition to the war in our own country, the repressive border regimes 
of the surrounding countries are also making it difficult for our 
comrades to escape from Sudan. The prices for VISAs, for example to 
enter Egypt, our northern neighbor, have skyrocketed. The few remaining 
transport routes have also become enormously more expensive. A large 
part of the money raised by the campaign has therefore already been 
spent. In order to enable our last contacts to escape from Sudan and to 
finance the onward journey of the other comrades, we need more money. We 
will therefore intensify our campaign efforts again in the next few 
months. In some regions, our organizations will spread the campaign, 
which has so far been primarily digital, much more locally.

to help break the blanket of silence spread by governments and their 
press about events there.

We call on all trade unions, social and political organizations and all 
individuals in solidarity to stand with the Sudanese anarchists and 
continue to support the campaign. Spread them throughout your 
organizations and movements. Use all public channels available to you. 
Donate to the campaign. Every form of help counts.

United against war and repression!
International solidarity with the Sudanese anarchists!

Sources:
1: 
https://www.sudanuprising.net/the-rapid-support-forces-and-the-european-unions-migration-control-policy-in-sudan.html
2:[https://migration-control.info/en/blog/how-the-european-union-finances-oppression/->https://migration-control.info/en/blog/how-the-european 
-union-finances-oppression/]
3: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/world/africa/sudan-war-united-arab-emirates-chad.html

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New stage of the solidarity campaign for the Sudanese anarchists!

In August 2023 we launched an international solidarity campaign together 
with our anarchist sister organizations. Its goal was and is to support 
Sudanese anarchists fleeing the war and repression in their country and 
to ensure that they arrive safely in a destination country of their 
choice. Recently, we and our sister organizations provided insight into 
the current status of the campaign in a new text and announced that we 
would continue it.

As a platform, we want to intensify our efforts in international 
solidarity work in the coming months, particularly in German-speaking 
countries. In this new stage, the campaign, which has so far been 
present primarily digitally, will be distributed much more locally in 
our region. To this end, we have had posters, flyers and stickers 
printed over the last few weeks, which we want to distribute in small 
quantities in political spaces throughout our region in order to make 
the campaign visible locally. We urgently need your help for this: Do 
you know an area in your city where people really need to hear about the 
solidarity campaign? Write us an email to kontakt@dieplattform.org and 
we will send you material! Of course, you will also find the materials 
on the information tables of our local groups in the future. You can 
also purchase the poster there for a donation to the campaign.

We also developed a lecture with the help of the great Sudanese 
activists from "Sudan Uprising" from Berlin. This is about the modern 
development of Sudan, the Sudanese revolution of 2018 and the current 
situation in the country. We want to give this lecture in as many cities 
as possible to draw attention to the country's largely unknown history 
and revolutionary movement. And to break through the blanket of silence 
about the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan. Of course, we 
will also use the events to collect donations for the comrades. Here too 
we depend on your help. Are you interested in organizing a lecture with 
us at your location? Then write us an email about that too! If we cannot 
come to your place, we will be happy to send you the materials for the 
event so that you can do it without us with a little training. The main 
thing is that the message spreads, more people find out about the 
campaign and decide to support the comrades with a donation.

You don't have a room where you can display materials or the opportunity 
to organize a lecture? Then simply donate yourself or spread the 
campaign to comrades and friends via your channels. Every form of help 
counts and is an important contribution to international solidarity. 
Only together can we manage to support our comrades on their way into exile!

United against war and repression!
Let's continue to support the Sudanese anarchists!

Authortheplatform
Published on18. April 2024
CategoriesGermany, International, Mobilization
KeywordsInternationalism, Sudan
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