Samstag, 08.06.2019 / 12:03 Uhr

Sudan: Die Frauen der Revolution

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Thomas von der Osten-Sacken

Vogue stellt drei Frauen vor, die in vorderster Reihe gegen das Bashir-Regime gekämpft haben und sich nun gegen den Militärrat, der gerade die Protestbewegung zusammenschießen lässt, und für eine zivile Regierung engagieren:

Despite the oppressive Public Order Law, a moral prohibition that can arbitrarily punish women for "indecent acts" such as wearing trousers or walking alone, and despite government orders for militia to target them in shocking ways, women powerfully form the vast majority of protests. They have refused to let energy lull, instead becoming the loudest voices carrying out the most rebellious actions.

Derweil wird auf den Straßen Khartoums und anderer Städte des Landes scharf geschossen und die Demokratiebewegung, die auch eine gegen ein islamistisches Terrorregime ist, wird alleine gelassen. Zumindest vom Westen, denn hinter dem Militär stehen die wichtigen regionalen Verbündeten der USA und auch Europas: Saudi Arabien, Ägypten und die Emirate.

So gibt es nicht einmal symbolische Unterstützung, wie der Econonmist gestern beklagte:

The United States has squarely aligned itself with the civilian protest movement, but behind the scenes there is a near total absence of U.S. diplomacy. Facing the grim prospect that Sudan’s faint democratic hope is evaporating, why is the United States not doing all that it can to ensure that after decades of advocacy and diplomacy Sudan doesn’t go the way of the other 80 percent of cases that don’t enjoy a transition to democracy? In countless tweets—which pass for U.S. policy on Sudan and much of the rest of the world these days—the United States has squarely aligned itself with the civilian protest movement, but behind the scenes there is a near total absence of U.S. diplomacy. The country has not deployed any of the funding or technical support tools to help democratic protesters become better organized, unified, and effective in negotiating with a better trained and resourced counterpart that would have increased the democrats’ abilities to face down their military foe at the negotiating table.