The Face of Truth | Ibrahim Shaglawi Collective Consciousness and the Shaping of the Peace Equation

 

The Sudanese taking to the streets, inside the country and abroad, was not an ordinary event; rather, it constituted a fully-fledged political act in all its dimensions and implications. It redrew legitimacy and clearly defined the contours of the peace that Sudanese people seek. At a moment when regional and international pressures intersected, and initiatives multiplied in attempts to leap over the core of the crisis, the street emerged to declare its position unequivocally: no negotiations with the militia, no guardianship over the national decision, and no peace outside the framework of the state.

 

This sweeping popular scene cannot be separated from the roadmap announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chairman of the Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, when he placed peace in its proper context: a peace conditioned on dismantling the militia and implementing the Jeddah Agreement signed on May 11, 2023, as the sole reference for security and humanitarian arrangements. An agreement that explicitly stipulated the withdrawal of the militia from cities, the surrender of its weapons, and the assembly of its forces in designated camps to determine their fate according to the logic of the state, not the logic of imposing a fait accompli.

 

Despite the clarity of this position, internal and external voices continued to attempt to outbid the army, portraying it as a “hijacked” institution or one isolated from society, in an effort to strip its stance of moral and political legitimacy. However, what occurred on December 13 shattered these narratives all at once and proved that what the army commander expressed was not the vision of a detached leadership, but an accurate translation of a broad popular will that does not wish to see the militia in the day after the war—neither as a partner, nor as a de facto force, nor as a political component under any name or title.

 

Sudanese people took to the streets to renew the mandate—not to fight for the sake of fighting, but to decisively settle the battle of dignity as a battle of existence. They went out to affirm that the army does not fight alone, but rests on a vast social reservoir stretching from cities to villages, from the center to the peripheries, and from within the country to the diaspora. Here, the slogan “One Army… One People” transforms from a mobilizing chant into a realistic political equation, redefining the balance of power and the meaning of legitimacy in a time of war and abandonment.

 

In this context, the popular demand to classify the Rapid Support Forces militia as a terrorist organization was not a rhetorical whim or an emotional outburst, but a logical outcome of widespread violations and systematic crimes that targeted civilians in Khartoum, Al-Jazira, Darfur, and Kordofan—killings, looting, displacement, and terrorizing—which shattered any claim of the possibility of integrating this force into the future of the state. When the street raises this demand, it draws a clear line between the logic of the state and the logic of chaos, and between peace as a fragile political settlement and peace as the full restoration of the rule of law.

 

This moment derives its political significance from transcending the domestic sphere to reach the region and the world. The message sent yesterday by millions of Sudanese was clear: we stand with our army, support the roadmap it announced for peace, and reject any path that bypasses the Jeddah Agreement or empties it of its substance. It is a message that disrupts the calculations of those who bet on exhausting the internal front, or on marketing the militia as a de facto reality that must be lived with, or carried into the day after the war.

 

Regionally, this popular alignment recalibrates the equations of neighboring states and affirms that Sudan is not a country awaiting guardianship, but a state fighting to restore its cohesion. Internationally, this momentum grants the Sudanese state a political and moral pressure card that strengthens its narrative that what is taking place is a proxy war targeting resources and sovereignty, as acknowledged by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, when he stated: “The war in Sudan is being fought by proxy in pursuit of natural resources,” an admission that narrows the space for distortion and closes the doors to hollow neutrality.

 

In sum, December 13 becomes a pivotal milestone in Sudanese collective consciousness, as a founding moment in which peace, patriotism, and the meaning of alignment are redefined. A peace not built on bargains, but on dismantling the causes of war. A patriotism not measured by slogans, but by readiness to bear the cost of the state. And an alignment that knows no gray areas, because the moment cannot accommodate them.

 

Thus, according to #The_Face_of_Truth, when the street spoke, it did not merely lift the burden from the army; it reaffirmed the equation: no militia in the day after the war, no state without its army, and no peace outside the will of a people who decided to write their future through action, not waiting. That consciousness alone reshapes the peace equation.

 

Wishing you continued well-being and good health.

 

Sunday, 14 November 2025

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