The Face of Truth | Ibrahim Shiglawi The Spoils of Death… A Silence Equal to the Tragedy

According to what was reported by the Sudan Sawa website on Sunday regarding the discovery of the bodies of 25 Sudanese migrants in a remote desert area along the border route between Algeria and Morocco, and what the forensic report, as cited by the website, revealed about some of the bodies having undergone the removal of human organs, we appear to be facing a sorrowful moment that reflects the collapse of humanitarian protection and regional security, where human beings have become expendable targets in the economy of organized crime.

This incident reflects a dangerous transformation in the patterns of irregular migration. It is no longer merely a perilous journey but has become a well-organized system managed by transnational networks possessing the means to turn the bodies of those fleeing war and poverty into commodities traded in a black market that recognizes neither law, nor borders, nor humanity. At the heart of this tragedy, Sudanese people today find themselves confronting a painful and shameful reality imposed by the war, with all that it has caused in terms of the collapse of political and security stability and the disintegration of social protection systems.

Reading this event in isolation from the current Sudanese context remains an incomplete reading. The war into which the country descended following the failure of the political consensus process did not merely produce conflict within Sudan’s borders; it also reshaped population movements beyond them, pushing thousands of civilians onto unsafe routes where internal fragility intersects with international criminal networks skilled at exploiting moments of national crisis. It is precisely at this intersection that the tragedy emerges: when a person leaves their homeland fleeing death, only to confront another, more organized and colder form of killing.

What further compounds the weight of this tragedy is not only the magnitude of the crime itself but also what it reveals about public awareness. In some Sudanese media outlets, the news passed almost unnoticed, in no way matching the scale of the disaster or the depth of the shock. This silence is itself part of the tragedy. It reflects a state of exhaustion that has afflicted people under the burden of war, to the point where successive catastrophes no longer leave their mark on public consciousness.

From this perspective, one cannot overlook the fact that the humanitarian and security collapse Sudan is experiencing today was not isolated from a political trajectory that failed to manage its internal disputes, embraced regional agendas and ambitions, and subsequently descended into the logic of force that led to the war of April 15, 2023, resulting in the disintegration of state institutions and the erosion of their capacity to provide protection.

However, this painful historical context, despite the political responsibilities it entails, does not absolve the current state of its duty. The government, through all its institutions, remains obligated to launch a serious and transparent investigation into this tragedy, to move urgently through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the countries concerned to uncover the circumstances, and to communicate with the victims’ families, given that the lives of Sudanese citizens are not merely a humanitarian issue that can be ignored but a sovereign and moral responsibility that cannot be delayed.

What happened in that desert cannot be reduced to a humanitarian tragedy alone. Rather, it is a mirror reflecting a deeply troubled political reality, where war intersects with migration and internal collapse extends into tragedies of death beyond national borders. In such contexts, crime ceases to be an isolated act and instead becomes a structural consequence of the absence of the state and the reduction of human beings to a value of zero within the equation of conflict.

These events reflect the transformation of irregular migration from a dangerous crossing into a transnational operational system managed by organized networks that turn people fleeing war and poverty into commodities in a black market that recognizes no law.

At the heart of this stands the Sudanese people, confronting a catastrophic reality imposed by war. Yet reading this reality should open the way toward redefining the state, considering the war

as a defining moment that requires a complete break with what came before it and a move toward a new national project founded on partnership rather than domination, and on reconstruction rather than conflict.

The fundamental problem lies not in resources but in the absence of consensus around a unifying vision that makes governance an instrument of security and the economy a path to productivity, thereby enabling the country, should the political will exist, to reposition itself on the basis of mutual interests rather than the logic of necessity.

According to #The_Face_of_Truth, “The Spoils of Death” is not merely a shocking title but a description of a harsh reality: that when the human body is uprooted from its national context, it may become a resource in the transnational economy of violence, and that the silence surrounding this tragedy is no less dangerous than the crime itself, because it grants it the opportunity to be repeated without accountability and makes the tragedy capable of being replicated elsewhere.

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Thursday, July 2, 2026

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