Let Us Walk in the Funeral of False Struggle
Face of Truth
Ibrahim Shglawi
It seems that if Hegel had been able to witness the Nairobi dialogues, he would have laughed long and whispered: “Here is falsehood stripping itself bare.” In one of the strangest moments in Sudanese political history, the leaders of the “cardboard struggle” sat in front of the Al-Hadath camera—not to convince anyone of their cause, but to unknowingly sign a declaration of their complete emptiness of the values and principles they claim to uphold.
The dialogue turned into a courtroom, the anchor into a judge, while the “defendants” insisted on exposing themselves through their confused speech. Between those who could not identify who committed the genocide, those who viewed massacres as political traditions, and those who measured the scale of crimes against the standards of the former regime—masks fell one by one, and the slogans of “rights” plunged into a well of darkness and oblivion.
Thus, the series of interviews conducted by the talented journalist Doha Al-Zuhairi for Al-Hadath Channel from Nairobi offered a shocking test for public awareness regarding discourses that had long hidden behind false resistance. These interviews were not mere media appearances but critical moments of confrontation that revealed a horrifying political vacuum behind faces long adorned with the slogans of liberation and struggle. They proved that those who ally against their homeland will not be saved by eloquence when the moment of truth arrives.
Amid the chaos left behind by the war of April 15, 2023, rare moments emerge to reshape public awareness and open a true window for understanding the political scene with all its contradictions. This is precisely what Doha Al-Zuhairi achieved through her series of interviews broadcast recently from Nairobi. They were not just casual interviews, but intense political interrogations, during which masks were pulled off faces long hidden behind fabricated resistance narratives—revealing defeated expressions, punctured stories, and a false history soon to be erased by time.
With her high professional sense and deep understanding of the Sudanese reality, Doha managed to turn the interviews into a public trial. She needed no more than three questions to bring down the so-called leaders: Abdul Wahid Al-Nur, Abdulaziz Al-Hilu, Suleiman Sandal Haqar, and Mubarak Mubarak Salim. Direct, concise, and uncompromising questions led the keen viewer straight into the heart of the contradictions these figures carry in both their positions and their rhetoric.
When Abdul Wahid was asked whether the massacres against the Masalit people amounted to genocide, he answered “yes,” only to then backtrack, unable to name the perpetrators. As for Sandal, supposedly a son of Darfur, he justified his alliance with the Rapid Support Forces—who committed massacres in Zamzam and besieged El Fasher—with vague talk about massacres, history, and Omar al-Bashir. Al-Hilu, once viewed as a man of principle, resorted to comparing one genocide to another to justify his alliance with the executioner. They all evaded the truth and all demonstrated a blatant moral and political failure.
These interviews didn’t just expose them—they exposed the very idea they represent: the exploitation of the cause for opportunistic alliances and the bartering of innocent blood for hollow political gains. The interviews dismantled every attempt to rebrand these individuals as icons, proving they possess neither a vision nor a consistent moral stance. They are merely tools in a fragile alliance weakened by its own logic even before being undermined by facts.
What Doha Al-Zuhairi, an Egyptian journalist well-versed in the Sudanese scene, accomplished is not just a remarkable media act—it is a profound contribution to deconstructing the political landscape and presenting it to the public as it truly is: stripped of slogans and full of contradictions. With her camera, she illuminated dark corners and proved that many so-called “leaders” cannot withstand a single honest question.
Some parties may have hoped these interviews would inject artificial life into a crumbling alliance or generate media momentum for forces that have lost their moral credit—but the outcome was entirely the opposite. The mask fell, and Sudanese people came to realize that those they had mistakenly seen as leaders were in reality mercenaries and agents, and that those who raised slogans were nothing more than tools in a project devoid of patriotism.
#Doha_Al_Zuhairi didn’t just interview them; she confronted them with the mirror of their conscience and left them to fall one by one under the weight of their contradictions. For that, she deserves praise—not just for her professionalism, but for her courage in exposing what was hidden.
According to what we see through #Face_of_Truth, we can say: These interviews came at a pivotal moment in Sudan’s history—at a time when the armed forces are steadily advancing to reclaim sovereignty and decision-making, dismantling day by day the pillars of the foreign-backed project that sought to fragment the state. From within this scene, those interviews helped expose the symbols of a mercenary alliance and the hollowness of their slogans, confirming that the battle for awareness is no less important than the battle on the field—and that national sovereignty is protected by both arms and truth… not by following the funeral of a traitorous struggle.