Nero in Khartoum: Realize the Shock!
Targeting prominent landmarks and destroying vital infrastructure with touristic significance in the capital, Khartoum, has been truly shocking, adding to the daily horrors of the war that has been raging on, unnoticed by the passage of time, for nearly half a year, resulting in destruction and displacement.
Justifications and mutual accusations surrounding the bombing and destruction of infrastructure and vital areas will not erase the fact that the continuation of this war will annihilate the nation, not just in its political aspect but will extend to the destruction of what remains of the infrastructure if the combatants and all societal forces do not pay attention to the consequences of the ongoing war, which lacks the minimum standards dictated by human conscience and the absent national sentiment until now on the absurd battleground.
Bombing and sabotage operations have affected newly constructed buildings, which have become symbols of the capital, such as the Nile Tower for Petroleum in the Muqran Al-Nilain area, the headquarters and buildings of the Ministry of Justice, the Tax Authority, and the General Authority for Standards and Metrology, in addition to random bombings in some markets and residential areas in various parts of Khartoum.
The history of wars has not overlooked recording many examples in which armies and military leaders deliberately destroyed cultures and heritages of many peoples around the world, but this mostly occurred in the context of colonization and imperialism, not among warring national groups under political pretexts!
Historically, the burning of Rome is associated with the madness of the Roman Emperor Nero, and the destruction of Berlin was stamped with the orders of Hitler during his final days in the mid-1940s.
Historians point out that destroying and erasing the culture of any people is sufficient to break and obliterate it. This can be understood in the context of substitution and replacement between at least two culturally different components.
The ongoing war in Sudan, with both parties not adhering to conventions that respect public rights, undoubtedly threatens cultural heritage, heritage records, manuscripts, documents, and everything rare and irreplaceable.
The continuation of the war and the disregard for its disastrous consequences will result not only in material losses but also in a severe loss of cultural heritage.
