Asylum squared... Invisible tragedies
Osman Fadlallah
Many tragedies of this war are invisible, covered by battle dust and muted by the whiz of the cannon. We cross it when you hit our face through a story told by a friend or written in a Post on a page in a home place in the Mark space called Facebook, and that owned by Elon Musk the X.
The war has grinded people, and its stone continues to swirl on millions of people. Perhaps the first to be elected for grinding are daily workers, drummers and workers of the so-called marginal professions, who were drowned out by the Khartoum side in the Arab and other markets, along with displaced children who were taken from the autumn water drains.
A small part of the tragedy that has been felt is the failure of State employees and many private sector workers to pay their salaries.
However, the greatest tragedy of this war is the tragedy of my countrys women, who are part of all these aforementioned groups. They are unpaid workers, food vendors who have stopped their livelihoods, displaced women who have lost their numbness and privacy. Above all, they are mothers who kill their children or marry them from one side or another, if not victims.
A liar who says he knows how many women were subjected to sexual abuse and physical violence during this absurd war. Some attempts by the Governments Anti-Violence against Women Unit revealed in the last published census last October that cases of sexual violence against women had reached 136 documented cases, including 14 girls, 68 in Khartoum, 47 in Nyala and 21 in El Geneina, while cases of "slavery" (sexual exploitation) had reached 29.
There is no accurate count of enforced disappearances. Some organizations informally estimate that Khartoum alone has witnessed at least 80 disappearances of a girl and a woman, including minors, some of whom have returned and others are unaccounted for. Families refuse to respond to organizations about providing any information in this regard for fear of "scandal".
People recount stories of infants in this aspect. public circulation, however, is as taboo as the prevalence of the sex trade, The period of this war is remarkably unprecedented in Khartoums history. Social media ", many women seeking help through social media complain of harassment from the site-goers of being tempted to meet their need for sexual services.
All these tragedies are deplorable and ugly, but they are dwarfed by the tragedies of the Yemeni and Syrian refugees who have taken refuge from the Sudan, escaping wars in their own countries, followed by the war in the Sudan.
Believe who said, "Tragedy if repeated has turned into a pleasure." Although it has been 7 months since the war, this group of people is still sleeping in the streets, schools and public parks ", awaiting the unfulfilled evacuation. They lost what they had gained during their years of asylum in the Sudan, and found themselves stranded, not knowing what to do and where to go.
"There is no money, no shelter, no homeland to which they return." Muhyiddin Marei, a Syrian stranded in Port Sudan and the owner of the former auto-decorating fair, earlier quoted at berth 22, describes the situation of Syrians in the region, stating that he had to leave two cars and three shops in Khartoum to save his youngsters from the Holocaust.
The biggest shock was the evacuation "lie", as the Saudi vessels announced by only 200 Syrians carried, and then declared Syrians and Yemenis excluded. Damascus sent two aircraft carrying owners of large factories free of charge. Tickets were then offered at 500 to 700 for one chair and one large chair, such as the junior, and then purchased by travel agencies to increase to 600 and 700, some of which amounted to 1,300.
Families in Syria sold their cars and homes to return their relatives. Those who could afford them left at such a high cost, and the rest became hostages to Port Sudans sidewalks and trapped between the war in Khartoum and the exorbitant ticket that repatriates them to their already fractured homelands.
Someone, arriving in a neighbouring country by smuggling says that he don’t no what to do in the stability of his new asylum. "I got here with no money and no legal status. I now rely on a little knowledge. Some are guaranteed temporary accommodation for my family, others have paid for until I have made my order. “He continues: "But I consider myself lucky that I have some of the money that has saved me from taking this risk, but there are those in Port Sudan and allies who dont have the price of one meal. Living on benefits of Sudanese in need of their appointees ".
