- Former US envoy to Sudan: Internal figures and external parties pushed Al-Burhan to dissolve the transitional institutions
Cameron Hudson, former US President Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, said that there are personalities and parties inside and outside Sudan that may be behind the recent decisions of the Sudanese army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, according to which he dissolved the institutions of the transitional government.
During an interview with Al-Masiya on Al-Jazeera Mubasher, Hudson spoke about the situation in Sudan and expectations in light of the failure of attempts to resolve the political crisis.
In response to a question about who pushed the Sudanese army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, to take these measures, he said that there are several people in his circle who may have done so, referring to reports that spoke about external parties who contributed to this.
And he spoke in this regard about reports that Al-Burhan traveled to Egypt and met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and heard from him “assurances of support,” expressing his belief that what he did was not on his own.
Hudson expressed his belief that the military authority in Sudan is comfortable in its position and does not feel pressure from the street and from the forces of freedom and change, and that it is continuing with arrests and clinging to the reins of power.
He said that this means that "all international efforts to find a solution did not prompt the military leadership to think carefully about what can be done to reverse the miscalculation" it had done, he said.
He said that what the military authority is doing is contrary to the aspirations of the Sudanese people, calling for more pressure to restore the civilian government headed by Hamdok and to return to the democratic path.
Regarding the seriousness of the West, and the United States in particular, to pressure Al-Burhan to reverse his decisions, Hudson said that the strategy of America and its allies is a policy of "indirect pressure" on the military. He said that if the United States had wanted to pressure directly, it would have imposed sanctions on leaders and companies, and would have considered Military Intelligence a "terrorist organization", but these measures have not been taken at the present time.
In response to a question about the papers in the possession of the United States to influence the military, Hudson referred to the suspension of American aid worth millions of dollars, explaining that Al-Burhan's office was aware of this, but he saw that the cost of not carrying out this "coup" would be more than the value of that aid.
Regarding his expectations about the future of the crisis, Hudson expressed his belief that Al-Burhan is trying to find an exit from this situation, but added, “The evidence and the military will try to manipulate to preserve power,” explaining that the revolutionaries who went out against the former regime, brought down Al-Bashir, but they did not overthrow the regime, while The military brought down al-Bashir, but they want to protect themselves now, and they are going ahead in every way to get out of any predicament they might face.
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