Sudan

[Schneemann]

Nochmals zur Rolle von Wagner im Sudan:

Kill, terrorize, expel: Testimonies detail atrocities by Wagner-backed militia in Sudan

(CNN) - Cries pierced the air as a car full of women and children crossed into Chad from war-torn Sudan. A woman, in the late stages of pregnancy, lay in the backseat, lifeless and soaked in blood. Her children wailed at her feet.

“I sat next to her in the car,” said Butheina Nourin, describing her perilous escape from Sudan’s Darfur region alongside the dead woman. “Her name was Fatima. I don’t know her surname.” Fighters from the powerful Sudanese paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and their armed allies manned checkpoints along their route, Nourin said, demanding money from every passenger in exchange for safe passage. [...]

The interest, influence and material support of Russia’s notorious paramilitary group Wagner in the region is also exacerbating the violence, CNN has found. According to intelligence officials, eyewitnesses at key transit points and CNN’s open-source analysis, Wagner has been arming the RSF using supply routes that run through the Darfur region.“ What is not in doubt is Wagner’s role in this, it has been supplying the RSF with arms and supplies through Darfur,” one Western intelligence official told CNN. “It follows Wagner’s modus operandi. Create chaos and seize power,” another intelligence source active in the region added. [...]

Armaments appear to have been shuttled into Sudan through key transit points: Russia’s air and naval base in the Syrian coastal region of Latakia, Wagner bases in Libya, and Bangui airport in the Central African Republic. [...] Wagner’s presence in and financial interests in Africa are well documented, but the violence in Sudan appears to have given the group a fresh opportunity.

Wagner chief Yeveny Prigozhin did not directly address CNN’s request for comment on Wagner’s support for the RSF and its role in fueling the current atrocities. In a sarcastically worded statement, he said Wagner had trained all the military bodies in Sudan, including the RSF, and blamed American interference for the country’s current turmoil. He claimed there had been “no sexual crimes in Sudan” while Bashir was in power. The State Department also acknowledged Wagner’s involvement in Sudan. “Engagement with the Wagner group simply brings more death, destruction and instability,” the statement said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/16/afric...index.html

Genau genommen spielt Wagner der Politik des Kreml in mehrfacher Hinsicht in die Hände: Die Aktionen dieser PMC stützen einerseits irgendwelche willfährigen und skrupellosen Warlords (und helfen bei der Ausbeutung von lokalen Bodenschätzen, die in Moskaus Kriegskasse gehen), andererseits destabilisieren sie aber auch Staaten oder zumindest Teile von Staaten durch Gewalt und Willkür und sorgen so für zunehmende Flüchtlingsbewegungen. Und diese wiederum, wenn sie bis nach Europa gelangen, sorgen dort für enorme innenpolitische Spannungen und ggf. das Erstarken von rechtspopulistischen Kräften, die wiederum meistens Kreml-freundlich sind. Es ist insofern ein tückischer Kreislauf, den der Kreml hier am köcheln hält und der es ihm ermöglicht, mehrere "Fliegen" mit einer Klatsche zu schlagen.

Die Frage, die sich hierbei also stellt, ist jene, ob man diesen "dreckigen Krieg" in brutaler Konsequenz nicht mitführen sollte?

Schneemann