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The Democratic Republic Of Sudan of Nileia

١٩٧٠, Fibrāyir — February, 1970

SIRA HQ, Khartoum 2nd Neighborhood, 39th Avenue East, Khartoum, Province of Khartoum(Mukata’et Khartoum)

    The Republic Of Sudan • جمهورية السودان

      SIRA ROUNDS UP DISSENTERS AND POLITICAL AGITATORS — ABDEL KHALIQ’S ASSASSINATION PUTS COUNTRY AND GOVERNMENT ON EDGE AHEAD OF ELECTIONS

Amidst the election year of 1970, the Sudanese Republic had finally completed 20 years of sovereignty as an independent state, including a decade as a fully-fledged Republic since 1960. However, it had only been 3 years since the last election in 1967, where the streets of Khartoum had felt rather intense, where the air had felt suffocating, your actions watched, and your ability to trust strangers on the streets dwindled by the day. Those three years had blanketed Khartoum in an era of suspicion and paranoia, all under the watch of the military police occupation now existing within the limits of the capital city. Deployed after the 1967 Khartoum riots, Provincial and local municipal police departments have increased in patrols and numbers, along with help from members of the Sudanese Defense Force stationed in Khartoum.

The deployment of troops to the capital had all occurred under the guidance and recommendations of the SIRA to the Presidential Administration, in response to the horrendous riots that rattled the city back in 1967. The Nimiery Directory of the SIRA benefited greatly from this deployment. Soldiers on the streets under the command of high-ranked military allies meant more power involved in Nimiery’s restoration of peace and order initiatives, should the outcome of the upcoming election prove chaotic. It also provided him with the help he needed to bring and arrest dissenters, and deemed political threats to the capital if necessary. However, it’s becoming increasingly speculated amongst opponents and those critical of Nimeiry and the Lwoki Administration, that the continuous spurs of violence are a symptom of a crumbling corrupt regime attempting to sow the seeds of chaos and instability to promote and justify a hostile authoritarian take over of the Sudanese State.

But those speculations fail to rise amidst Sudan’s rising sectarian ideology, especially amongst Islamists, Arab Nationalists, and Communists, putting the moderate establishment Nimiery is devoted to protecting, under the threat of hostile takeover. It had seemed with the help of some dark foreign powers, the SIRA’s plot to secure the seat of power for Nimiery was rolling straight down Barlaman Avenue, amidst the chaos and frenzy following the assassination of the political leader of the Sudanese Communist Party, Abdel Khaliq, which many now pin the responsibility of his death on the Islamist Faction of the Mahdi Umma Party, that had for long planned to establish a theocratic state under the Mahdi lineage. The MUP, now accused of political treachery with no serious evidence to land any of its members behind bars, had found itself at odds with the coalition’s government vision of a secular democracy in Sudan. The MUP’s position in a future coalition government with any of Sudan’s factions has now entirely been eviscerated by what many label a show of hostility. On the street level, it had seemed that the communists in retaliation to the deaths of their leader, had declared a shadow war against the Mahdi Party, and inadvertently, the government itself, which had long opposed the communists as harbingers of atheism and foreign deviancy to the country. This shadow war had transpired to minor yet serious clashes amongst several groups throughout the country. In Berber Province, rumors had spread that the communists had torched an Islamist institution, angering many of the country’s self-acclaimed religious devotees to Islam, regardless of their political affiliation. This had in turn also further sparked anti-government hostilities, much of which were directed at the southern and Christian President, along with the Islamists now accusing the Liberal Party’s ideology of federalism as actively dividing and undermining the unity of a strong Muslim north.

As peace continued to crumble and the political cohesion of a united nation devolved even further, President Lwoki began questioning his position in the 1970 election, even considering in private discussions with the cabinet, to postpone the elections in the aftermath of the Khaliq’s assassination and the recent Islamist Communist clashes amongst themselves and also against his government. A disaster for the President, however a perfect case scenario for the SIRA’s Director who had attended this cabinet emergency meeting. Nimiery is about to have the opportunity to finally put the government and country in line, and return the country to its much-needed stability and restoration of confidence in their government. A confidence that he had actively undermined, to rattle the foundations on which this facade of the Republic has been built.

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AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN!

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