Protests dislodged Omar al-Bashir in Sudan, but will the new man in charge be much different?
By Max Bearak Max Bearak Africa bureau chief based in Nairobi Email Bio Follow April 12 at 6:07 AM NAIROBI — When Awad Ibn Auf, Sudan’s vice president and defense minister, took to state radio on Thursday to announce he was taking over the country, he did so with none of the charisma of a politician and none of the passion that had fueled four months of street protests that ended President Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year reign.
To many Sudanese, his words contained a contradiction: Ibn Auf, more than almost anyone, was at the center of Bashir’s regime. Uprooting it would have taken Ibn Auf out of the picture. There, Ibn Auf, who was by then chief of military intelligence and security, liaised with the Janjaweed — a collection of ethnic Arab militias that brutally raped, pillaged and killed their way through the region, burning much of it to the ground and forcing millions of people to flee.
“Because he could still face prosecution for war crimes, he would not have been taken off the [sanctions] list, so that he could not use assets or financial resources to aid in avoiding said prosecution,” said Neil Bhatiya, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security.
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