In Sudan, the gunmen are our own and, yes, they are the problem. But the real gunmen are the suppliers of these weapons—the manufacturers of these evil machines—who supply them in exchange for our natural resources, rendering our countries uninhabitable. Suppose we follow what people who’ve never known war in the West say: “Don’t run away; defend your country; take up arms and fight.” Who do we fight? The poor gunman who has been brainwashed? The poor gunman who is one of our own? The poor gunman who speaks our tongue, identifies as Sudanese, and claims he would do anything to make the country livable? “Fight imperialism,” they say; “fight capitalism; fight corruption; fight the subjugating West whose hands arrive via Egypt, Turkey, the UAE, CAR, Libya, Kenya,” etc. This genocide is not only the wrongdoing of the executioner in the field.