The specter of a manufactured civil war looms over Chad
By: Mr Faris Mahamat Ibrahim - Spokesperson and representative of the political branch of Wakit Tamma in North AmericaAll the ingredients are present, and no one knows where the first spark will come from.
The ruling power is playing with fire. A handful of men, clinging to their privileges like castaways to a wreck, are working to fabricate a civil war from scratch, practicing favoritism and playing on ethnic and religious divisions. Their objective is clear: to maintain their power at all costs, with disregard for peace, justice, and human life.
Their method: divide, repress, starve, and provoke.
They sow fear to gain obedience.
They ethno-denominationalize politics, stir up tensions, and criminalize all dissent.
And faced with every legitimate demand, they repeat their cynical refrain: "It's us or chaos." »
But this macabre staging is not the work of the regime alone.
A section of the so-called "opposition" political class is playing a double game.
Sometimes with weak criticism, sometimes with complicit silence.
Some sell themselves for a seat, a position, a promise.
They legitimize the system they claim to fight, becoming cogs in the cogs of a criminal power.
They condemn the revolt but applaud the rigged dialogues and the false outstretched hands.
They mock or discredit popular uprisings, but rush to conferences under escort,
and shamelessly accept positions lacking real power, graciously offered by a bloodthirsty regime.
These false opponents are the passive—sometimes active—agents of repression.
They, too, participate in the fabrication of this civil war, by blocking the alternative and blurring the lines.
But the Chadian people are no longer fooled.
They've seen the game.
They know that neither the regime nor its accomplices represent their future.
Young people are no longer blind.
With the advent of the internet and social media, it has become easier to expose the contradictions of these demagogic politicians.
The real fault line doesn't run between North and South, between religions or ethnicities—
It runs between the oppressors and the oppressed, between those who live off the system and those it crushes.
And the day anger explodes, it won't be a civil war where civilians kill each other for their masters, as they hope.
It will be a popular uprising.
A revolution of dignity.
A war of liberation against a system rotten to the core,
against all those who built it, protected it, or tolerated it. To those who believe they can manipulate history from the shadows: know this, your time is running out.
The people are rising.
The fear of changing sides.
And soon, justice will speak—in the streets, in hearts, in deeds.
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