Jeffrey Feltman:
Well, of course, I have been thinking about this ever since Monday.
I landed in Doha, flying from Khartoum, turned on my phone and saw what was happening in Khartoum. And so I have been replaying the conversations I had with General Burhan. I saw him twice, two-and-a-half-hours on Saturday, an hour or so on Sunday. On Sunday, it was one-on-one.
And he was talking to me about his concerns with the transition, what he saw as stumbling blocks in the transition, problems in the transition, disarray on the civilian side, the lack of some institutions.
But when I look back now, I realize that concern was not a concern in good faith, because, if he was really concerned about the civilians, and the civilian — and the civilian part of the transition, he wouldn’t have gone out to take over, to depose the civilian — all the civilian institutions, to try to hand-select the people who he would want to work with.
I will say that he and General Hemeti, his sidekick in this…
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