Why don't they arm farmers? Plus do they plan on holding onto the territories they captured already? If yes did they send reinforcements or something?
of course, Ethiopia been asking Sudan to withdraw for weeks but the government made it clear that there won’t be “any” type of withdrawal. Besides, Sudan until this point has not shown any type of military muscle all those camps were literally cleared of Ethiopian presence by a bunch of border patrol forces.
Sudan has been for years in the process of disarming civilians. This is to ensure that the conflicts that happened in the past in Darfur and southern Sudan do not happen again. That is why when these armed Ethiopian militias in “military” uniform attack, the unarmed Sudanese farmers don’t have weapons to retaliate. Unlike western Sudan where the janjaweed been active with heavy weaponry, eastern Sudan has been very peaceful and many would have never seen a gun.
if it were the Janjaweed in eastern Sudan, the Amhara militias wouldn’t have attacked