Violence itself becomes the messageOne of the central principles of just war theory is discrimination: combatants may be targeted; civilians must not. This moral and military failure signifies a war that treats human beings as interchangeable obstacles rather than as persons with intrinsic dignity. The collapse of distinction between means and endsThis is why the Sudanese civil war resists comforting narratives of tragedy or misunderstanding. Several countries that supply warring parties with killing machines are complicit in the calamitous war in Sudan. The Sudanese civil war is a warning written in blood.