The sound of sudden screaming marred with the rapid crackle of bullets did not surprise Suhaib Tariq, a lawyer and long-time resident of Sinjah, the capital of Sennar State, Sudan. The fall of al-Jazirah State, 151 kilometres to the north, in December of last year,has left the more than one million residents of Sennar in a state of heightened tension. Tariq had already prepared for the worst. “Sennar was next. We all knew,” he told The New Arab. “I only wish this day hadn’t come so soon.” Rapid Support Forces (RSF)swept through Sennar on June 29 in what was described by analysts as a “blitzkri…