July 28—The Schiller Institute has received from Sudan’s foreign ministry a short statement by Foreign Minister Hussein Awad Ali, appealing for international help in defeating the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a super-militia that is destroying Sudan in its attempt to defeat the Army and take over the country. The ministry is circulating the statement widely. It was published July 17 in the Sudan Tribune.
The statement, titled, “The Janjaweed Rebranded: Why International Community’s Calls to RSF Fall on Deaf Ears?” states in part:
“Fifteen months of the RSF militia’s war against the Sudanese people, and the associated, unprecedented atrocities, have so far met inadequate response from the international community.
“True, the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2736, [of] 13 June 2024, which demands the RSF end its siege of El-Fasher [the capital of North Darfur] is significant. However, it falls short of unequivocally condemning the Militia for its brutal crimes.
“Between April and December 2023, the RSF and its affiliated militias were responsible for the deaths of 10,000 to 15,000 civilians in West Darfur, according to a Panel of Independent Experts assigned by the [UN] Security Council. The U.S. State Department determined in December 2023 that the RSF committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of ethnic cleansing reminiscent of genocide. A bipartisan draft resolution in the U.S. Congress also recognized these actions as genocide….
“Despite global outrage over these crimes, in many aspects the international community’s response appears slow, insufficient and amounts to apathy.”
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) estimates that 10 million people have been forcibly displaced since the war began in April 2023, including two million who have fled to neighboring countries including Egypt, Ethiopia, the Central African Republic, and Chad. Further, the UN hunger monitoring system says Sudan is facing the worst food crisis in its history. More than 755,000 people are in a state of “Catastrophe,” the most severe category of extreme hunger.
EIR notes that the RSF in Sudan is a prime example of a militia being encouraged or built up by Global NATO and its associates to destabilize, destroy, and depopulate African nations. Such militias are also operating in Nigeria, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, and elsewhere.
