War in Sudan: Both Sides Accused of Crimes Against Humanity as Foreign Weapons Flood the Country



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In Sudan, a recent United Nations fact-finding mission documented “harrowing” human rights violations committed by both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, including indiscriminate attacks on civilians, schools, hospitals, water and power supplies. Civilians have also been subjected to torture, arbitrary detention and gruesome sexual violence. Over 20,000 people have been killed and 13 million displaced over the past 16 months. The war has also destroyed the country’s healthcare system and caused an outbreak of diseases like cholera, malaria and dengue. Sky News correspondent Yousra Elbagir, whose reporting helped uncover details of a June 2023 massacre of civilians by the RSF in North Darfur, says the world is showing “complete apathy and neglect” over the violence in Sudan today. We also speak with Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, who says advanced weapons made in countries including Russia, China and Iran are ending up in Sudan and are “very likely to be used to commit human rights violations and war crimes.”

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26 thoughts on “War in Sudan: Both Sides Accused of Crimes Against Humanity as Foreign Weapons Flood the Country”

  1. USA push decades against specially Russia, China, now just from nowhere appear even Serbia and Saudi Arabia… Sure they are responsible for the conflict, sure they are delivering weapons…
    Even, funny, past decades no one really realize this…, there are no other countries, at least media not cover in real, that this happening…
    But now, now they are 100% sure… There is sure not connection with loosing proxy war in Ukraine, nothing to do with tensioning and provocation China, Serbia? sure, always was a ally with Russia, and USA already do their job in Serbia, killing civilians… Saudi, hmmm… old friend of USA, but blackmail them sure have nothing to do with fact, that Saudi turning back to USA, going to BRICKS, go away from petroDollar and US hegemony…
    Yes, last "proofs" even show, that 9/11 was Saudi game… Funny, that no one ask: OK, when you have those bullet-proof proofs, from the beginning, why USA kill 1.400.000 civilians in Irak??? So, that was lays, all just lays cost 1.400.000 lives…
    This for sure is the whole truth, how Russia, China, Serbia and Saudi Arabia push the weapons to the Sudan… Yes "sure"… And, no one also ask, OK, media, US government, EU… already 2 years talking, how Russia is exhausted, have no weapons, no soldiers, no technology… but there is no issue, in the same time accuse them, how they push weapons to foreign countries…

    WOKE UP, please, WOKE UP!!!!

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  2. I know for sure that until a year ago, the USA supplied ammunition to one side in Sudan and the Israelis to the other. That's 2 out of 3 sides. Why didn't you mention that in the report? NATO is so lying and hypocritical that an honest man vomits as soon as he hears and sees your reports.

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  3. "This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran." Clark regards the 2003 invasion of Iraq as "a huge mistake"."

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  4. It is funny that the Western media is still promoting that the violation taking place in Sudan is a conflict between two equal parties, and it is known that there is a difference between the national army and the faction that rebelled against the state with the help of the Arab Emirates and some state that has a strong desire to continue the conflict in Sudan. Everyone must know what is happening, that there are militias called the Janjaweed that seek the help of Arab mercenaries from the African diaspora in order to seize power, committing violations, killing, raping, and forcibly displacing the Sudanese people, looting their property, and using their homes as military barracks.

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  5. Sudán, no tiene el mismo trato mediático. Y la situación lo merece. Las personas que están padeciendo esta situación, merecen que esta situación se explique y se de a conocer.
    De hecho estaría bien recordar a diario todos los conflictos que están abiertos y explicarlos.
    Porque serviría a todos para ver como esta el mundo.

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  6. What is going in Sudan is not a civil war. It is a militia led by a war lord who is ambitious to have power and wealth by corruption force. RSF or rapid support force which also called Janjaweed committed crimes of ethnic cleansing , rape, torture, looting and the list goes on. We should call things by their names and stand and pretend to be neutral or at the same distance from both parties . RSF Should and must be stopped for the stability of Sudan and whole region.

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