SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: CNN - Darfur may be on the brink of another genocide. Will the world act this time?
CNN quoted analysts warning about an imminent Rapid Support militia (RSF) genocide in Al-Fashir, with proposed preventative measures.
Sudanese lawyer Mutasim Ali highlighted the RSF’s “systematic dehumanization” against non-Arabs in Darfur, adding that the RSF is a “rebranded” Janjaweed with the same commanders, ethnic tribes and victim groups, albeit with sophisticated technology and weaponry due to “significant [UAE] support”.
Arguing that “major powers have largely invested in a sham peace process for 14 months that is going nowhere,” international human rights lawyer Yonah Diamond called for the international community, led by the African Union, to deploy a civilian protection mechanism in al-Fashir and to explicitly threaten the UAE with consequences should it fail to restrain the RSF and continue to supply it with heavy weaponry. Diamond added that the US and the UK “have leverage to exert pressure on their ally, the UAE, to end the RSF’s genocidal campaign today”.