Sudan Holds UAE Responsible for Continued Janjaweed Massacres

The Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has held the international community responsible for the ongoing massacres committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.

On Thursday, the RSF militia launched an attack on the town of Kalogi in South Kordofan state using a drone, targeting a children’s kindergarten at least twice before striking the hospital where the victims had been taken.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said it “holds the sponsors of the RSF – referring to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)– as well as the UN Security Council and international actors responsible for the continuation of these massacres.”

The statement noted that the Security Council and relevant international parties have failed even to monitor the implementation of the resolution lifting the siege on El-Fashir and stopping attacks on the city, ignoring repeated warnings of an imminent genocide there. It added that, following the ongoing genocide, these actors limited themselves to verbal condemnations that were never translated into measures capable of limiting the terrorist militia’s ability to commit such atrocities.

In June 2023, the Security Council passed a resolution calling for the lifting of the RSF siege on El-Fashir and the removal of fighters from the city and its surroundings. However, the militia continued the siege and attacks until taking control of the city on October 26. The militia continues to block access to El-Fashir, likely aiming to conceal evidence of the mass killings it has carried out.

The Ministry described the RSF militia attack on Kalogi as an extension of the ongoing genocide targeting specific communities. It noted that the militia’s assault aimed to maximize civilian casualties, initially bombing a kindergarten with a drone, killing a significant number of students.

“When citizens rushed to rescue the injured children, the militia struck the kindergarten again, killing more, including children who had not been injured in the first attack,” the statement said.

It added that the militia pursued victims and paramedics at the rural hospital where the injured were taken, raising the death toll to 79 and injuring 38. The Ministry stressed that targeting children and the wounded in such a horrific manner is unprecedented worldwide and provides new evidence that the RSF militia interprets international indifference to its ongoing atrocities as tacit encouragement and approval of these crimes.