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The Sudanese Embassy in Zimbabwe has denounced the ongoing conflict in Sudan, making an unequivocal plea to the international community to intervene and halt what it called “terror and genocide”.
This comes as tens of thousands of people have been reportedly killed and more than 12 million people displaced in attacks by the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The group has been fighting the Sudanese Army for control of the country since 2023.
The current civil unrest in Sudan is a direct consequence of the failed coup d’état by the RSF to seize power on April 15, 2023.
Since then, the RSF have been locked in a civil war with the Sudanese army, a conflict that has resulted in scores of civilian deaths and widespread reports of sexual violence, especially against women and girls.
In a statement, the embassy bemoaned the continued killing of civilians and called on other countries to stop providing weapons to these terrorists.
“The Sudanese army is able and capable to rout the terrorist militia and protect the soil and people of the Sudan; however, the support and supply of arms to the terrorist militia by hostile foreign powers prolong the ongoing war in the Sudan led to the catastrophic situation in the Sudan,” reads the statement.
“It is realisable and noticeable that people escape from areas occupied by the terrorist militia to army-controlled areas.
“Some of the terrorist militia combatants fight aimlessly with mass killing of people on identity, as happened in many parts of Sudan such as in Algeneina, Wad-Elnoura, Al-hilalia, Tamboul, Bara, etc and a few weeks ago in El-Fasher.”
Citing the militia’s celebration of videos of gruesome murders, the embassy demanded that the terrorist militia be brought to justice and prosecuted.
The current charges are based on an apparent evidence of atrocities provided by the terrorist militia fighters themselves, since they have shared gruesome videos reportedly showing summary executions, celebrating over dead bodies, taunting and abusing people.
“Over 460 patients and co-patients were mowed down in the Saudi Hospital in El-Fasher. Escaped people from El-Fasher reported more than 2 000 people killed in a day.
“Satellite images prove and confirm the said reports. Even the terrorist militia prevents civilians from fleeing El-Fasher.
“More than 36 000 people have fled, most on foot to Tawila in large numbers and the influx of displaced people continues.”
The mission also warned that failure to act now against the militia and its allies risks the spread of this violence into other African nations.
The embassy also criticised international and regional organisations for equating the “constitutional army and terrorist militia”, arguing that treating the conflict as one between “two parties” only serves to embolden the militia to “continue its crimes.”
“The government of The Sudan refers all these heinous crimes to the onus and responsibility of the international community, hence there was no serious move from UN to implement its resolution instead of that regards the terrorist militia as an equal part of the constitutional army in spite of persistent and consistent refusal of the Sudan to equate the terrorist militia on equal foot of the army.
“The embassy conveys the volition and will of the government of the Sudan to democratic path and prevail of peace and its attitude “no negotiation with terrorist militia unless it surrenders and disarms”, to fulfill what the government of the Sudan submitted in March, the road map plan to UNSC calls for ceasefire, the withdrawal of terrorist militia from occupied areas and lifting of the siege of El-Fasher.”
