Foreign Ministry: Militia Seeks to Invoke International Intervention

Port Sudan – Sudanhorizon

The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia is attempting to prompt international intervention under the pretext of civilian protection by systematically escalating massacres and atrocities against civilians. The ministry asserts that it is a tactic to avoid military defeat and retain occupied areas, including hundreds of thousands of homes in the capital and other cities, as well as continuing to hold thousands of civilians as hostages in secret detention centres, a method characteristic of terrorist groups.
In a statement released Thursday, the ministry reported that, over the past two days, the Janjaweed militia committed a new massacre in the city of Hilaliya in Al Jazirah State, claiming 120 lives so far. Civilians, including men, women, and children, held hostage by the militia in various parts of the city have perished either from gunshots or due to food poisoning and lack of medical care.
The ministry highlighted that this atrocity follows ongoing international condemnation of massacres carried out by the militia in the past two weeks in Sareha village, 58 other villages, and six cities in eastern Al Jazirah State, resulting in hundreds of civilian deaths. The militia’s brutal retaliatory campaigns against unarmed civilians are reportedly in response to recent defections by several of its leaders and members.
The statement noted that this latest massacre coincides with a similar, vengeful assault against unarmed villagers in northern Darfur, where the militia, having failed in multiple attacks on the city of El Fasher, burned more than 40 villages in the state.
The Foreign Ministry attributed these new massacres to the militia’s disregard for verbal condemnations or international resolutions lacking firm enforcement measures, as demonstrated by the RSF’s response to UN Security Council Resolution 2736, issued six months ago, which called for an end to attacks on civilians and IDP camps in El Fasher. Instead, the militia escalated its assaults in defiance of the resolution.
The statement urged that, rather than yielding to this terrorist blackmail by considering international intervention, the global community should designate the militia as a terrorist organization, pursue its leaders and members as international fugitives, and consider anyone who aids, supports, or hosts the militia’s leaders or spokespeople as an enabler of terrorism and an accomplice to the militia’s crimes.