UN Security Council to Hold Special Session on Sudan, Monday
New York – Sudanhorizon – Meriam
The United Nations’ Security Council is scheduled to convene a special session on the Sudan on Monday, in light of the recent developments, massacres and serious violations that are currently perpetrated against civilians, particularly in Al Gazira state, at the hands of the rebel by the Rapid Support Militias.
A senior diplomatic source told the Sudanhorizon news website, that Sudan’s Permanent Mission in New York will table a detailed report before the UN Security Council highlighting the scopes of these violations and massacres committed by the Rapid Support Militia against civilian villagers in the various Sudanese states which are witnessing active armed clashes, particularly Gazira state, central Sudan.
The President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council, the collective presidency, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has underlined in his account in x platform that the crimes of committed by Rapid Support Militia will not go unpunished.
He underlined that the terrorist militia of the Daglo Clan persists in shedding the blood of innocent civilians in the country; the more Sudanese people are determined to fight back.
He added “violating international humanitarian law and committing crimes against humanity will not go unpunished, and make it impossible to show tolerance towards these terrorist militias.”
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has meanwhile drawn the attention of the regional and international communities, in a statement it issued on Friday, that villages and towns in eastern Gazira state, central Sudan, and in the Butana region, central eastern Sudan, are subjected to retribution campaigns by the Janjaweed militias, following defection of one of their leaders, that they continue and targeting people on ethnic and regional basis, matter amounting to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The Ministry has indicated that it is estimated that hundreds of civilians were killed or injured in these criminal campaigns against the civilian citizens, while thousands have been displaced from their home villages.
The Ministry called on the international community to condemn these ethnic cleaning campaigns immediately and strongly, and to take the necessary measures to hold accountable the perpetrators, leaders and sponsors of the terrorist militias, and to stop the flow of arms and influx of mercenaries.
The Ministry considered that “the silence and indifference shown by the international community towards these crimes encourage the militia and its regional sponsors to continue carrying out massacres and commit ting genocide, without any fear of punishment.
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