A newly released report from an international human rights organisation has concluded that a genocide is taking place against non-Arab groups in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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The paramilitary force has denied that it is being supplied by the UAE and rejected accusations that it is waging an ethnically motivated campaign of violence in Darfur.
In Darfur, the vast western region that serves as the RSF’s powerbase, the paramilitary group has been able to act almost completely without hindrance.
Women across Darfur - some as young as 12 - have been the victims of sexual assault perpetrated by men wearing RSF uniforms.
The Raoul Wallenberg Centre argues that there is clear evidence to conclude that the RSF is continuing the ethnically motivated genocide perpetrated by the Janjaweed militias against non-Arab groups in Darfur.
Today, one can only feel shocked – if not betrayed – by the ongoing level of indifference and impunity in the face of another genocide that is being effectively silenced and sanitised. »
