According to a United Nations report published by Reuters, between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in last year’s ethnic cleansing in the Sudanese city of El Geneina.
The city is located in Sudan’s West Darfur region, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allied Arab militias have been blamed for the crime. This happened due to the war between the RSF and the Sudanese army that started in mid-April last year.
In November, a Sudanese army general accused the United Arab Emirates of supporting the RSF’s war effort. The UN report concluded that these accusations are credible. As stated in the report, the UAE provided military assistance several times a week through Amdjarass, a city in the north of Chad.
However, the UAE assures that according to Amdjarass, they had 122 airplane flights that delivered humanitarian aid to Sudanese who fled the war. According to the UN, half a million people have fled from Sudan to eastern Chad.
In the aforementioned report, it was pointed out that “intense violence” took place in El Geneina and that the victim of the violence of the RSF and its allies was the Masalit African tribe.
“The attacks were planned, coordinated, and executed by RSF and their allied Arab militias,” the sanctions monitors wrote in their annual report to the 15-member Security Council.
It has been assessed that these are crimes that may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The war has left nearly half of Sudan’s 49 million people needing aid, while more than 7.5 million people have fled their homes – making Sudan the biggest displacement crisis globally – and hunger is rising.
The RSF previously denied the accusations and stated that soldiers who commit crimes will be prosecuted, Reuters reports.
