In Sudan’s Darfur, EU Warns Of ‘Anoter Genocide’

DARFUR NOW by Ted Braun, examines the genocide in Sudan's Darfur.

DARFUR — The European Union condemned the mass killings of Darfur's Masalit people by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary and its affiliated militia, terming the violence as "an ethnic cleansing". The Masalit are an ethnic group who reside mainly in Chad and Darfur in Sudan.

Earlier this month, the RSF, which has been fighting the military-led government, besieged a refugee camp in West Darfur and killed more than 1,300 people. This is said to be the largest mass killing in the country since April. 

"The international community cannot turn a blind eye on what is happening in Darfur and allow another genocide to happen in this region," EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said. In July, the UN Human Rights Office obtained credible information that the bodies of Masalit Sudanese and others, allegedly killed by RSF and their allies, were buried in a mass grave outside West Darfur's capital.

The RSF and allied Arab militias conducted systemic attacks on the Masalit people between April and June 2023. Since June, peace talks have been attempted without much results. Talks resumed in Jeddah last month with officials hoping for ceasefires, humanitarian access and conditions for a broader peace process. 

In 2003, former President and war criminal Omar Al-Bashir armed Arab tribal militias and tasked them with crushing a mostly non-Arab rebellion which was fighting against Darfur’s economic and political marginalisation. Over the next five years, about 300,000 people died in combat as well as from famine and disease brought on by the conflict. About 4.3 million have been displaced within Sudan and more than 1.2 million have fled the country.

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