Sudan has applied to bring a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of aiding the paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), amidst the ongoing foreign-backed proxy conflict that had k*lled as many as 150,000 people as of May 2024, according to US envoy Tom Perriello.
In the filing that cited the UAE’s military, financial and political backing of the RSF, the Sudanese government said the UAE is ‘complicit in the g*nocide’ of the non-Arab Masalit community in West Darfur. Sudan urged the court to implement provisional measures to safeguard Masalit people’s rights.
The UAE dismissed the allegations, labelling the case a ‘cynical publicity stunt.’ However, reports from UN experts have indicated that the claims are credible.
The RSF—formerly known as the Janjaweed—has been synonymous with heinous human-rights abuses and war crimes, including g*nocide. The Janjaweed were usually members of nomadic Arab tribes who’d long been at odds with Darfur’s darker-skinned, non-Arab African farmers. Now, the RSF’s war against the Sudanese military has created what the UN calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 12.5 million internally and externally displaced and half the country facing acute food insecurity.
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