Meanwhile: #Sudan
Videos showed paramilitaries opening fire on the village in what had been Sudan’s breadbasket region, causing the latest mass civilian casualties in a brutal yearlong war.
At least 35 children were killed in the attack on Wad Al-Noura - Sudan's army said on Thursday it would deliver a "harsh response" to an attack a day earlier on a village by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces - In just over a year, estimates putting the death toll as high as 150,000
Protests ¯\(°_o)/¯ who cares
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/world/africa/sudan-wad-al-noura-assault-jazeera-province.html
war in Sudan has become one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crises in the world
the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war also kinda why it's not highlighted by outrage farmers
The UAE has denied this support - Sudan is key to the UAE’s strategy in Africa and the Middle East, aimed at achieving political and economic hegemony while curbing democratic aspirations. Since 2015, it has sourced fighters from both factions to join its conflict in Yemen.
A UN report in January found the accusations of UAE military support to RSF credible
Meanwhile, famine, diseases and fighting are closing in on civilians. Furthermore, the so-called international community has done little to stop it - The pattern of targeting civilians, torching villages, and committing mass murders and sexual violence has been witnessed in all the areas that came under RSF control.
Human Rights Watch suggested RSF has committed genocide, crimes against humanity, widespread war crimes and ethnic cleansing. SAF has committed its share of war crimes, bombing civilians indiscriminately, and arresting, torturing and killing civilians too. The US officially determined that both the SAF and RSF have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/09/sudan-ethnic-cleansing-west-darfur
Not a peep from the bleeding heart "left" folk #JusSayin
the SAF and RSF have consistently failed to honour the commitments set out in the May 2023 declaration to ensure civilians are protected and international humanitarian law is respected.
https://www.state.gov/jeddah-declaration-of-commitment-to-protect-the-civilians-of-sudan/
the international community must confront the UAE’s detrimental role in the conflict, which it has carried out with impunity, leveraging its alliances with both the west and Russia.