Sudan Events – Abdul Basit Idris
Here is Genina, transformed into a military barracks and a prominent place for terrorism, frequented by warlords and foreign mercenaries of all colors and races. Until recently, Genina was not like this. It was a city full of life, resisting violent tendencies and the sound of bullets with more hope and adherence to the land. Hemeti’s militia committed bloody massacres, killed 15,000 people, and displaced hundreds of thousands of defenseless civilians.
Ethnic cleansing:
A year after the events, its wounds still remain, and its victims are seeking justice to avenge their deaths and displacement in the largest genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign witnessed in modern history.
Victims of Democracy:
The global conscience was shaken by the scale of the genocide in its final chapter. Since the start of Hemeti’s militia war on the Sudanese state, the militia killed 70 people in one day and plundered and terrorized the city.
In May of the same year, the militia invaded the city and demolished what remained of the security wall, and killed in cold blood 500 men, women and children, burned the markets and looted shops and banks. These events were not the result of the treachery of Geneina and its villages or the outcome of the geography that made West Darfur a prepared scene for the passage of mercenary crowds and a main crossing for the flow of weapons and supplies, but they were nevertheless a practical implementation of the annihilation of the indigenous population and the uprooting of the survivors from their roots and land, through a well-thought-out plan based on resettling the Bedoon groups in Sudan…the plan that is currently being implemented in Khartoum and Gezira.Hemeti’s militia has continued to commit these crimes under the slogan of establishing democracy at times and fighting the post-independence state.
Scandalous numbers:
Statistics and reports of international agencies and institutions expose what the militia has been denying. In this regard, the report of the International Experts Committee formed by the UN Security Council stated that Darfur is now witnessing the worst human rights violations in a more serious, bloody and complicated manner than what happened in 2005.
The report revealed the killing of 15,000 people.
Violation of the arms embargo:
In a statement to Radio and Television Dabanga, human rights defender Abdul-Baqi Jibril, head of the Darfur Center for Aid and Documentation, stressed the importance of the report of the Security Council’s Experts Committee on the situation in Sudan, stressing that the report concluded that there had been a violation of the arms embargo imposed on Darfur during the ongoing war. He described the report as comprehensive and spoke about the ongoing conflict in a broad manner and the scope of violence and events taking place in Darfur in general.
For another part , a report issued by Human Rights Watch shed light on the attacks launched by the Rapid Support Forces RSF and allied militias on civilians in West Darfur State, which it described as a systematic campaign to remove the Masalit population from the state capital, El Geneina. The massacres of Hemeti’s militia forced more than 300,000 people to flee to the Adre camp in Chad.
