Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has placed responsibility for ongoing massacres in the country on “militia sponsors, the UN Security Council and international actors.”
In a statement issued Friday, the ministry said that the Security Council and concerned international parties failed even to monitor the implementation of the Council’s decision to lift the siege on El Fasher and halt attacks on the city, ignoring repeated warnings of an imminent genocide. According to the ministry, after the genocide began— and continues today—responses have been limited to “verbal condemnations” that have not translated into actions to curb the capabilities of what it described as a terrorist militia.
The statement added that, as part of an ongoing campaign of genocide carried out by the Janjaweed militia against specific Sudanese communities, the group committed a new massacre on Thursday in the town of Kallogi in South Kordofan, killing 79 civilians—including 43 children and six women.
It noted that the massacre was executed in a manner that indicates intent to inflict the highest possible number of civilian casualties. The militia initially struck a kindergarten with drone-launched rockets, killing many children. When residents rushed to rescue the injured, the militia bombed the facility again, killing additional victims, including children who had survived the first attack. The statement added that the militia pursued victims and paramedics at the rural hospital where the injured had been taken, raising the death toll to 79 with 38 others wounded.
The ministry described the targeting of children and the wounded in this manner as an unprecedented act of terrorism “unmatched even by the most brutal extremist groups,” arguing that it demonstrates how the militia interprets international inaction as tacit approval.
It concluded by asserting that the events show there is “no possibility of coexistence with this extremist militia that lacks the most basic sense of humanity and respect for any custom or law.”
