Al-Burhan: The international community must classify the Rapid Support Group as a terrorist group
New York – Sudan Event
The head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, called on the international community to classify the rebel Rapid Support groups and their allied militias as terrorist groups. Noting that they committed all the crimes that put their in this category.
In his address today to the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, Al-Burhan called for the need to deal decisively with those who support these groups, indicating that killing, arson, rape, forced displacement, looting, theft, torture, transporting weapons and drugs, bringing in mercenaries, and recruiting children are crimes that require accountability and punishment, stressing that the existing legitimate state institutions are a government, armed forces, and other authorities will not allow the state’s sovereignty to be violated or the dignity of its people to be undermined, whatever the cost.
The head of the Sovereignty Council said that since the fifteenth of last April, the Sudanese people have faced a devastating war waged by the rebel Rapid Support Forces, allied with some tribal militias and others, regional and international. He pointed out that these forces brought in mercenaries from various parts of the world to commit the most heinous crimes against the Sudanese, as they committed murder, looting, theft, rape, and seized citizens’ homes and property, in addition to destroy civilian objects, including service facilities, hospitals, state headquarters, and government offices, as they also tried to obliterate the history and identity of the Sudanese people by attacking museums and antiquities, land records, civil registry, court and airport records, as well as plundering banks, public and private companies, and releasing prisoners and detainees, including those wanted by international justice and terrorists.
He Stressed that the above-mentioned crimes amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes, pointing to the ethnic cleansing carried out by this rebel group, the displacement of people from their areas, sexual violence, killing based on race, torture, and everything that amounts to being described as war crimes in Darfur and Khartoum, Al-Burhan added that what happened in West Darfur in El Geneina represents the best evidence of the grave violations. These forces are against civilians in Sudan.
The Head of the Sovereignty Council explained that although these forces committed all these violations, the Government of Sudan has tried every means to stop this war and it responded to every initiative presented by brothers and friends, pointing to the initiative launched by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America in Jeddah, which achieved good progress had it not been for the stubbornness of the rebels. In addition to the IGAD initiative and the neighboring countries initiative that was held in Egypt. Al-Burhan renewed his assurances for peace “We are still extending our hands for peace and to stop this war and alleviate the suffering of our people.” He added.
The Head of the Sovereignty Council referred to the initiative of the brothers in Turkey, South Sudan and Uganda in order to find solutions to the crisis, but all of this collided with the rebels’ rejection of peaceful solutions and their insistence on destroying the state and exterminating and displacing its people.
