Sudan Events – Follow-ups
A statement issued by the Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday once again drew the attention of the international community to the serious violations of international humanitarian law and terrorist practices as carried out by the Janjaweed militia in Gezira State.
The statement revealed that the militia is imposing an unjustified siege on a number of villages and towns in Gezira State with the aim of forcing young people to conscript into its ranks or invading those villages and exposing their residents to various types of violations and humiliation, plundering their property and killing anyone who resists.
The Ministry said targeting villages and rural areas devoid of any military manifestations, committing atrocities against their people, particularly women and girls, and compulsory conscription of youth and children, is the method of terrorist groups that the region has known, such as Boko Haram, the Ugandan Lord’s Army and ISIS, where the militia is still detaining dozens of girls in form similar to slavery, and thousands of civilians are detained in camps that lack the basic necessities of life.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs drew attention to the testimonies of victims conveyed by the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Prevention of Genocide in recent days, in which she said that killings based on ethnicity included all males from infant to old-age of the targeted tribes, with the captivity of women and girls, mutilation of corpses, and attacks on camps of displaced people fleeing the scourge of war in and around the city of El Geneina.
The statement added that at the same time, the militia continues the systematic destruction of the infrastructure of the Sudanese state and economy after destroying what remained of the Qari oil refinery, most recently, the militia vandalized the Al-Genaid and West Sinnar sugar factories, looted all cars, transportable machinery, fertilizers, and destroyed the cultivated areas, in extension of its looting of all drilling and harvesting machinery in the Gezira Scheme, with the aim of completely disrupting production operations in the project and in the whole state.
The Ministry called on the international community, given all these practices, to take a unified stance against the militia, obligating it to an unconditional ceasefire and all military operations, and the eviction of cities, villages, and civilian real estate, with the need for the militia not to be rewarded for its terrorist crimes and terrible violations of international humanitarian law, and to adhere to the principle of preventing impunity.
