Foreign Ministry: The militia prevents aid trucks from reaching El Fasher
Sudan Events – Follow-ups
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that the Rapid Support RSF Militia detained many humanitarian aid trucks from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that were on their way to El Fasher to contribute to containing the food and health crisis in the camps for the displaced.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement, on Friday, that the militia began implementing its declared threats to prevent the arrival of humanitarian aid convoys via the Al-Dabbah – Mellit – El Fasher route, and mobilized numbers of its mercenaries near Mellit to block the highway to humanitarian aid convoys and seize that aid.
She added, “Coinciding with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, the militia escalated its attacks on safe villages in the states of Gezira,North and South Kordofan, and in the state of Gezira alone,” and indicated that it attacked 28 villages during the past two weeks, killed 43 civilians, and looted the property of the citizens of these villages and their food crops.
It turned large numbers of them into displaced persons.
The Foreign Ministry affirmed that these continuing crimes assure that the militia has turned into criminal groups and gangs for armed robbery, rape, and terrorism, and said, “This fact will not hide the false and miserable propaganda efforts of the militia’s sponsors, such as talking about a civil administration in Gezira state particularly since its members whom I presented as a civil administration adopted Her propaganda speech described the war launched on April 15 last year as a revolution.
It added, “This is accompanied by international media revealing the reality of the tragedy that the island’s villages and towns are experiencing, under the weight of the terrorist militia, such as the investigative report by the American CNN channel, which documented the terrorist militia’s practices against villagers, including acts of forced labor and forced recruitment of children, in an embodiment of what civil administration means.” For the militia.”
The Foreign Ministry expressed its welcome of the international community’s growing awareness of the reality of this militia and its targeting of civilians, particularly women and children, and the successive condemnations of it, in addition to the acknowledgment that it cannot achieve any victory over the armed forces, the national army that is one hundred years old, as stated by the US administration envoy Tom Berlio. .
It affirmed that the shortest way to put an end to the suffering of the Sudanese people, end the humanitarian crisis, and stop the war is to oblige the militia’s sponsors to stop supplying it with weapons, money, and mercenaries, while strictly implementing the decisions of Jeddah, particularly with regard to the evacuation of civilian objects, citizens’ homes, and cities and villages that the militia attacked after signing the Declaration of Humanitarian Principles. .
