Accusations Against the Rapid Support Forces Over the Sit-in Massacre
Amjad Farid Al-Tayeb
Groups of politicians who are today exploiting the crime of the sit-in dispersal know full well that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia was responsible for mobilizing its members, assembling them in Green Square, arming them, and then directing them to attack the sit-in site in order to disperse it with the brutality that was witnessed. This occurred in parallel with the clearance operation of the “Colombia” area, which had been pre-planned and involved all regular forces. They are also fully aware that investigations conducted—some of which were published, including a well-documented independent inquiry by the Darfur Bar Association at the time—conclusively substantiated these accusations. Indeed, the presence of Abdel Rahim Dagalo and his direct supervision of the forces that carried out the dispersal has been documented on video.
Attempts were made to delay and avoid publishing these facts, with the aim of preventing a military confrontation and the outbreak of war with the militia. This, however, merely postponed what was inevitable. One may reasonably disagree with these assessments—from the decision to clear Colombia to the attempts to avoid war by withholding publication. Yet the current opportunism, emerging after war has already erupted, through efforts to deflect attention from the RSF’s crime and to exploit the bloodshed of the sit-in dispersal in order to incriminate the Sudanese Armed Forces, is deeply reprehensible. It mirrors the conduct of the same actors today as they defend the militia and its Emirati patron. For them, Sudanese blood is nothing more than a bargaining chip.
The Janjaweed militia (RSF) committed the sit-in dispersal massacre, and then went on to perpetrate similar atrocities in El Geneina, followed by Khartoum and Al-Jazira—from Al-Hilaliya to Wad Al-Noura—and later shed the same Sudanese blood in El Fasher. To this day, it continues to engage in killing, displacement, and abuse wherever its forces advance. Meanwhile, there are ongoing efforts to whitewash these crimes through the same pattern of disinformation that was deployed in El Fasher and is now being repeated on the anniversary of the sit-in dispersal, in an attempt to redirect blame onto others.
Enough of exploiting people’s suffering. Enough of trading in Sudanese blood. Your patrons in Abu Dhabi will not protect you, nor will they shield you from the angry of the Sudanese people over this bloody alignment.
May God have mercy on the martyrs of the sit-in dispersal, and on all of Sudan’s martyrs. Shame and disgrace upon the politicians who have mortgaged their integrity and conscience to the Abu Dhabi regime and who strive to absolve its militias.
