{"id":19789,"date":"2024-04-25T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=19789"},"modified":"2024-04-26T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:41:18","slug":"will-washington-sanction-sudans-rsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/will-washington-sanction-sudans-rsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Washington Sanction Sudan\u2019s RSF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By:Gbadamos-Nosmot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are calling for direct measures against the group\u2019s leader, Hemedti.<br \/>\nIshag Abdullah Khatir, 30 from Geneina in West Sudan whose leg was amputated after he was shot by RSF soldiers, walks through Ambelia refugee camp on April 20 in Adre, Chad in Adre, Chad.<br \/>\nSenators Call for Magnitsky Sanctions on Sudan\u2019s RSF<br \/>\nA group of U.S. senators has called for direct sanctions on Sudan\u2019s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the group\u2019s leader, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.<br \/>\nIn a letter dated Friday that was sent to U.S. President Joe Biden to call for sanctions under the Magnitsky Act, the senators write that Hemeti \u201chas committed abuses deserving of sanctions,\u201d referencing allegations that the RSF has carried out mass rape, abductions, and assassinations of prominent political figures.<br \/>\nThe lawmakers have given Biden 120 days to determine whether the RSF has carried out human rights atrocities and whether the president intends to impose sanctions.<br \/>\nLast September, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Hemeti\u2019s brother, Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, who is the RSF\u2019s deputy commander, and Abdul Rahman Juma, the group\u2019s top general in West Darfur.<br \/>\nAt a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, U.N. officials said around 800,000 people in the North Darfur capital of El Fasher are in \u201cextreme and immediate danger\u201d due to fighting between the RSF and the Darfur Joint Protection Forces\u2014non-Arab rebel groups aligned with the Sudanese army.<br \/>\nU.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the 15-member Security Council that reports of a possible \u201cimminent\u201d RSF attack on El Fasher, which serves as a humanitarian hub, raises \u201cthe specter of a new front in the conflict.\u201d DiCarlo added that \u201cfighting in El Fasher could unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur.\u201d<br \/>\nEarlier this month, clashes between the RSF and the Joint Protection Forces erupted in Mellit, a strategic town to the north of El Fasher. And west of the city, satellite imagery analyzed by Yale University\u2019s Humanitarian Research Lab indicated that at least nine communities had been razed and torched by RSF militias between March 31 and April 15.<br \/>\nThe predominantly ethnically Arab RSF and various local Arab militias have targeted Zaghawa, Masalit, Fur, and other non-Arab ethnic groups, killing thousands. There have been numerous accounts of women and girls being raped, sold in markets, and forced into prostitution by the RSF and allied militia.<br \/>\nThe atrocities resemble a repeat of the civil war that began in Darfur in 2003, when Arab \u201cjanjaweed\u201d militias killed thousands of non-Arabs. In the current conflict, U.N. relief agencies have raised the alarm on risks of famine following reported deaths from starvation. A conference in Paris last week raised 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in international aid for Sudan. But security experts say that the solution to ending the conflict is to stop the supply of foreign arms.<br \/>\nDiCarlo told council members that the war was being fueled by weapons from foreign nations that flout U.N. sanctions. Foreign supply of arms \u201chas been the main reason why this war has lasted for so long,\u201d said Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the chairman of the African Union\u2019s panel on Sudan and high representative for its \u201cSilence the Guns in Africa\u201d initiative.<br \/>\nThe war has drawn in regional militias and nations including Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Ukraine. It has displaced 9 million people\u2014around four times the entire population of Gaza\u2014but has been met with little media attention. \u201cThrough the sounds of gunfire and shelling, the people of Sudan have heard our silence,\u201d Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, wrote last month.<br \/>\nRights groups have called for support in establishing international investigations and direct consequences for the warring generals and foreign allies, as suggested by U.S. lawmakers. Peace negotiations are to resume in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, within the next three weeks, according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:Gbadamos-Nosmot Lawmakers are calling for direct measures against the group\u2019s leader, Hemedti. Ishag Abdullah Khatir, 30 from Geneina in West Sudan whose leg was amputated after he was shot by RSF soldiers, walks through Ambelia refugee camp on April 20 in Adre, Chad in Adre, Chad. 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