{"id":62051,"date":"2026-09-04T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=62051"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:53:40","slug":"washington-rapid-support-forces-committed-genocidal-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/washington-rapid-support-forces-committed-genocidal-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington: Rapid Support Forces Committed \u201cGenocidal Crimes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. Special Envoy to the President for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, said in a joint statement on Friday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia had \u201ccommitted genocidal crimes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The joint statement added that the RSF had \u201ckilled civilians and raped women and girls,\u201d stressing that the UN Security Council must deliver justice for Sudan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The statement came after Massad Boulos failed to persuade the UN Security Council to expand the arms embargo imposed on Darfur to cover all of Sudan, and to add \u201cdrones\u201d to the list of weapons prohibited in Sudan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Several countries, including Russia and China, objected to equating the Sudanese Armed Forces, which are defending unarmed civilians, with a rebel militia responsible for the atrocities acknowledged in the U.S. officials\u2019 statement on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Special Envoy to the President for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, said in a joint statement on Friday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia had \u201ccommitted genocidal crimes.\u201d The joint statement added that the RSF had \u201ckilled civilians and raped women &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62052,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62051\/revisions\/62052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}