Horrific reports of rape, sexual violence persist as Sudan war goes on: UN humanitarian chief

By artappraiser on Sun, 10/15/2023 - 11:31pm |

Fighting has killed up to 9,000 and forced millions of people out of their homes, either to safer areas inside Sudan or in neighboring countries, says UN humanitarian chief

The war has displaced more than 4.5 million people were displaced inside Sudan, while over 1.2 million others sought refuge in neighboring countries

CAIRO: Six months of war between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary group has killed up to 9,000 people and created “one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history,” the United Nations humanitarian chief said Sunday.

Sudan has been engulfed in chaos since mid-April, when simmering tensions between military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and the commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open warfare.
“For six months, civilians ... have known no respite from bloodshed and terror,” UN Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths said in a statement marking the six-month anniversary of the war. “Horrific reports of rape and sexual violence continue to emerge.” [....]

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And just today someone was telling me about the "right of return" for displaced persons, as if life's remotely fair. I'm also tres of seeing the Gaza attack compared to the Holocaust, as if the sheer magnitudes of difference don't matter t'all.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/17/2023 - 2:42pm

Sudan Faces World’s Largest Internal Displacement Crisis https://t.co/UvLhHbuxNa
— Isma'il Kushkush (@ikushkush) October 19, 2023

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/23/2023 - 1:14pm

~10,000 have been killed in Sudan

900,000 are homeless and displaced. Don’t forget about the people of Sudan. pic.twitter.com/QwuDGj0oft
— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) October 30, 2023

Hundreds of civilians in the city of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur State, began a new wave of displacement on Tuesday, following repeated reports of impending battles between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.

Last Thursday, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)… pic.twitter.com/7D7zwfTWum
— Ayin Network - شبكة عاين (@AyinSudan) November 1, 2023

Analysis: "Fall of the Nyala and Zalingei garrisons closes one chapter and opens another in new Darfur war"

This report contains:
Political & security implications of this news
Details about Zalingei
Other conflict updates from across Sudanhttps://t.co/WSA5dhOYCg
— Sudan War Monitor (@sudanwarmonitor) October 31, 2023

by artappraiser on Wed, 11/01/2023 - 1:48pm

Today in Sudan news, UN officials call for people to pay attention to the world's largest refugee crisis while new reports emerge that those who haven't fled are being abducted and held as slaves. pic.twitter.com/J36a2sbf8T
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 3, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/03/2023 - 7:11pm

^ The U.N. brings up the word SLAVERY and still they mostly get *crickets* in response. Sometimes it seems like Israel is by far the most popular villain and no matter what others do, they cannot be dethroned.

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/03/2023 - 7:17pm

The thing about Rashida Tlaib is she’s Palestinian, it makes perfect sense for her to be mad at Israel and fired-up about it … what’s sus is all the people who *aren’t* Palestinian and seem to care 1000x more about this than any other humanitarian issue.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 3, 2023

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/04/2023 - 5:11am

BREAKING:

Jihadi militias have murdered more than 800 black Africans from the Massalit tribe in Darfur, Sudan over the past few days.

In this video, the Hamas-allied Jihadis film themselves capturing black Africans.

Any protest march planned in London? pic.twitter.com/qo3gK4TzQf
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 7, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 8:28am

Not jihadi, but Arab RSF militias in the ongoing civil war in #Sudn. They have little to do with Hamas but are part of the long ethnic violence in #Darfur. True, though, nobody cares about this disaster that has seen tens of thousands of casualties and millions of IDPS. Nobody https://t.co/HEE93s3u0H
— Yaniv Voller (@YanivVoller) November 7, 2023

Reports from West #Darfur received today unveil that 773 African civilians including mostly teenagers, but women and elderly as well, have been massacred by the Jihadi #Janjaweed in the #Geneina area. Reports talks about hundreds burned and many detained and brutalized on their… pic.twitter.com/2Kw9BDW1UL
— Walid Phares (@WalidPhares) November 7, 2023

Raw video sent by #Darfur NGOs showing Janjaweed jihadists "celebrating the massacre of African tribes, and showing (evidence) a number of tribesmen they killed.#DaowdIbrahimSalih, Chairman of Sudan Liberation Movement, successor to former leader Khamis Abdallah Abakar,… pic.twitter.com/U4GU3zAVAT
— Walid Phares (@WalidPhares) November 7, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 8:44am

Don't know what to make of this but DEFINITELY worth sharing

EXCLUSIVE: Videos Show Ukrainian Special Forces 'Cleaning Up' Wagner Fighters in Sudan

One of the videos purportedly shows Ukrainian operatives stalking the streets of the African city and engaging Wagner fighters at close range with RPGs. pic.twitter.com/wD5noCk3Kt
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) November 6, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 8:36am

RSF attacked a displaced persons camp in Darfur, killing over a thousand people.

Reportedly went door to door searching for men and executing them all. https://t.co/tCyryJHQ8x
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 11, 2023

The murderous RSF (Rapid Support Forces) is a paramilitary group that used to work with the Sudanese government but has now split with them in a civil war. The RSF was based on the Janjaweed, Arab militias that carried out a real genocide in the early 2000s (killing over 200k). https://t.co/b2LmALANMM
— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) November 11, 2023

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/11/2023 - 8:06pm

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) besieged a camp for displaced people on November 2 after attacking a nearby army base in West Darfur. Over the next three days, the paramilitary group committed what may amount to the single largest mass killing since the civil war erupted in April.

Local monitors told Al Jazeera that about 1,300 people were killed, 2,000 injured and 310 remain missing.

“They went house to house to search for men and killed each one they found,” said Montesser Saddam*, who barely escaped the killing and arrived in Chad on Sunday. “There were so many corpses in the streets.”...

continued at Al Jazeera Nov. 10

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/11/2023 - 8:11pm

And there a more accurate use of the term "genocide", to massacre and erase these tribes from their homes. Protest Central Park?

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/12/2023 - 1:51am

This is not Gaza! This is a mass grave in Sudan, in which even some who are alive, are also getting buried. pic.twitter.com/bGFQnxtF3E
— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) November 17, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/17/2023 - 3:32pm

Sudan Genocide is WILD.. pic.twitter.com/K7ZTcqRoV6
— Conscious Lee (@TheConsciousLee) November 9, 2023

Sounding like Al-Gony and Yousef Ezzat might be next up on the US sanctions list. Both are certainly deserving under the US Executive Order on #Sudan and both would send a strong message to the RSF that their slick public relations efforts aren't working. https://t.co/Gsu4BWNi6e pic.twitter.com/aw9rneYDz5
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 17, 2023

Sudan is facing a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.

6 million displaced people.

Thousands killed.

UNHCR is supporting people wherever we have safe access.

But without urgent international action, this catastrophe could engulf the entire country and region. pic.twitter.com/RzUwwXmfsw
— UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) November 17, 2023

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/17/2023 - 3:37pm

Watched this, was very good; kudos to CNN for trying to balance things:

In a deeply personal dispatch from her home country, CNN's @nimaelbagir reports on "Going Home: The War in Sudan".

The new episode of #TheWholeStory with @AndersonCooper airs this weekend on CNN and CNN International.

Details: https://t.co/oDElyaE7xh pic.twitter.com/akpho9g4kV
— CNN International PR (@cnnipr) November 13, 2023

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/19/2023 - 11:30pm

UN Sec. General on #Sudan: It's time to call a spade a spade; 2 generals completely disregard the interest of their population in a pure struggle for power.
(Q asked by @sherwiebp) pic.twitter.com/145nqYkfMa
— Nabil Abi Saab (@NabilAbiSaab) November 28, 2023

A clear assessment on the situation in Sudan by @antonioguterres. pic.twitter.com/AjD27ESr5c
— UN Spokesperson (@UN_Spokesperson) November 28, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/28/2023 - 11:44pm

Sudanese general Mohammed al-Atta accuses UAE of supporting RSF with weapons, transiting through several neighboring states. The question is why is this deemed newsworthy when he is simply restating facts that have been painfully obvious for months? https://t.co/W6ikHFDs1n
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

The real question is: why isn't everyone stating publicly that UAE is prolonging the war and enabling a genocidal militia to gain the upper hand? Washington had these facts months before the @wsj or @nytimes published investigations and yet said nothing. Why? Silence=complicity.
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Heartbreaking https://t.co/7tAPosRL0r
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/28/2023 - 11:49pm

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