The Republic of Sudan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Office of the Spokesperson and Media Directorate

Press Statement

In the past two days, the RSF Janjaweed militia committed yet another massacre in Al-Hilaliya city, Al-Jazira State. The death toll of the massacre so far is 120 martyrs, killed either by bullets or as a result of food poisoning and lack of medical care at the illegal detention centers where the militia is holding several hundred civilians, including women and children, as hostages.

This heinous crime comes shortly after the carnage carried out by the militia over the last two weeks in the village of Al-Sariha and 58 other villages and 6 towns east of Al-Jazira, where hundreds of civilians were killed during the horrific revenge attacks by the Janjaweed mercenaries following the defection of a number of the militia leaders. International condemnations of these massacres are still ongoing.

The latest horrific massacre also coincides with a similar brutal revenge campaign by the militia against defenseless villagers in North Darfur, following the failure of its repeated attacks on Al-Fasher. During this campaign, the RSF Janjaweed set more than 40 villages ablaze.

The above-described pattern clearly indicates that the terrorist militia does not care about verbal condemnations or international resolutions that are not supported by decisive measures to ensure implementation. This is evidenced by the militia’s response to UN Security Council Resolution No. 2736, issued nearly six months ago. In flagrant contempt of the Security Council resolution, the militia has further intensified its shelling of residential areas and IDP camps in the city.

The systematic escalation of massacres and atrocities by the savage militia aims to instigate an international military intervention in Sudan under the pretext of protecting civilians. Its ultimate goal is to avoid complete military defeat and retain the sites it currently occupies, including hundreds of thousands of civilian homes in the capital and other cities, while continuing the detention of thousands of civilian hostages in secret detention centers. This is precisely the modus operandi of terrorist groups.

Thus, instead of giving in to this terrorist blackmail by entertaining the idea of military intervention, the international community ought to characterize the Janjaweed militia as a terrorist group, pursue its leaders and members as fugitives wanted by international justice, and treat those abetting or supporting it, or hosting its leaders and spokesmen, as sponsors of terrorism complicit in the crimes of the militia.

Thursday, 7 November 2024