After a year of blood bath in Sudan republic, the United States has concluded yesterday that members of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had “committed genocide” and imposed sanctions on the paramilitary group’s leader.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this known while briefing newsmen, saying, the decision was based on information about the RSF’s “systematic” murder of men and boys and the targeted rape of women and girls from
certain ethnic groups.
Blinken said, “The United States is committed to holding accountable those responsible,” while announcing sanctions against RSF leader Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, popularly known as Hemedti, for his “role in systematic atrocities committed against the Sudanese people.”
According to the statement, Daglo had been designated “for his involvement in gross violations of human rights in Darfur, namely the mass rape of civilians by RSF soldiers under his control,” and he and his family members are now ineligible for entry to the United States, he said.
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted after World War II, defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”Dailytrust.
