🚨 This photo best exemplifies the horror UAE-backed RSF militias are inflicting on the Sudanese people, today.
Footage emerging from the city of Al Fashir surely ranks amongst the worst examples of human rights abuses I have witnessed in my nearly two decades covering war crimes and atrocities for international media outlets.
Women and children rounded up and raped in front of their husbands, fathers and brothers, before being shot or hacked to death and tossed into mass graves.
More than 2,000 Sudanese civilians have been killed this way during the past week alone.
They are being murdered by UAE-backed forces and UK-sold weapons. This is a proxy war to seize control of the African country’s land and resources.
Yet the world is silent!
Been doing and following OSINT research for 12 years. Never before have I read about there being so much blood it could be spotted by satellite.
But that's now the reality in El Fasher (Sudan 🇸🇩)
هذه مأساة مدينة الفاشر السودانية بالأرقام عقب يومين فقط من سيطرة الد،،عم السر،،يع عليها :
130,000 طفل محاصر في المدينة
2,000 مدني قتلوا خلال هذين اليومين
177,000 مدني يعتقد أنهم ما زالوا محاصرين داخلها
نازحون بالآلاف مصيرهم مجهول
From Sudan's Red Sea Coasts, meet Noori & His Dropa Band - Artwork by yours truly, for @OSTLP
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Their album "Beja Power!", the Beja people's first international musical encounter.
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A link below to watch Noori & His Dropa Band perform their music live.
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Enjoy 🌹
⭕️ كفي صمت مخزي من المجتمع الدولي ..
كلمة مندوب السودان ف مجلس الأمن الدولي اليوم كانت قوية وواضحة،مدعومة بالأدلة والبيانات المتعلقة بدعم #الإمارات وصمت الأمم المتحدة المخزي عن ذكرها. لقد أرسل رسالة واضحة للعالم والأمم المتحدة بأن السودان لن ينكسر أبداً، مهما كان الثمن،معنا الله
Wow! UAE Ambassador to UN calls allegations that it is supplying the RSF "ludicrous." While he is addressing only Sudan's complaint, the same allegation has been made repeatedly by US officials and the UN itself. How stupid does Abu Dhabi think the world is?
When I was younger, I could never understand how normal, ordinary Germans could have supported - actively or passively - the Holocaust
I think I understand now
These numbers are atrocious.
Today, 4,874,558 people are reported to have fled the harrowing armed conflict in #Sudan over the past 136 days, and are surviving on very little except the generosity of already-impoverished communities in Sudan, a threadbare #humanitarian response, and their own resourcefulness and resolve. But some don't survive at all.
By the end of next week, perhaps more than five million people will have been displaced in less than five months.
The week after, more people than Ireland.
The week after that, more people than Costa Rica and New Zealand.
The week after that, more people than Lebanon, Palestine, and perhaps Norway...
Before this crisis, Sudan hosted over a million refugees from neighbouring countries, mostly from South Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia - but since, over a million people have fled from the country, mostly Sudanese, and mostly to Egypt and Chad. Five years ago, the world signed a 'global compact' agreeing to support states hosting refugees, but the refugee response here remains disgracefully underfunded.
While the world looks the other way, the number of people uprooted by this crisis is beginning to dwarf some of its larger economies. This worldwide indifference won't only be a stain on the world's conscience in years to come, but it'll also quickly become an unmanageable and intractable - and avertable - regional crisis.
There must be an urgent change in attention and engagement on Sudan. There needs to be decisive leadership, sufficient compassion, and a transformative approach that provides relief to and reversal of this conflagration.
So, enough of this 'social loafing' on a global scale, half-heartedly responding to reports of mass ethnic killings, looming famine, unprecedented displacement, disease outbreaks, aerial bombardments, systemic rape... What more suffering is expected from the millions of people of Sudan, which other horseman of the apocalypse is yet to be sighted, before the world snaps into action?
If you read this far, then you are a patient and compassionate soul. But I hope that you're also outraged - not feeling pity or sorrow somehow. Outraged at the institutional and global indifference, and to demand better from your representatives, from institutions you work for, or for you to share more about what's happening with those whom aren't aware. Change is hard but possible, more lives can be saved, more suffering can be reduced or averted, but ultimately it starts with attention that turns into compassionate action.
https://t.co/Ihsywz95T8
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photo: *Amina, a Sudanese woman displaced from the fighting in Khartoum, hosting 15 relatives in a makeshift tent, in White Nile, Sudan
photo credit: NRC/Ahmed Omer
N.B. *Amina had nothing to do with this (should-have-been-better-written) post, but she is one of the (almost five million) faces of people displaced by this armed conflict. The total number is atrocious. But every number, every individual number, is a person, a soul, a story. Just like you.