Yale Genocide Studies Program

Genocide and Mass Atrocities

Prevention, Intervention, Participation, Bystanding/Upstanding, Justice, Memorialization

[Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU]

🇨🇩🇪🇺New, harrowing @amnesty report on DRC.

Together with the wider international community, the European Union and its member states must act to protect civilians and urgently press the DRC government to immediately cease support for these abusive armed groups.

[CIJ_ICJ @CIJ_ICJ]

PRESS RELEASE: The #DRC today filed an Application instituting proceedings against #Rwanda before the #ICJ with regard to a dispute concerning “abuses attributable to Rwanda over a period extending from 1996 to the present day”.

Link to the press release: https://t.co/AnLyjtIQJS

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Niger has officially submitted its request to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. This decision deprives victims of international crimes of a crucial path to justice.

African Union and ICC states should call on Niger to reverse its withdrawal.

[The Sentry @TheSentry_Org]

The #UAE sponsors the @NBA & the @nyknicks. They also sponsor a genocidal militia in #Sudan with weapons and drones.

They would hate for you to share this: https://t.co/5kWVtfAfqF

#NBAPlayoffs #NBA #Sudan #SudanWar #NYKnicks

[Yale Genocide Studies Program @David_J_Simon]

https://t.co/HWHHe9EB8Z

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇸🇩 A defected RSF field commander said at a press conference in Khartoum Wednesday that the UAE is providing full military and logistical support to the Rapid Support Forces, including drones, weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, training, and medical treatment for wounded RSF leadership from the Dagalo family.

Ali al-Tayeb Muhammad Musa, who said he received training at UAE camps alongside other RSF fighters, said supply flights depart from the UAE to airports in Libya, Chad, and Somalia before reaching Darfur — with the same routes used in reverse. He said new supply routes through Ethiopian airports have emerged recently.

He also confirmed the presence of foreign mercenaries fighting alongside RSF, including Colombian nationals.

[Yale Genocide Studies Program @David_J_Simon]

@AfricaMediaHub @SecRubio These guys have the right idea: https://t.co/vXY2SjEAxG

[Sudan Tribune @SudanTribune_EN]

A French parliamentary delegation head says he will propose designating the RSF as a terrorist organization following talks in Khartoum with Sudan’s Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The proposal cites documented atrocities and urges a firmer line on UAE arms supplies.
https://t.co/MwXSO10V7B
#Sudan #France #Khartoum

[Yale Genocide Studies Program @David_J_Simon]

@AfricaMediaHub @SecRubio This is an important minimum. But to fully address Sudan's humanitarian catastrophe, outside powers must cease supplying weapons to the RSF and SAF. Mainly this refers to the UAE-RSF flow of weapons, but not exclusively. Cut the SAF's supply off too.

[Sudan Tribune @SudanTribune_EN]

A French parliamentary delegation head says he will propose designating the RSF as a terrorist organization following talks in Khartoum with Sudan’s Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The proposal cites documented atrocities and urges a firmer line on UAE arms supplies.
https://t.co/MwXSO10V7B
#Sudan #France #Khartoum

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇸🇩 SUDAN | “We discovered something that was quite shocking [earlier this year]… RSF is very munition or ammo fragile. If the supply lines are disrupted, even 30% for RSF… they will go into what’s called ammo drought.”

Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, argues the war will not be won mainly through battlefield maneuvers, but by pressuring the supply network and the external backers, chiefly the UAE, which enables RSF resupply.

He says Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) battlefield momentum earlier this year coincided with disruptions to RSF supply routes, forcing heavier reliance on Libya and other overland corridors.

But he argues that dynamic has recently shifted, with RSF regaining momentum as SAF offensives slowed amid fuel shortages linked to the Iran war and mounting pressure along the Blue Nile front tied to Ethiopia-based operations. SAF is more fuel-reliant than RSF, he explains.

(From a May 8 Twitter Space hosted by @hiwaratt featuring @nattyray11)

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

The Abraham Accords were sold as a pathway to regional peace and stability. Instead they’ve fueled a new era of conflict.

New piece in @ForeignPolicy
https://t.co/oFwYQvilE2

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[Yale Genocide Studies Program @David_J_Simon]

"The United States bears responsibility for violations of those rules by the U.S. armed forces"

On Ambassador Waltz’s Defense of Potential Law of War Violations in the Iran Conflict at https://t.co/rov7USnjUi

[The Elders @TheElders]

Speaking to @NPR, Mary Robinson warns that President Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is a dangerous attempt to undermine the UN Security Council and concentrate power in his own hands.

🎧 Listen in full: https://t.co/0icMQTRf4s

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

A drone attack by the United Arab Emirates-armed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces hit a kindergarten in south-central Sudan, killing 50 people, including 33 children. Why won't anyone publicly press the UAE to stop aiding and abetting such atrocities? https://t.co/BBWfW8QYJ8

[Nathaniel Raymond @nattyray11]

Reminder that RSF blocked food shipments to El Fasher for a year and a half, causing an IPC Level 5 famine to be declared.

[Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH]

Since July 2023, @HRL_YaleSPH warned USG and the intl community that this day could come to El-Fasher. Our satellite 🛰️ imagery analysis corroborates horrific reports from the ground.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Over 460 people were reportedly killed at a hospital in western Darfur that was taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO chief says. https://t.co/vhRdXRC7uG

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

'Massacre' in Sudan as RSF drone attack kills at least 53 including 14 children and 15 women
https://t.co/cuuoQGaJAZ

[Nathaniel Raymond @nattyray11]

If you had to sum up the Sudan civil war in a sentence 👇👇👇