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[TomAnning @TomAnning]

Trying to move everyone's attention away from the genocide you're enabling, so they focus more on the other genocide you're enabling 🤯🤓

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The UK could have stopped a genocidal massacre in Sudan’s El Fasher but failed to act over concerns it would anger the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a top war crimes expert has told Parliament.

Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond said he provided the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with intelligence for more than two years warning that the fall of El Fasher would unleash “one of the single largest mass casualty events of the 21st century”.

With his warnings ignored, more than 60,000 people were killed when the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the Northern Darfur state capital last October. The UN has since said the massacre showed “hallmarks of genocide”.

Addressing parliament’s International Development Committee on Tuesday, Raymond said his team from the Yale School of Public Health believed the UK was its “best hope” for stopping the siege. But his team’s warnings were ignored despite two dozen private meetings with the office of then-foreign secretary David Lammy.

He told MPs that Lammy’s officials prioritised the government’s “economic, security, and diplomatic relationships with the UAE” above “the genocidal slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians living in El Fasher and its surrounding communities”.

As the sole penholder for Sudan at the United Nations Security Council, the UK is responsible for driving international response to the conflict.

“They told me that the UK was facing significant private pressure behind the scenes from the UAE limiting its ability to affect the situation,” Raymond told MPs.

“Direct sanctions against UAE officials, at minimum, could have been used to interdict the clandestine UAE pipeline of advanced weaponry flowing to the RSF,” he added.

A UN report published Tuesday found that the RSF is responsible for 87% of verified incidents of rape and sexual slavery in Sudan, including el-Fasher, since the outbreak of violence in 2023.

“The tragedy of El Fasher shows that advanced technology and analysis can provide leaders essential decision support information, but satellite data and computing power cannot by itself generate either political will or moral courage,” said Raymond.

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

@Vall3y @cmeissnr @khole_emily Or you like coffee?

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

What's happened?

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

Anyone else getting these?

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

It's literally all the ads now

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

@hering_david

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

This is what the Tories want here in the UK

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

A list of the US regime change efforts in Latin America over the years:

1846–1848 – Mexico
1898 – Cuba
1903 - Panama
1906–1909 - Cuba
1909 - Nicaragua
1912–1933 - Nicaragua
1913 -Mexico
1914 - Mexico
1915–1934 - Haiti
1916–1924 - Dominican Republic
1916–1917 - Mexico
1932 – El Salvador
1933–1940s – Cuba
1944 – Guatemala
1946 – Bolivia
1948 – Costa Rica
1952 – Cuba
1953–1954 – British Guiana
1954 – Guatemala
1960s: Cold War Escalation
1960–1961 – Cuba
1961 – Cuba
1961 – Dominican Republic
1962–1963 – Brazil
1963 – Dominican Republic
1963 – Ecuador
1963 – Honduras
1964 – Brazil
1964 – Bolivia
1965 – Dominican Republic
1966–1996 – Guatemala
1970s: Operation Condor Era
1970–1973 – Chile
1971 – Bolivia
1973 – Chile
1973 – Uruguay
1976 – Argentina
1976–1983 – Region-wide (Operation Condor)
1979 – Nicaragua
1980–1989 – Nicaragua
1980–1992 – El Salvador
1980s – Honduras
1980–1992 – Guatemala
1980s – Jamaica
1982 – Bolivia
1983 – Grenada
1989 – Panama
1991 – Haiti
1994 – Haiti
2002 – Venezuela
2004 – Haiti
2009 – Honduras
2019 – Bolivia
2017–present – Venezuela
2018–present – Nicaragua

Every U.S. president from 1901–present has been involved in Latin American regime change. The US remains an imperialist presence in Latin America.

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

@sallonsax Will those rules not become harder to defend if the parties are closely cooperating with eachother?

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Since 7 October 2023 an average of 27 children have been killed in Gaza by Israel every single day.

A whole classroom of children wiped out everyday by a genocidal regime, even while queuing for food and water.

And still the UK government sells them weapons. Shame on them.

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

@salwilliam @clampino @Variety

[TomAnning @TomAnning]

@rachellapides

[eddie mitchell @brightonsnapper]

Brighton

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."

RT if Mick is right.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

My fear is Labour are going to respond to the Reform surge in their seats by escalating anti-migrant bashing.

This is wrong in principle - but you can see what happened in Europe when “centrists” tried the same strategy.

Spoiler: it legitimised and fuelled the far right.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

A Israeli soldiers used a humanitarian aid truck & a civilian car to sneak into central Gaza & execute today's operation that butchered over 215 Gazans & released 4 hostages.

They then escaped through Biden's "humanitarian pier", knowing it won't be targeted by Hamas🧵

[Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein]

The other day I participated in a debate with Israeli professor Benny Morris and That Thing Called Destiny. They mocked the notion that Gaza was verging on famine.

[ITV News @itvnews]

Moment innocent civilian brandishing white flag in Gaza 'safe zone' is shot dead in the street | @johnirvineitv reports

https://t.co/eHNBbDXHm2