Port Sudan: The Official Spokesman’s Platform
Press Statement
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes the successive international condemnations of ongoing rebel militia atrocities, especially in West Darfur State, these include condemnations issued by the European Union, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a joint statement by the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway, in addition to documented and shocking testimonies reported by international media agencies such as CNN, the New York Times, and the World Street Journal, for victims of ethnic cleansing and the atrocities it carries out by the militia. .
The High Commissioner for Human Rights Spokesperson’s statement on 17th of November expressed shock at reports and witness testimony that the Janjaweed rebel militia and allied militias had carried out ethnically motivated attacks and mass killings, where hundreds of civilians from the Masalit tribe were killed, with many of the victims being executed immediately or burn them alive.
The statement also referred to other atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Militia, including torture, rape crimes, and sexual violence against women and girls in the camp for the displaced in Adrimta and in homes as well, and the torture and killing of those fleeing the conflict, and the abuse of their bodies and leaving them in the open area, in addition to acts of destruction, burning, looting and robbing property in clear violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. The statement also renewed High Commissioner Volker Türk’s call to the leadership of the rebel militia to immediately stop killing, violence and hate speech targeting civilians with ethnic motives.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs renews its condemnation in the strongest terms of the crimes and atrocities of the rebel militia and its shocking violations of international humanitarian and human rights law and the Geneva Conventions and their relevant protocols in the states of West Darfur, Central Darfur, North Darfur, North Kordofan and Khartoum.
The Ministry welcomes the successive statements of condemnation on behalf of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other international parties. However, the Ministry renews its call to the United Nations and the international community to skip the stage of statements of condemnation to classify this rebel militia as a terrorist group.
