Fresh Evidence that a Member of the UN Security Council is Arming a Genocidal Militia in Sudan

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A new extension has been built at Farchana camp in Chad's Ouaddaï province, where over 4,000 Sudanese refugees have been relocated from the border.© UNHCR/Ariadne Kypriadi

It’s long been something of an open secret that the United Arab Emirates backs the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese paramilitary group. In April, when civil war broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, there was little doubt that the Abu Dhabi would throw its weight behind the RSF.

But what is shocking is the extent to which the UAE is arming the RSF even as they carry out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Western Darfur that borders on genocide. Deeper still, the UAE is currently a member of the Security Council, and it is fueling a potential genocide in direct violation of a longstanding arms embargo on Sudan imposed by the Security Council.

The UAE denies all this — but there has been ample reporting to the contrary.

The RSF is the successor to the Janjaweed militia that…