[SUDANTRIBUNE] Fifteen months of the RSF militia’s war against the Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese people, and the associated unprecedented atrocities have so far met inadequate response from the international community.
True, the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2736,13 June 2024, which demands the RSF end its siege of El-Fasher is significant. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... it falls short of unequivocally condemning the Militia for its brutal crimes.
Between April and December 2023, the RSF and its affiliated militias were responsible for the deaths of 10,000 to 15,000 civilians in West Darfur, according to a Panel of Independent Experts assigned by the Security Council. The U.S. State Department determined in December 2023 that the RSF committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of ethnic cleansing reminiscent of genocide. A bipartisan draft resolution in the US Congress also recognized these actions as genocide.
On June 5th 2024, another carnage took place in Wad-al-Nora village, al-Gazirah state. Around 270 villagers were slaughtered.
Despite global outrage over these crimes, in many aspects, the international community’s response appears slow, and insufficient and amounts to apathy.
APATHY ENCOURAGES IMPUNITY
The result is continued and unchecked ethnic cleansing and killings by the Militia in different parts of the country. The latest UN resolution and international condemnations essentially call for the RSF to behave themselves. This soft approach mistakenly assumes the Militia possesses a level of morality, legitimacy or discipline. The RAF’s response to the resolution; a major attack on El-Fasher, demonstrates its disregard for international diplomacy.
SHORT MEMORY?
Historically, the Janjaweed were globally known for their brutality in the Darfur conflict, with their crimes leading to the International Criminal Court’s involvement in 2005. Yet, certain Western quarters seem to have forgotten that the RSF is essentially an upgraded version of the Janjaweed, as the Enough Project puts it. Various international publications equally recall that the RSF evolved from the Janjaweed, infamous for ethnic cleansing and genocide. Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, explains "The RSF grew out of, and is primarily composed of, the Janjaweed militias".
Nevertheless, the leader of the Janjaweed, Hemetti, has been elevated to an international figure, receiving calls from the UN Secretary-General and the US Secretary of State, given a red carpet reception by a pro-West East African president, and even invited to an IGAD summit. This occurs even as the RSF militia continues its atrocities now spanning, beside Darfur, al-Gazirah, Greater Kordofan, Khartoum, and Sennar states, fully backed by its wealthy regional sponsor, the UAE, which supplies advanced weaponry, mercenaries, finance, and extensive PR and propaganda networks.
Thus, compared to its response to the Janjaweed crimes during the Darfur conflict 2003-2009, the international community seems this time indifferent towards their renewed atrocities, though the current victims constitute almost half of the Sudanese population.
CHANGING CONTEXT
Hemetti’s rise to the post of Deputy President of the Sovereign Council occurred during an extremely difficult transitional period following the ousting of the former regime by a popular uprising. As the nation emerged from multiple conflicts and with a view to minimizing any resistance to the change that would exacerbate the already precarious situation, the RSF had to be accommodated, along with the very armed struggle movements whom it had been fighting on behalf of the former regime. It was envisaged then that such arrangements would usher the country into a new dispensation based on a broader national accord. Accordingly, RSF was supposed to be integrated into the national army, SAF, after being reformed and rehabilitated, under the supervision of the latter. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... meddling in the process from both external powers and local politicians aborted this effort, strengthening the RSF instead. Thanks to its regional sponsor and appropriation of the bigger part of the country’s gold wealth, the Militia now boasts advanced weaponry, significant economic control, and a PR network. Sudan was a few steps away from joining the list of Middle Eastern countries that are effectively run by militias.
With the heavy losses in manpower it suffered early in the war, the Militia has reverted to its Janjaweed origins, especially after the termination of SAF officer secondments and voluntary demobilizations within the RSF. Hemetti was removed from his post in May 2023, and the RSF was disbanded by the SAF Commander in September 2023. Therefore, it is Janjaweed unmasked who are now fighting the Sudanese people.
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back in 2004 or so, the Janjaweed crimes in Dafar were big news
this was twinned with condemnation of the Bush Admin for not preventing it, various truce initiatives led to reducing the violence by about 2006
when Obama became Prez, the Janjaweed were basically out of the news
in 2020 a comprehensive agreement of sorts was signed but in the summer of 2021 renewed violence began and since 2022 there has basically been a civil war between factions of the military
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It would be nice if something other than Sudan Tribune articles appeared here. There is an ethnic struggle going on in the Sudan, with the various ethnicities choosing sides: pro-Arab, or anti-Arab. The Sudan Tribune has chosen the Arab side, Darfur and the western ethnicities have chosen otherwise. The cry has begun that starvation will cause tens of thousands of death in El Fasher, and one can expect the Sudan Tribune will continue to beat that drum in the hope of retaining the only Arab city left in western Sudan.
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If you have better English-language sources, AB — or are willing to provide translations, like badanov does for his Ukrainian and Russian sources — please submit articles from them. By design Rantburg is limited to open source information in our attempt since 9/11 to figure out what’s going on in the War on Terror (plus other interesting stuff). But online news sites regularly appear and disappear, so we’re always interested in useful ones, not to mention posters willing to take on coverage of a key area of operation.
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Just one resource: Africa
AFRICA, HORN OF AFRICA
EEPA Situation Report, Horn of Africa, No. 561 – 18 July 2024
Date: 18/07/2024
Author: Martin Plaut
Situation in Sudan (per 18 July)
The Ombadda Block 5 neighbourhood in Omdurman is completely uninhabitable due to no remaining services, functional markets, hospitals, or medical centres. Widespread waste and decomposing corpses make the neighbourhood unsanitary.
Representatives from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) travelled to Geneva for “indirect talks” under auspices of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Sudan, Ramtane Lamamra, focusing on humanitarian aid, safe humanitarian corridors and civilian protection.
Lamamra met separately with representatives from each side, however, a direct meeting between the two Sudanese parties has not been scheduled.
800,000 people are trapped in El Fasher, North Darfur, without food, water or access to medical services, said the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO warned of looming famine and hunger and need for a sustainable plan for delivery of humanitarian and relief supplies.
Hunger and acute lack of food is one of the main reasons for Sudanese refugees to flee the country. “They said it’s not insecurity, it’s not lack of access to basic services, but because we have nothing to eat there,” said Dr Shible Sahbani, WHO Representative to Sudan.
One third of wounded persons of Sudan’s conflict had been women and children under the age of 10, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Sennar city has been cut off from access to food and fuel by RSF. Flour and rice are fully sold out at the markets and grain mills cannot produce new flour due to the lack of electricity, confirmed resistance committees in Sennar.
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[KavkazUzel] The state prosecutor demanded a 22-year sentence for Ingushetia native Malik Gandaloev
… the radicalized former medical student who participated in the Rostov jailbreak…
in the case of participation in the "Islamic State"* and the manufacture of explosives. Gandaloev is also one of the defendants in the hostage-taking in Rostov-on-Don's Pretrial Detention Center No. 1, where he was held during the investigation into the ISIS* case.
Thus Page 2: WoT Background. It’ll be Page 1 when the sentence is passed.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", in early March, Ingush security forces declared three students wanted, including Ingushetia native Malik Gandaloev, who was accused of manufacturing and storing explosives. Later, Gandaloev became the second defendant in the case of hostage-taking in Rostov-on-Don's SIZO-1.
In the case of Malik Gandaloev's participation in the international terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), which is banned in Russia by the court, as well as the manufacture and storage of explosives, the prosecutor demanded that Gandaloev be sentenced to 22 years in prison.
The state prosecutor demanded that Gandaloev be sentenced to 13 years in prison under the article on participation in a terrorist organization, and to nine years in prison under the article on illegal acquisition and storage of explosives. Under the article on illegal manufacture of explosive devices, the prosecutor requested 11 years in prison with a fine of 500 thousand rubles, TASS reported on July 16.
"For the totality of the crimes, by adding up the punishment, assign 22 years of imprisonment with a fine of 600 thousand rubles. The place of serving the sentence for a period of three years is determined to be prison, the remaining time - in a strict regime penal colony," the agency quoted the prosecutor as saying.
Let us recall that on June 16, prisoners in the Rostov pretrial detention center took two employees of the detention center hostage. They identified themselves as members of the "Islamic State"*, demanded a car, weapons, and the opportunity to leave the pretrial detention center. The security forces stormed the building, the hostage takers were killed, and the hostages were released. "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report " Taking of hostages in the Rostov pretrial detention center " with a chronology of these events.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also wrote that on March 23 it became known that a cache of food, a homemade explosive device and explosives had been found in the forest near the village of Alkhasty, where security forces detained Malik Gandaloev and Arsen Gammadov. The FSB stated that "there are reasonable suspicions" that the detainees were planning "crimes of a terrorist nature.
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[Regnum] The Dagestani blogger who mocked the Orthodox cross during an online broadcast must be severely punished by law. This was stated by the chairman of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus, Mufti Ismail Berdiev.
According to him, in this case one cannot limit oneself to public censure or condemnation from the community.
"There is a law. If you break it, you must answer. Without ceremony. There is no other way," Gazeta.Ru quotes the mufti as saying.
Earlier, the deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations with Society and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vakhtang Kipshidze, said in a Telegram channel that the blogger's actions were deeply offensive and criminal, and law enforcement agencies should respond to them. The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church added that he expects an unambiguous reaction from the Muslim community.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a blogger with the nickname Javier trampled and spat on an Orthodox cross, and also cursed all Christians with obscenities on July 12 during a stream launched on one of the popular platforms. It turned out that the broadcast was hosted by a native of the Tabasaran region of Dagestan, Khavier Yarmagomedov, who works as a security guard in Moscow. Yarmagomedov later recorded an apology, in which he stated that he allegedly became a victim of a provocation by some opponents.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case, the streamer was detained. The department explained that the blogger committed public actions with the aim of insulting religious feelings.
More from regnum.ru Blogger who trampled a cross was taken to the Investigative Committee
A blogger suspected of insulting the feelings of believers was taken to the investigative department of the Investigative Committee's Moscow office, the press service of the Investigative Committee reported on July 17.
During interrogation, the suspect stated that he regretted what he had done, according to a message on the Investigative Committee’s Telegram channel.
"He will be charged and a preventive measure will be chosen in the near future. A search was conducted at the defendant's place of residence," the Investigative Committee press service noted.
The suspect's phone and some other items were confiscated. He will also be checked for involvement in other crimes, including on the Internet, the department's press service reported.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a video was previously circulated on social networks in which a man abuses a pectoral cross - spitting on it, trampling on it, using obscene language, and also insulting Christians.
The author of the video is a native of Dagestan, Khavier Yarmagomedov, who currently lives in Moscow and works as a security guard, the media reported. Later, Yarmagomedov recorded an apology, in which he stated that he allegedly became a victim of a provocation by some opponents.
On July 17, the Investigative Committee reported that a criminal case had been opened under the article on insulting the feelings of believers. The suspect was quickly identified and detained, the report noted.
[JPost] US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke to Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant this week. "Secretary Austin told Minister Gallant that the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) temporary pier will soon cease operations," the Department of Defense noted in a statement. Thus ends the four-month saga of the floating Gaza pier.
The idea was rushed into action after the Gaza aid stampede in late February when dozens of Gazans were killed trying to get food from aid trucks that had reached northern Gaza. The images from the disaster spurred action in Washington. It was clear that after months of war, northern Gaza was on the brink of a possible humanitarian catastrophe. While a million people had evacuated northern Gaza, several hundred thousand remained.
The pier was supposed to enable food to be brought by sea to Gaza. Because it would be attached to the shore in an area Israel controlled, Hamas would not be able to divert the food to its own needs, as it was doing by controlling the Rafah crossing with Egypt. For Israel, the pier made initial sense because it would alleviate pressure regarding Israel’s actions in northern Gaza and also provide a conduit for food to arrive if and when the IDF went into Rafah.
nit keyn meynung vos a beibi fyeses mit vi lang vi es tut nisht veynen
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Aid being diverted. Isn't that how we got sucked into Somalia?
[GEO.TV] Pakistain on Wednesday issued a "strong demarche" to Afghanistan following a deadly terrorist attack on Bannu Cantonment two days ago which resulted in the martyrdom of eight soldiers and injured many others.
At least eight Pakistain Army soldiers had embraced martyrdom as security forces effectively thwarted a terrorist attack at Bannu Cantonment killing all 10 snuffies two days ago, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Tuesday.
The snuffies attacked the Bannu Cantonment in the early hours of July 15 but their attempt to enter the facility was effectively thwarted by the security forces personnel, resultantly the snuffies rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the perimeter wall of the cantonment, the military’s media wing had said.
In a statement today, the Foreign Office said the deputy head of mission of the embassy of Afghanistan in Islamabad was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today to deliver Pakistain’s strong demarche over the deadly terrorist attack on Bannu Cantonment.
The FO said the terrorist attack was carried out by the Hafiz Gul Bahadur ...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state.. group based in Afghanistan. The holy warrior group along with Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP), is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians and law enforcement officials in multiple terrorist attacks inside Pakistain, the statement added.
Islamabad urged Kabul to "fully investigate and take immediate, robust and effective action against the perpetrators of the Bannu attack and to prevent the recurrence of such attacks against Pakistain using the territory of Afghanistan".
Pakistain reiterated its serious concerns over the presence of terror outfits inside Afghanistan that continue to threaten Pakistain's security. "Such incidents also go against the spirit of bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries," it read.
The FO spokesperson added that the "Bannu Cantonment attack is yet another reminder of the serious threat posed by terrorism to regional peace and security".
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[Regnum] New geopolitical experiments of the West are aggravating the situation in the Middle East and North Africa, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on July 17, speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
According to him, the mandatory-colonial past of the Middle East and North Africa remains a difficult legacy for the countries of the region.
"The Sykes-Picot agreements, the Balfour Declaration and the so-called White Paper laid time bombs that continue to explode to this day. The situation is aggravated by the West's new geopolitical experiments," he said.
Lavrov emphasized that the countries of the region must themselves, without outside interference, determine their path to strengthening sovereignty and independence, socio-economic development for the benefit of their people. This, according to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, will allow liberating the historical, civilizational, religious, cultural significance of the Middle East and North Africa in the interests of peace and stability.
Earlier it was reported that three activists tried to interrupt Sergey Lavrov's speech at the UN Security Council meeting. As soon as the Russian minister began speaking, women stood up from their seats and started shouting: "Release the hostages." UN security quickly responded and escorted the violators out of the hall. It is noted that they failed to interrupt Lavrov's speech, he continued speaking.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in New York on the night of July 16 to participate in the UN Security Council meetings as part of the Russian presidency. The agenda is scheduled for two days of work - from July 16 to 17.
[IsraelTimes] The Knesset early Thursday voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The resolution was co-sponsored by parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition together with right-wing parties from the opposition and even received support from Benny Gantz’s centrist National Unity party.
Lawmakers from Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s center-left Yesh Atid party left the plenum to avoid backing the measure, even though he has spoken in favor of a two-state solution. The only ones to oppose the resolution were lawmakers from the Labor, Ra’am and Hadash-Ta’al parties.
Treason party (in Hebrew Labor = Avoda rhymes with Bgida = treason) and the Arabs
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[GEO.TV] Hezbollah will hit new targets in Israel if it keeps killing civilians in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the group's leader MSayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> said on Wednesday, noting a spike in the number of non-combatants killed in Lebanon in recent days.
Five civilians, all Syrians and including three children, were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday and at least three Lebanese non-combatants were killed the day before, according to state media and security sources.
"Continuing to target civilians will push the Resistance® to launch missiles at settlements that were not previously targeted," Nasrallah said, in comments made during a televised address to mark the holy day of Ashura. "Civilians"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...Arabic for 
...Arabic term meaning 
