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The human rights organization publishes an investigation into the acquisition of military equipment by the parties to the conflict. The United Arab Emirates appears to be one of the suppliers of weapons to General Hemetti’s Rapid Support Forces.
The civil war in Sudan is entering its seventeenth month and no one is able to keep count of the number of victims. “We have absolutely no idea how many people have died, acknowledged in May the American special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello. The order of magnitude varies from 1 to 10. The previously mentioned toll was 15,000 to 30,000 dead. Some think the figure is 150,000.” This unknown contributes to making invisible this conflict which has seen the Sudanese army, commanded by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, and the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, alias Hemetti, clash since April 15, 2023. The two camps “have committed a horrific series of human rights violations and international crimes, many of which can be characterized as war crimes and crimes against humanity,” pointed out a report from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday.
In an investigation published on Monday, September 9, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) looked at the weapons used by the belligerents to sow death. In particular, those imported
