A Real Genocide in Sudan While the media was focused on a fake genocide. by Hugh Fitzgerald
https://www.frontpagemag.com/a-real-genocide-in-sudan/
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has now announced that a “genocide” has been going on in Sudan. He blames not the regular Sudanese army, but the rebels fighting that army — the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The media have been paying far too little attention to Sudan, where a real famine affecting close to 25 million people is now in progress. Twelve million people have been displaced in the country since 2023. As many as 150,000 people have been killed in the same period. But the international media haven’t wanted to pay attention to the real miseries in Sudan; they are determined, rather, to concentrate on the exaggerated miseries of life in Gaza, which we keep being told is “on the brink of famine,” but never quite goes over that brink. Charges including “genocide” and “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” are bruited about whenever Israel is mentioned. But in Sudan, there is no way to blame Israel, so the media keep the focus on Gaza — the gift that keeps on giving to the legions of Israel-haters.
However, Blinken’s description of a “genocide” in the Sudan — a real genocide, not the nonexistent one that UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and Pope Francis all want to blame Israel for committing in Gaza — has brought about a sudden renewal of interest in the Sudan. One hopes, and expects, that more attention will be given to that continuing conflict and that “real genocide” in the Sudan, about which much of the media has been withholding essential information. For what has not been clearly stated is this: it’s a “genocide” committed by well-armed Arabs belonging to the RSF, who are engaged in murdering defenseless black Africans.
Another genocide was committed in the Darfur region of the western Sudan between 2003 and 2008. It involved Muslim Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed, who engaged in the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people — that is, the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, all of whom were non-Arab and much darker-skinned than the Arabs. At least 400,000 people were killed, many tortured before being killed. Hundreds of thousands of girls and women, as young as eight years old, were raped, while there was forcible displacement of millions of the black Africans in Darfur.
Now the American government says there is renewed ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity being committed against ethnic Massalit and non-Arab communities by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its Arab allies.
Even the BBC, so determinedly a defender of the Arabs who commit atrocities against Israeli Jews, managed to carry last May an item about a Human Rights Watch report on what has been going on in the Sudan, and dared to mention that Arabs of the RSF have been killing black Africans. More on that report can be found here. That report states: “The UN says about 15,000 people are feared to have been killed in El Geneina last year.” That is just the number of casualties in one village. Ten times that number of civilians have now been killed throughout Darfur, almost all of them black Africans killed by Arabs.
Another report, on a massacre at the village of Kutum, can be found here.
As of January 2025, there are now at least 150,000 civilians dead, and 12 million displaced Sudanese — almost all of them black Africans.
The US and the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court have talked about war crimes in Darfur, but until now, with Secretary Blinken’s announcement, they had not specifically mentioned genocide.
There is, in those two reports, solid evidence, from many different sources, of the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Sudan, committed by Arabs who shout over the corpses of black Africans “Victory to the Arabs,” call the blacks “slaves,” and kill them at will. They torture some of them, like the five Suleiman brothers, just for the fun of it, before murdering them. They rape the women, and girls as young as eight years old. One man described how, after raping his wife, they taunted her: “Now we are your husband, your people have all have been killed. You can be the servants of our wives and clean our houses.” They say to the blacks that “your land will become the land of the Arabs.”
More on Blinken’s statement on the situation in the Sudan can be found here: “Biden administration says Sudan’s rebel forces committing genocide, sanctions leader,” bJanuary 7, 2025:
The Biden administration said Tuesday it has determined that Sudan’s paramilitary group and its proxies are committing genocide in the country’s civil war and that it has imposed sanctions on the group’s leader and affiliated companies.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that the conflict, which is considered the world’s biggest current humanitarian catastrophe, had escalated beyond the war crimes and ethnic cleansing determination he had made in December 2023.
Blinken said, based on more recent reporting, he found that the Rapid Support Forces group is committing genocide. His statement was accompanied by a Treasury Department announcement that RSF leader Mohammad Hamdan Daglo Mousa, also known as Hemedti, had been targeted for sanctions, as well as seven RSF-owned companies located in the United Arab Emirates.
“The RSF and RSF-aligned militias have continued to direct attacks against civilians,” Blinken said. “The RSF and allied militias have systematically murdered men and boys — even infants — on an ethnic basis, and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence.”
Blinken referred to “certain ethnic groups.” Nowhere does he say that it is the Arabs of the Rapid Support Services who are killing the black Africans of the Fur, Massalit, and Zarghawa tribes, while sparing other Arabs.
It’s time to follow up Blinken’s remarks about the Sudan — we can wait until after January 20, when the new American ambassador to the UN, Elise Stefanik, will be able to raise this issue at the General Assembly, asking for a resolution denouncing the “genocide in Sudan where the Arab forces of the Rapid Support Forces have been killing, torturing, and raping the black African members of the Fur, Massalit, and Zarghawa tribes,” and bringing the issue up as well at the next meeting of the Security Council, which, unlike the General Assembly, can actually do something to stop these atrocities, including sending UN peacekeeping forces to protect those being mass-murdered. It could be American diplomacy’s finest hour.
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