Rubio Calls for International Intervention To Stop Arming Sudan’s RSF Amid Genocide Allegations

Marco Rubio has cited systemic crimes and demanded immediate international action to cut off weapons to Sudan’s RSF.

While condemning the paramilitary force of carrying out “horrifying atrocities” in the besieged city of el-Fasher, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged for coordinated international action to stop the flow of arms to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

At the end of a G7 foreign ministers’ conference in Canada, Rubio denounced the RSF for what he called “systemic attacks on civilians, including mass rape, murder, and targeted violence against women and children.” His comments are among the most forceful criticisms of the Sudan war leveled by the Trump administration to yet.

Since a bloody power struggle between the generals in April 2023 turned into a catastrophic civil war, the RSF has been fighting Sudan’s army. With the RSF’s capture of el-Fasher last month, following an 18-month siege, the group now controls all of Darfur’s major cities. Satellite photos confirm the widespread accounts of atrocities by showing blood-soaked ground and dead strewn across streets.

US officials and humanitarian organizations claim that non-Arab groups in Darfur are being deliberately targeted in what amounts to genocide.

In an attempt to cut off the RSF’s supply lines, Rubio called for allies to join Washington.

According to Rubio, they are perpetrating sexual abuse and crimes against women, children, and innocent citizens of the most heinous nature. Additionally, it must terminate right away. We have urged our partner countries to join us in this battle, and we will stop at nothing to end it.

The RSF and the UAE both refute the Sudanese army’s allegations that the UAE has been providing the RSF with mercenaries and weapons transported through African nations. While pointing out that the US is collaborating with the UAE, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia under the “Quad” group to put an end to the war, Rubio refrained from outright criticizing Abu Dhabi.

“I don’t want to criticize anyone today,” he declared. “The parties involved in the supply of weapons are known to us.” For this reason, they are included in the Quad along with other participating nations.

A humanitarian truce that the RSF only agreed to last week has been broken, and previous ceasefire agreements supported by the US have consistently failed. The war in Sudan is still going on and shows no signs of stopping, even with the Quad’s new plan for a transition to civilian administration.

Few people have been able to escape as the fighting intensifies, leaving hundreds of thousands stranded in the midst of growing violence and a quickly increasing humanitarian crisis.