Sudan's RSF 'Arrests' Abusers While UN Notes 'Continuing Horror'
The RSF, which emerged from the notorious Janjaweed militias, claims to be policing its own after taking El-Fasher, the last army stronghold in Darfur. One might almost believe this if the history wasn't so glaringly obvious: these are the same forces implicated in mass atrocities in 2003-2004, and now, 20 years later, they’re 'investigating themselves' for the same playbook. The international
silence, meanwhile, is deafening, perhaps waiting for the 'horrors' to become too inconvenient to ignore. While mainstream outlets dutifully report the RSF's PR spin, they gloss over the cycle of violence and impunity, failing to connect today's abuses to historical patterns of ethnic cleansing. It's almost as if some horrors are more newsworthy than others, particularly when no major geopolitical
chess moves by the usual suspects are directly at stake. How many times must a group commit alleged atrocities before their 'internal investigations' are seen for the cynical charade they are?