Warlord Promises Investigation, World Shocked By Shocking Lack of Shock
The BBC reports that Sudan's RSF chief, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (aka 'Hemedti'), has vowed to investigate the killings in el-Fasher, including patients at a hospital. This, from the leader of a paramilitary group widely accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, including in Darfur's harrowing history. It's almost as if orchestrating violence then promising to 'look into it' is a
well-worn playbook for dodging accountability globally. One might wonder if the international community will wait for this self-investigation to conclude before noticing that the RSF emerged from the very Janjaweed militias who terrorized Darfur in the early 2000s—a detail often glossed over in current reporting. How many internal 'investigations' does it take before we acknowledge the
perpetrators are also the judges?