Beyond Short-Term Truces: Sudan Demands Accountability for the Genocidal Militia (1)
By; Mubarak Mahgoub Musa
Sudan’s refusal of the Quartet’s short-term truce should not be interpreted as escalation, but rather as a legally justified stance under international norms that permit states to defend themselves and repel external aggression.
Like many African countries, Sudan faces an external scheme targeting its people and natural resources, in which the RSF militia, operates as central actor, armed with lethal weaponry and mercenaries provided by the UAE. Defending the homeland and the Sudanese people is therefore a constitutional duty of the Sudanese Armed Forces.
Contrary to deliberate misinformation, the RSF evolved from a force previously under army command and mutinied on 14 April 2025, becoming an unlawful armed actor treated under national and international law.
The Sudanese government does not reject nor boycott negotiations — it actively participated in talks in Washington, represented by its Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The biggest flaw in what the Quartet promotes, besides insisting on presenting the UAE as a mediator in a war that it fueled and continues to stoke, is its unobjective persistence to ignore the elephant in the room: Its desperate attempt to turn back the clock, in complete disregard for the blood of tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians, who fell to the bullets, starvation and torture inflicted by this genocidal militia.
The fact remains, the horrific and unprecedented atrocities – both in size and scale- ranging from genocide to ethnic cleansing and other atrocities, are of such magnitude that render the militia completely unfit to play any role in Sudan’s political future. Period.
Correspondingly, the government of Sudan firmly rejects any attempt to instrument truces, to whitewash the blood- stained hands of the militia and its regional sponsor, or to retain it and its political allies, a seat in Sudan’s post-war political landscape, against the very will of the overwhelming majority of the Sudanese people.
Ironically, this occurs at a time when the free world is loudly calling for the notorious militia, to be classified as a terrorist organization. Such maneuvers, in effect, aim to grant the militia politically, what it has failed to achieve militarily.
In retrospect, the international community stood by, for nearly six hundred days, watching the militia flouting international humanitarian law, openly rejecting the UN Secretary-General’s appeal for a mere seven-day truce to allow humanitarian aid to reach innocent civilians besieged in El Fasher — a truce the Sudanese government immediately accepted.
The international community continued its graveyard silence, whilst the militia defies an international resolution, requiring the immediate lifting of the siege, effectively giving a green light for systematic violations, including deliberate starvation and indiscriminate shelling, one of which killed 75 civilians beneath the rubble of a mosque during dawn prayer.
These violations culminated in the storming of the city and the perpetration of new acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, documented by satellite imagery and the militia’s own cameras in a brazen display of racism, arrogance, and contempt.
