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The Scandalous Video: Colombian Mercenaries’ Voices and Emirati Weapons—The Latest Evidence

By : Magdi Abdelazeez

▪️Following professional translation and analysis of what the Colombians say in the widely circulated video, it has become undeniably clear that the footage documents a live military training on the use of RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), conducted on Sudanese soil. The trainees are new mercenaries being prepared in areas controlled by the Janjaweed militia.

▪️This footage offers new and alarming evidence that the Janjaweed militia continues to rely on foreign mercenaries—Colombians, in this case—in its war against the Sudanese state, with direct support from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The precise military language used, the nature of the field instructions, and specific references to the weaponry and environment all confirm that these are not amateurs. They are paid fighters brought in to carry out clear combat missions.

▪️It is important here to highlight the action taken by the Colombian government. The Colombian Ambassador in Cairo paid an official visit to Sudan’s Ambassador to Egypt, His Excellency General Imad Adawi, during which she presented an official apology on behalf of the Colombian government for the involvement of some of its nationals as mercenaries in the ongoing war in Sudan. She affirmed that such activities are happening outside the will and knowledge of the Colombian state, and that Colombia does not condone or support any such involvement.

▪️However, the primary responsibility does not rest with the mercenaries alone. The true source of funding, recruitment, and supply is the United Arab Emirates. The UAE continues to provide weapons, fighters, and money to the Janjaweed militia in a hateful war that is tearing Sudan apart and threatening its very existence. What this militia is committing—rape, infrastructure destruction, targeted ethnic violence, genocide, and crimes against humanity—are crimes that violate international law and are condemned by every moral and legal code on earth.

▪️Even more dangerously, the UAE—while claiming in diplomatic forums to be a “peace mediator” in Sudan—is, in reality, stabbing the Sudanese people in the back. Its motives are driven purely by greed for a country superior to it in every aspect:
• In territory,
• In civilization,
• In agricultural, animal, and mineral wealth,
• In geopolitical significance linking Africa to the Middle East,
• And in its strategic coastline along the Red Sea—waters that make the UAE salivate in pursuit of its own ambitions and those of its ally, Israel.

▪️This behavior by the UAE is no longer just a regional issue—it has become a direct threat to international peace and security. It is a blatant mockery of all international conventions and treaties, from the UN Charter to the African Union Charter.

▪️But the world is finally beginning to awaken.
UN Security Council experts have documented, with evidence, the UAE’s military support to the Janjaweed militia.
The African Union has clarified its stance, affirming its recognition of Sudan’s legitimate authority represented by the Sovereignty Council, led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the newly formed civilian government under Dr. Kamil Al-Tayeb Idris

▪️But that is not enough.
There is now an unequivocal demand for respectable nations around the world to break their silence and take a firm stand against this aggression. They must:
• Designate the UAE-backed Janjaweed militia and its political allies as terrorist organizations,
• Hold accountable the countries that fund, arm, and direct the destruction in Sudan,
• Send a strong message that the world will not tolerate the emergence of new models of “international mercenaries” in continents ravaged by war.

▪️Otherwise, silence is complicity, and neutrality is betrayal.
Any political cover granted to the UAE is nothing less than an open invitation to chaos, extremism, and malicious interference in the affairs of sovereign states.

▪️Sudan, though wounded, still stands tall…
But it must not be left alone.
This aggression is not just an attack on Sudan—it is a harbinger of what may come to others, if treachery is allowed to win.

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