Tom Shacklock
@ShacklockTom
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Research conflict/minority rights @CranePrevention | formerly @genocide_watch | Byline @openDemocracy @BrusselsTimes. Views = my own. RT ≠ endorsement
London, United Kingdom
Joined February 2020
As the #DRC catches global attention due to #M23, its other crises continue to be overlooked, including attacks on the #Banyamulenge. My blog series from June unpacks narratives on this complex crisis that overlook/downplay the Banyamulenge perspective. https://t.co/GAabjhgjBU
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When the RSF says its ready to accept and implement a humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan, watch what it does, not what it says.
Kornoi, Tine and Um Baru areas in North Darfur have experienced a sharp rise in drone attacks in recent days, causing many people to flee to Chad. In a horrifying attack a drone struck Kornoi Hospital on 3 November, killing and injuring several patients, including children and
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Centrafrique: le consultant belgo-portugais Joseph Figueira condamné à 10 ans de travaux forcés https://t.co/nOVAgES9Je
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Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray
theconversation.com
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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"I was horrified. I wanted to throw up. Unfortunately, I wasn't surprised," @nattyray11 of @HRL_YaleSPH tells @biannagolodryga about seeing satellite images of El Fasher. "We've been briefing the international community since July 2023 that this was going to happen."
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'Sudan’s war is described as forgotten, but in reality it is tolerated and relegated. Because to reckon with the horror in Sudan is to look into the abyss of regional and global politics.' This week's column https://t.co/mt2D9FIwEw
theguardian.com
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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“The discovery of Canadian armoured vehicles in the hands of the RSF in El Fasher, only months before the latest massacre, should raise alarm bells for this government and prompt immediate action.” https://t.co/F0cv9jHDqD
#KeepEyesonSudan @AnitaAnandMP #cdnpoli
theglobeandmail.com
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have reportedly killed thousands of civilians in the Darfur city of El Fasher
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🚨ATROCITY ALERT 🚨 1) Most remaining civilians have not fled El Fasher - likely trapped or dead 2) RSF continues mass killings 3) Displaced people visible in Garni, location of reported gross human rights abuses. #KeepEyesOnSudan 🛰️@vantortech @AirbusDS
https://t.co/1HApllgfVx
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It breaks my heart to think of all the incredible people from El Fasher -humanitarians, teachers, local leaders, health workers- who have been gruesomely murdered in a matter of days. A generation of selfless care givers wiped out. Honor them by protecting those still alive.
Local sources in North Darfur reported the killing of former Sudanese parliamentarian and civil activist Siham Hassan Hasaballah in El Fasher, following an attack targeting her while she was carrying out humanitarian work at charity kitchens and service centers. The assault has
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More than 4,500 people have fled Sudan’s North Kordofan state as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalate their violent attacks against civilians there and in North Darfur’s el-Fasher, says a Sudanese medical organisation. 🔗: https://t.co/KsfV660lij
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How the RSF destroyed El-Fasher’s economy and starved its people. A good look at the economic effects of the siege of the city over the last 18 months.
newarab.com
The RSF’s long siege and bloody capture of El-Fasher has completely destroyed western Sudan’s once thriving hub of agriculture and trade
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I have had a chill in my bones since Sunday. What is happening in Al Fashir is making my blood run cold - the more we dig, the colder it feels. God have mercy.
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Survivors recount the RSF's slaughter in el-Fasher. One aid official described the scenes to me as "killing fields" and said the mass killing echoes what he witnessed 30 years ago in Rwanada. My story for @AJEnglish
https://t.co/CdPT8Th8BJ
aljazeera.com
Thousands of civilians remain trapped in Sudan's el-Fasher, many of them hiding from RSF fighters.
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"The passage to Tawila is stalked by RSF fighters and allied militias, who run trafficking networks there, and who loot, abduct, and kill those who don’t pay. Families split up and try different routes to maximise the chance that somebody will survive."🤯
thenewhumanitarian.org
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
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"Both the Biden and Trump administrations have described the killings in Sudan as a genocide, yet neither tried forcefully to stop it in public" by pressuring the United Arab Emirates to stop arming the Rapid Support Forces that are carrying it out. https://t.co/7GVdpMIWql
nytimes.com
Reports are emerging of atrocities in Darfur. The Trump and Biden administrations could have tried harder to prevent them.
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So SAF is able to strike deals with the RSF, yet the only deal they struck was safe exit for *themselves*? Such valour. There have always been signs of collusion between SAF and RSF, but this is beyond the pale. I reiterate: this is a war on #Sudan's civilians. #KeepEyesOnSudan
Army soldiers fled Al Fashir in the hours before their garrison fell to the RSF. Insiders told us SAF struck a deal for safe passage, leaving around 200,000 civilians behind. This follows a pattern of abrupt SAF withdrawals from key cities in Darfur. https://t.co/PEkxHiT21b
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The Rapid Support Forces militia reportedly killed hundreds of civilians at the main hospital in el-Fasher, days after it captured the Sudanese city. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the UN health agency was "appalled and deeply shocked" by the killings. https://t.co/A5HHk9PIyo
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Ethnic cleansing is underway in El Fasher as the RSF takes over. I spoke today with Sudanese civil society leaders about what they are seeing and hearing. It is grimly horrifying - exactly as long feared and predicted. Reminder (again) that the #UAE shares in these crimes. 🧵
What is about to unfold in Al Fashir is a historic calamity and massacre that was allowed to happen in plain sight.
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Exclusive: How UAE Arms Bolstered a Sudanese Militia Accused of Genocide Internal US documents detail UAE arming RSF militia in Sudan, though US hasnt formally called out UAE in public RSF accused of genocide Reporting from @jmalsin @benoitfaucon & me https://t.co/kGoq1mJFmm
wsj.com
Reports by U.S. intelligence agencies show an increase in the flow of materiel from the U.A.E. to the rebel Rapid Support Forces since the spring, according to U.S. officials.
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“Two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group”
theguardian.com
Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group
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Any country still selling arms to UAE should understand what they enabling. New report finds that UK-built military supplies, sold to UAE, have turned up in Sudan. Being used by RSF, who are carrying out genocidal massacres in real time in El Fasher. https://t.co/axGIgqkgVO
theguardian.com
Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group
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