The Sudan massacre no one’s talking about

A genocide may be unfolding in Sudan, and the world is barely paying attention.

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00:00A young man in uniform looks into his camera. He's smiling. Behind him, bodies, dead bodies,

00:11lie across a dirt road, men, women, even children. A beautiful backward country, Northeast Africa.

00:17Sudan is now being torn apart by two men who were once brothers in arms.

00:21There is a whole UAE angle to this as well and gold, the angle of gold.

00:30In April 2023, Sudan's army and a powerful paramilitary force called the Rapid Support

00:38Forces or RSF went to war with each other. Imagine two generals who once shared tea after prayers,

00:45suddenly turning their guns on one another. That's what happened when General Burhan,

00:49head of the army and General Himetti, head of the RSF, disagreed over who should rule and who

00:54should surrender power to civilians. They both said they were fighting for Sudan's democracy,

00:58but they were fighting for their thrones, for gold, for power, for pride.

01:02And when proud men fight, it's the poor who pay.

01:10Since that day, Sudan has fallen into darkness. Over a lakh and 50,000 people have died. 12 million

01:15people have fled their homes. Famine is spreading. Hospitals have been bombed. And in the western

01:20region of Darfur, where old ruins never healed, there are now reports of genocide again. To understand

01:25why you need to go back 20 years. In 2003, Darfur's non-Arab communities,

01:30mainly the Fur, Masalit and Zagawa, rebelled against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum,

01:35accusing it of discrimination and neglect. The government responded by arming local Arab militias

01:40known as the Janjaveed. They carried out scorched earth attacks, burning villages,

01:45killing civilians and targeting people simply for being from black African tribes.

01:49Those same Janjaveed fighters would later evolve into today's rapid support forces. But wars don't

01:59burn this long without someone pouring oil into them. And many fingers right now are pointing towards

02:04the United Arab Emirates. You see, Himetti's RSF controls Sudan's rich gold mines. That gold,

02:11according to UN investigators, is smuggled out through Chad and flown to Dubai, feeding the

02:15UAE's billion-dollar gold trade. In return, Sudan's army says, the Emirates have quietly supplied the

02:22RSF with drones, weapons and fuel, all routed through bases in eastern Libya. The UAE denies it,

02:28of course, but satellite imagery intercepted shipments and UN reports tell another story.

02:33One of a Gulf bar backing a warlord who protects its gold pipeline and expands its influence along the

02:38Red Sea. So, while Sudan bleeds, someone else is counting profits. What is your reading of the

02:43situation there? Do you even care? Tell us in the comments. I'm Manish Abikali. Thank you for

02:47watching for StatesFast.