‘Naked Cruelty’ in Sudan: UN Condemns Global Pretence and Inaction

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The UN Human Rights Council held a special session on Sudan’s Darfur region, highlighting mass killings, sexual violence, abductions, and attacks on civilians after the fall of al-Fashir to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. UN High Commissioner Volker Turk slammed the international community for “too much pretence, too little action” and called for accountability for those fueling and profiting from the conflict. He also warned of surging violence in Kordofan, urging immediate humanitarian aid and intervention.
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00:00I got a good drink.

00:03When I come back, I'm a big drink.

00:06No, I don't know.

00:07No.

00:20No, no, no, no.

00:23Long live.

00:24Excellences, distinguished colleagues, Monsieur le Commissaire, la 38e session extraordinaire

00:49du Conseil des droits de l'Homme est maintenant ouverte.

00:51The atrocities that are unfolding in Al-Fasher were foreseen and preventable, but they were

01:03not prevented.

01:06They constitute the gravest of crimes.

01:08On behalf of the Special Counsel of the United Nations for the Prevention of Genocide.

01:13There have been mass killings of civilians, ethnically targeted executions, sexual violence

01:20including gang rape, abductions for ransom, widespread arbitrary detentions, attacks on

01:27health facilities, medical staff and humanitarian workers, and other appalling atrocities.

01:34This is a pattern that we have documented time and again in this conflict.

01:41But our wake-up calls were not heated.

01:44Blood stains on the ground in Al-Fasher have been photographed from space.

01:50The stain on the record of the international community is less visible, but no less damaging.

01:57Thank you for your statement.

01:59I now give the floor to Mr. Surya.

02:01The international community has a clear duty to act.

02:05There has been too much pretense and performance and too little action.

02:10It must stand up against these atrocities, a display of naked cruelty used to subjugate and

02:18control an entire population.

02:21It must take action to prevent continued large-scale human rights violations, often ethnically motivated

02:27in Darfur and beyond.

02:29And it must ensure that civilians from Al-Fasher and the surrounding areas have access to humanitarian

02:34aid and the protection they so desperately need.

02:38The international community needs to take action against the individuals and companies that

02:48are fueling and profiting from this war.

02:52Sudan is caught up in a proxy battle for its natural resources and commodities.

02:58Numerous countries in the region and beyond are involved.

03:03Much of Al-Fasher now is a crime scene.

03:07I must issue another stark warning about surging violence in Kordofan.

03:13All the signs are there – bombardments, blockades, people forced from their homes, a despicable

03:21disregard for civilian lives.

03:24Kordofan must not suffer the same fate as Darfur.

03:29International law must not be shredded before our eyes, and the suffering of the Sudanese people

03:34must end.

03:35Thank you for your statement.

03:43Thank you for your statement.

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