UAE Violates Sudan Arms Embargo, Must Face International Accountability
International ‘Genocide Watch’ Confirms UAE Violates Arms Embargo on Sudan, Calls for International Accountability for Its Involvement in War Crimes Against Civilians.
The organization reports that the UAE supplies military support to the rebel Rapid Support Forces in Sudan via the ‘Um Jers’ region along the Sudan-Chad border.
The organization reported a substantial rise in cargo flights from Abu Dhabi International Airport to Um Jers Airport in eastern Chad since June 2023.
The organization indicated that while these flights sometimes deliver medical supplies to a UAE-run hospital in Chad, most of them are used to transport weapons and ammunition for the Rapid Support Forces.
It highlighted that the UAE provides the Rapid Support Forces militias with fuel from southern Libya and has financed their procurement of weapons and vehicles, including Land Cruisers from Libya, which are crucial for their military attacks. .
The organization disclosed that the Rapid Support Forces militias acquired weapons and ammunition via the Central African Republic in operations orchestrated and carried out by their leader, Abdullah al-Jazouli, with financial and logistical backing from the UAE.
The international organization affirmed that the UAE is violating the United Nations arms embargo imposed on Darfur in 2005, which remains in effect to this day.
It stressed that the UAE and other regional nations must urgently halt their military support for the Rapid Support Forces and refrain from participating in war crimes against Sudanese civilians.
A recent U.S. investigation confirmed that the UAE is using aid as a cover to fuel the civil war in Sudan, with weapons and drones being smuggled under the banner of the Emirati Red Crescent.
The investigation published by The New York Times reported that Emirati drones are operating over the expansive deserts along the Sudanese border, guiding weapon convoys that smuggle illegal arms to fighters implicated in extensive atrocities and ethnic cleansing.
The newspaper reported that the drones are flying over a besieged city at the epicenter of Sudan’s devastating famine, backing a brutal paramilitary force responsible for bombing hospitals, looting food supplies, and setting fire to thousands of homes, according to relief organizations.
Nevertheless, the drones are launched from a base that the UAE asserts is part of a humanitarian initiative for the Sudanese people—characterized as an “urgent priority” to save innocent lives and avert famine in the largest conflict in Africa.
