"The move comes three weeks after the Rapid Support Forces, known as the RSF, took over the Sudanese military's last major outpost in North Darfur, the capital city of el-Fasher. The paramilitary group swept through the city searching for civilians to kill, conducting field executions and invading a hospital, killing everyone inside. UN officials estimate that 2,000 people were killed, though other estimates have been far higher, with Darfur's governor Minni Arko Minnawi saying that 27,000 people were killed in three days following the siege."
"Pools of blood and piles of bodies were so vast that they could be seen from space, researchers found. RSF forces then moved to dig mass graves to dump the bodies in, Yale University experts said, based on satellite imagery. "They turned the city into a killing field, going house to house rounding up people to torture and murder because of their ethnicity," said Van Hollen in remarks on the Senate floor."
Sen. Joni Ernst blocked a unanimous-consent effort to pass the Stand Up for Sudan Act, which would bar U.S. weapons sales or licenses involving the UAE until the White House certifies the UAE is not providing materiel support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The RSF seized el-Fasher in North Darfur and carried out house-to-house killings, field executions, and an attack on a hospital. UN officials estimate roughly 2,000 killed while some local figures report far higher totals. Satellite imagery shows extensive blood pools, piles of bodies, and mass graves. The U.S. has supplied the UAE with billions of dollars in weapons.
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