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| Sudan Commander Says 'We didn't Loot... We Didn't Rape' |
| 2014-05-15 |
| [An Nahar] Leaders of a Sudanese counter-insurgency unit on Wednesday dismissed accusations that their men committed abuses in Darfur. "We didn't loot. We didn't burn any villages. We didn't rape," General Abbas Abdelaziz, who heads the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), told news hounds. "All the allegations against us are lies," an angry Mohammed Hamdan Dalgo, the unit's field commander, shouted. They held the presser a day after newspapers reported that Sudan's powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) has filed a criminal complaint against former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, who heads a major opposition party, Umma. Newspapers said NISS accused Mahdi of releasing false information about the RSF to news hounds last week. NISS, which has authority over the RSF, accused Mahdi of offences, including threatening public peace. He reportedly accused the unit of arson and other violence against civilians, and of including "non-Sudanese" in its ranks. The RSF role has also come under scrutiny by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and UNAMID, the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... peacekeeping mission in Darfur. UNAMID chief Mohammed Ibn Chambas told the U.N. Security Council more than a month ago that the activities of the RSF were of "particular concern" as violence rose to alarming levels in Darfur this year. "They have perpetrated attacks on communities," Chambas said. European Union ambassador Tomas Ulicny told Agence La Belle France Presse last month that "we should be concerned" about the role of the RSF. |
| Posted by:Fred |