For years, Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians, now the RSF is doing the same.

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    20 hours ago

    It’s cutting both ways, Israel is using Sudan for whataboutism. Saw this bill board on the 101 the other day

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        15 hours ago

        It is horribly under covered by mainstream press and does have atrocities equivalent to the war on gaza. The Sudanese military has kicked the rapid support forces (rsf) out of most of the east and capital region, but the rsf holds a lot of the west / darfur region except for the city of al fasher which is currently under siege and probably has conditions comparable to Gaza in terms of lack of food and water coming in.

        The reason no one is out protesting or trying to raise awareness is because we (the west) can’t do anything about it. We aren’t supporting either side and shouldn’t be, the RSF is worse but the Sudanese military has no shortage of war crimes. So we have no leverage to try and get a ceasefire, whereas in Israel we continue to send them billions in military aid to continue a genocidal war. We could tell them to take peace talks seriously or we cut off aid any day now but refuse to because trump wants a new beach resort.