#rsf

𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘏𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯, 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪’𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘭-𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳, 𝘚𝘶𝘥𝘢𝘯.

60.000 SIXTY THOUSAND. That's the latest estimation of the number of people who were slaughtered in El Fasher by the RSF these past weeks. The people of Sudan are suffering from genocide and the world is letting it happen.

There's no "probably" about it, Anon.

[This is as simple and short as I can make it...and it's still neither simple nor short]

Since April 2023, Sudan has been tearing itself apart in a brutal civil war. This is a violent power struggle between two generals who literally ran the country together after staging a coup in 2021.

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) is the official national army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a heavily armed paramilitary group led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Musa, better known as "Hemedti," who previously commanded the notorious Janjaweed militias.

They were supposed to merge their forces and transition Sudan to civilian rule. Instead, they couldn't agree on terms and the country exploded into war. The capital, Khartoum, has been devastated, but the worst violence is happening (again) in Darfur.

Regarding the difference in scale:

Gaza has seen roughly 2 million people displaced within its borders, which is horrible.

Sudan has over 12 million people forced from their homes, six times as many. It's the largest displacement crisis in the entire world right now, and it's not even close.

Hamas estimates the death toll in Gaza at about 70,000 people.

Death toll estimates in Sudan range from 150,000 to over 520,000 when you include conflict-related starvation and disease.

In Darfur specifically, the RSF and allied militias are carrying out systematic ethnic cleansing against non-Arab groups. This includes mass executions, widespread rape as a weapon of war, and entire villages burned to ash. Multiple famine zones have been confirmed because both sides are deliberately blocking aid and destroying food supplies as a military strategy.

Genocide scholars and human rights organizations are explicitly warning this is a repeat of the 2003 Darfur genocide, and it's happening now.

That's the difference in scale, but the contrast in the world's response is similarly jarring.

The Israel/Hamas conflict has dominated Western news cycles, generated massive street protests across Europe and North America, and created intense political pressure on governments. It's a central topic in elections, congressional hearings, and UN sessions.

Sudan, however, barely registers at all.

Major news outlets run occasional stories, but there are no sustained headlines, no viral social media campaigns, no campus protests, and virtually no political consequences for ignoring it. Western governments have provided minimal humanitarian funding and zero meaningful diplomatic pressure on either side to stop the atrocities.

Why the massive disparity?

Geopolitics: Gaza directly involves Israel, a key US ally, making it central to Western foreign policy. Sudan has no such strategic importance to powerful nations.

Media access and narrative: Sudan is extraordinarily difficult to report from, with both armies actively restricting or targeting media. Israel has a free press and Hamas had/has a massive propoganda operation pretending to be journalism to generate a narrative.

Activism and visibility: Organized diaspora communities and established advocacy networks amplify Gaza constantly. Sudan lacks that infrastructure in the West, so it generates almost no public pressure on governments.

Judenhass: Jews are not involved in the Sudan crisis.

This silence on Sudan isn't an accident. It's a choice.

The world has decided through its attention, its resources, and its outrage, that some mass atrocities matter more than others, and that's not determined by scale.

Right now, it seems Sudanese lives aren't making the cut. These lives don't matter to the West's far left, because it was never atrocity which motivated them about Gaza.

The Gold Angle:

You might have read that this war in Sudan is about gold, and that's definitely part of it.

Sudan has significant gold reserves, particularly in Darfur and other regions the RSF controls or is fighting over. The RSF has been heavily involved in gold mining for years, and it's one of their primary revenue sources. Hemedti himself built much of his wealth and power through control of gold mining operations.

There's credible reporting that the RSF has been smuggling gold (estimated in the billions of dollars worth) to fund their war effort, with much of it going through the UAE. This isn't just about controlling territory, it's also about controlling the resources that fund the militias and enrich the commanders.

But it's not just about gold.

Who backs each side?

This war isn't happening in a vacuum. Regional powers are actively fueling it with weapons, money, and diplomatic cover.

The RSF (Hemedti's paramilitary):

The UAE has deep ties to Hemedti built on gold and regional influence. There's extensive documentation of the UAE providing weapons, diplomatic support, and facilitating gold smuggling that funds the RSF war machine. It appears to be transparently transactional. The UAE gets access to resources, and Hemedti gets money and arms to keep fighting.

The SAF (the official army):

Egypt sees the RSF as a threat to its southern border and has provided weapons and diplomatic support to the SAF. Egypt wants a stable, friendly government in Khartoum, particularly regarding Nile water issues.

Iran has reportedly supplied drones to the SAF, seeing an opportunity to expand influence where its rivals (the UAE and Saudi Arabia) are active.

Why does this matter?

These foreign backers are prolonging the war.

Neither side can win decisively and both have enough external support to keep fighting indefinitely. The UAE and Egypt seem to have turned this into a proxy conflict where Sudanese civilians pay the price.

None of these powers face meaningful consequences from Western governments for fueling the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

The UAE remains a major Western ally despite credible evidence it's arming forces committing ethnic cleansing. That's part of why the international response has been so toothless.

And the "Free Palestine" folks, while claiming to be motivated by humanitarian concerns, have absolutely no fucks to give. This tells us a great deal about what actually drives them.

It is only 5k! and they're half way there but haven't gotten any new donations in 4 days! So please Donate & share, let's help this lovely family out 🫶

For more information and Sudanese fund campaigns to support, kindly check this list

Update:

As of Aug. 30th the goal has been extended to $7k. I would like to remind everyone that this campaign feeds 20 ppl and it has been up for 4 months now and the situation has only gotten worse in Sudan, what with the current destructive floodings and heavy rain.

I ask of you to please continue sharing and donating, while I will focus on other Sudanese campaigns 🙏 thank you all.

Sorry for the tags ♡

My heart goes for Palestinian women who were raped in Israeli prisons.

Sudanese women who are being killed by militias and RSF.

Uyghur women whose identities are stripped in silent camps.

Kashmiri women who live under siege and fear.

Somali women surviving famine, conflict, and a world that forgets them.

Rohingya women who fled fire only to find cold tents and colder borders.

Yemeni women who bury their children under the rubble of a war they never asked for.

Afghan women whose voices are choked under bans and walls.

Iraqi women who carry the scars of invasion, occupation, and decades of loss.

Syrian women who rebuilt their homes with their bare hands after every explosion.

Libyan women navigating a country torn between warlords and chaos.

Bosnian women who still carry the ghosts of what was done to them.

Lebanese women holding their families together while everything around them collapses.

And every Muslim sister whose pain is dismissed.

Whose resilience is demanded.

Whose tears fall unheard.

May the world one day see them the way Allah does.

(فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ مَوْلَاكُمْ ۚ نِعْمَ الْمَوْلَىٰ وَنِعْمَ النَّصِيرُ)

Former Sudanese MP Siham Hassan Hasaballah has reportedly been killed in el-Fasher, as attacks by the Rapid Support Forces intensify in the city.