{"id":2054,"date":"2025-10-31T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:44:44","slug":"global-health-justice-teams-statement-on-the-rapid-support-forces-massacre-of-civilians-in-al-fasher-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/global-health-justice-teams-statement-on-the-rapid-support-forces-massacre-of-civilians-in-al-fasher-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Health Justice Team’s Statement on the Rapid Support Forces\u2019 Massacre of Civilians in Al-Fasher, Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many of you, we the Global Health Justice (GHJ) team have seen the heart-wrenching images and videos of torture, forced starvation and murder of innocent Sudanese coming out of Al-Fasher over the past few days. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who are directly being funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a \u201c<\/span>Major Defense Partner<\/span><\/a>\u201d of the U.S., have invaded the city after laying siege on it for over 18 months. We\u2019ve seen the videos of young children being tortured, read reports of the RSF raping of girls and women and watched with our own eyes the mass murder of innocent humanitarians gunned down by the RSF for simply daring to bring food into the besieged city filled with starving families.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We, the GHJ team, condemn the targeting and massacre of innocent Sudanese children, women, and men by the RSF. We condemn the<\/span> UAE government\u2019s funding<\/span><\/a> and support of this genocidal militia\u2013the very same militia that committed similar atrocities in <\/span>Darfur in the early 2000s<\/span><\/a>. We condemn the international media\u2019s lack of equitable coverage and raising awareness on both the atrocities committed by the RSF and of the Sudanese war in general since its start early spring of 2023. We condemn the disregard for and the cheapening of Black people\u2019s blood, pain and suffering.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We extend our support, love and compassion to all of our Sudanese family, friends, and colleagues both within the Global Health Department, across the University of Washington and the city of Seattle at large. We encourage our readers and community members to extend their support to our Sudanese community members who have to watch their families and loved ones suffer while the rest of the world watches in complacency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We encourage faculty members and teaching teams to speak out against these atrocities supported by our ally and to reach out to and provide accommodations to their Sudanese students as needed. Lastly, we encourage everyone to read the articles on our <\/span>website<\/span><\/a> regarding the war in Sudan and raise awareness within their communities. We will be updating our website with information and resources on how you can continue to be of support to our Sudanese community.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Global Health Justice Articles on Sudan<\/b><\/h3>\n
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  1. Sudan\u2019s War and the Collapse of Global Responsibility<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  2. War in Sudan: Unprecedented hunger and displacement<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Sudan\u2019s Forgotten War<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Crisis in Sudan: Urgent Call for De-Escalation in El Fasher<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. International Double Standards in Humanity: The War in Sudan<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Global attacks on hospitals, health workers \u2013 Sudan, Ukraine, Burma<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Sudan\u2019s Ongoing Crisis: Unpacking the Root Causes of Violence and the Elusive Pursuit of Peace Amidst Global Inequities<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Like many of you, we the Global Health Justice (GHJ) team have seen the heart-wrenching images and videos of torture, forced starvation and murder of innocent Sudanese coming out of Al-Fasher over the past few days. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who are directly being funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a \u201cMajor Defense Partner\u201d of the U.S., have invaded the city after laying siege on it for over 18 months. We\u2019ve seen the videos of young children being…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[108,54,110,92,25,177,72,178],"media_type_reference":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-militarism","tag-geopolitical","tag-global-health-justice","tag-global-south","tag-human-rights-violations","tag-militarism","tag-rsf","tag-sudan","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"media_type_reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalhealthjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type_reference?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}