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  • Simon Brookesimon_brooke@mastodon.scot
    Jun 25, 2026, 3:35 PM

    'The UK could have stopped a #genocidal #massacre in #Sudan’s El Fasher but failed to act over concerns it would anger the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a top war crimes expert has told Parliament.

    Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond said he provided the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with intelligence for more than two years warning that the fall of El Fasher would unleash “one of the single largest mass casualty events of the 21st century”'

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  • Simon Brookesimon_brooke@mastodon.scot
    Jun 25, 2026, 3:37 PM

    'With his warnings ignored, more than 60,000 people were killed when the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the Northern Darfur state capital last October. The UN has since said the massacre showed “hallmarks of genocide”...

    Raymond said his team... believed the UK was its “best hope” for stopping the siege. But his team’s warnings were ignored despite two dozen private meetings with the office of then-foreign secretary David Lammy'

    #Genocide
    #Sudan

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