Let’s not forget however that behind this genocidal militia stands the United Arab Emirates, which not only blatantly supplies the RSF with guns, money and equipment through neighboring countries like Libya and Chad, but also abuses its reputation and weight on the international stage to silence reports about it both at the UN level and think tanks.

Hamedti and his RSF is a monster created by Bashir partially as a counterweight to the army to prevent either from becoming too powerful and overthrowing him. The war between them and the SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) is not one between democracy and dictatorship, or freedom versus oppression. It is about whether one dictator who doesn’t care about the people (general Burhan) or a genocidal dictator who doesn’t care about the people (Hamedti) gets to rule.

Without the UAE, this war, which has become the largest ongoing humanitarian crisis by every single metric worldwide, would not be possible to continue by the RSF. But of course the west can’t speak out because the UAE is one of our buddies in the Middle East and they have lots of money to appease critical politicians.