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The #EndJanjaweed Campaign is an initiative by the Berlin activist group, SudanUprising Germany, which was founded in January 2019 to support the goals of the Sudanese Revolution and protestor demands for freedom, peace and justice.
The long-term objective of #EndJanjaweed is to end Germany and the EU’s unethical and immoral policy support for migration control and externalized borders in Sudan, and by extension, its complicity in the rise of the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. The RSF is a Janjaweed militia. The word “janjaweed”, from the Darfur region of Western Sudan, refers to the militias that are accused by many in the region of war crimes and genocide. The RSF is a re-branding of these militias; its formation was prompted by former Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir’s desire to expand his assault capability not only in Darfur, but also in Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and eventually, against protestors and communities around the country, including the capital Khartoum.
EU policy, led by Germany, has been a key factor since 2015 in the violation of refugee and migrants rights in the Horn of Africa. The RSF, the rebranded name of the previous Border Guards (the official name for the Janjaweed, who had been mobilized by the al-Bashir regime) were tasked to intercept refugees and migrants at the borders. The RSF has a well-documented record of abuses in counter-insurgency operations in Darfur and other conflict areas, and largely led the violent crackdown against protesters on June 3, 2019 and following days. More than a 100 protestors were killed as a a result of the crackdown, and an unknown number were raped. The RSF now threaten the transition to democracy in Sudan following the revolution of 2018-2019; their leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (“Hemedti”) is the vice chairperson of the Sovereign Council and as such is at the highest levels of the state.
Of special importance to this campaign is to expose and end German and European complicity with the RSF by showing how the Khartoum Process continues in the post-revolutionary period, and in fact, may be expanding. German and European media coverage on Sudan has been very slow to address the revolution and the “Khartoum Process”. There has been little desire to cover German complicity in the dictatorship, perhaps due to a lack of knowledge.
The campaign is supported by Bewegungsstiftung and medico international.
Read about the Khartoum Process and the RSF here and here, and our 25 April 2020 detailed statement on Germany’s current relationship with Sudan here.
The long-term objective of #EndJanjaweed is to end Germany and the EU’s unethical and immoral policy support for migration control and externalized borders in Sudan, and by extension, its complicity in the rise of the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. The RSF is a Janjaweed militia. The word “janjaweed”, from the Darfur region of Western Sudan, refers to the militias that are accused by many in the region of war crimes and genocide. The RSF is a re-branding of these militias; its formation was prompted by former Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir’s desire to expand his assault capability not only in Darfur, but also in Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and eventually, against protestors and communities around the country, including the capital Khartoum.
EU policy, led by Germany, has been a key factor since 2015 in the violation of refugee and migrants rights in the Horn of Africa. The RSF, the rebranded name of the previous Border Guards (the official name for the Janjaweed, who had been mobilized by the al-Bashir regime) were tasked to intercept refugees and migrants at the borders. The RSF has a well-documented record of abuses in counter-insurgency operations in Darfur and other conflict areas, and largely led the violent crackdown against protesters on June 3, 2019 and following days. More than a 100 protestors were killed as a a result of the crackdown, and an unknown number were raped. The RSF now threaten the transition to democracy in Sudan following the revolution of 2018-2019; their leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (“Hemedti”) is the vice chairperson of the Sovereign Council and as such is at the highest levels of the state.
Of special importance to this campaign is to expose and end German and European complicity with the RSF by showing how the Khartoum Process continues in the post-revolutionary period, and in fact, may be expanding. German and European media coverage on Sudan has been very slow to address the revolution and the “Khartoum Process”. There has been little desire to cover German complicity in the dictatorship, perhaps due to a lack of knowledge.
The campaign is supported by Bewegungsstiftung and medico international.
Read about the Khartoum Process and the RSF here and here, and our 25 April 2020 detailed statement on Germany’s current relationship with Sudan here.
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