WASHINGTON — The Rapid Support Forces’ violent repression in Sudan’s Darfur region amounts to genocide, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday as the Biden administration unveiled sanctions on the paramilitary group’s leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
The Treasury Department sanctioned Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, due to the RSF’s “litany of documented war crimes and atrocities, including ethnically motivated killings and sexual violence as a weapon of war.”
Blinken had earlier determined that the RSF and its allied militias had engaged in war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing.
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