KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has called for an immediate ceasefire and urged the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to open humanitarian corridors to allow aid and supplies to be delivered to the people of El Fasher and all affected areas in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said Malaysia, along with the rest of the world, is watching in horror as the RSF continues to inflict a massacre and cause one of the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises in Sudan.
“The sheer scale of brutality on display is deplorable and, as shown by satellite images of blood covering the city of El Fasher, a literal bloodstain on all of humanity. It is absolutely unconscionable. These senseless acts of extreme violence must end now,” he said in a statement Monday.
Mohamad stressed that the world must not allow the continued revival of the Darfur genocide, warning that the darkest chapters of history must never be repeated.
Earlier, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia has called for an immediate cessation of violence and for the protection of civilians in full accordance with international humanitarian law.
“We stand in solidarity with the people of Sudan and urge the international community to act decisively to prevent further suffering, restore humanitarian access, and support a credible process toward peace and accountability,” he posted on Facebook.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry expressed Malaysia’s serious concern over the escalating security and humanitarian crisis in Sudan, particularly the intensification of conflict in the Darfur region.
Wisma Putra said Malaysia also called on all parties to the conflict to exercise maximum restraint and fully comply with their obligations to protect civilian lives and infrastructure
“To alleviate the humanitarian suffering, all parties must also guarantee safe and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance, including establishment of humanitarian corridors into all affected areas,” the ministry said in a separate statement.
Reports of atrocities, mass killings and large-scale displacement across the country are deeply alarming and the violence against civilians constitutes a clear breach of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, it added.
Since the RSF made a major incursion into the El Fasher city on Oct 23, the United Nations (UN) human rights office said it had received horrendous accounts of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, attacks against humanitarian workers, looting, abductions, and forced displacement.
Sudan has been ravaged by a civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF since April 2023, resulting in thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions of people.
According to the UN, Sudan has become the site of the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement crisis on record, with about 14 million people displaced out of a population of 51 million.
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