On the 3rd of November of 2025, an

anonymous user posted this satellite

image on X with a caption, "This is the

most disturbing Google Earth image

ever." The user purported that the image

depicted a huge dark stain of blood

littered with the bodies of hundreds of

victims of a recent massacre committed

in Sudan. A shocking site that quickly

went viral across the internet with the

anonymous user demanding the viewer

speak out on the ongoing genocide that's

taking place in the country. The image

was viewed more than 15 million times on

X and is probably the single most viewed

piece of media that has come out from

Sudan in the past 2 years during the

country's devastating civil war. You've

maybe even seen this image yourself. And

it's all a terrible tragedy because this

image isn't what you think it is. The

image was posted to X at the same time

that an unprecedented massacre of people

was taking place in the heavily

populated city of El Fasure in the

territory of Darur in western Sudan. But

the image shows an area in a much

smaller town called Kumia that's about

300 km away from Elaser. Information

provided by Google Earth also showed

that this particular satellite image was

captured on the 16th of March of 2024,

more than a year and a half ago before

recent events. And even more damning,

earlier satellite images captured over

the same location from 2022 before the

civil war in Sudan had even begun still

show the exact same stain in the exact

same place. Because in reality, this is

simply a watering hole. And the image

posted to X only shows a herd of cattle

gathered around it drinking, not a pile

of human bodies and blood left over from

a massacre. And what's truly infuriating

about this whole episode is that even

though this particular mega viral post

that was made to X was false and

misleading, it remains highly probable

that the greatest crime of the entire

21st century did indeed just take place

300 km further to the north in the city

of El Fascher. And so far, almost the

entire world hasn't even heard about it

at best or is actively ignoring and

suppressing it at worst. The city of

Alaser is the capital of Sudan's

Northstar fur state. And when the

current civil war in the country began

in April of 2023, it was then under the

control of the Sudin armed forces. Their

rivals in the civil war, the rapid

support forces or the RSF, almost

immediately began laying siege to the

city the moment the war began, trapping

nearly all of its estimated 260,000

residents inside, half of whom were

believed to be children. For the next 18

apocalyptic, brutal months, the RSF

continued tightening their noose around

the city, bombarding it with artillery

and drones, refusing to allow the

passage of any aid or food in and any

people in or out, and steadily letting

the population inside weakened to famine

and disease. More than 220 separate RSF

assaults were launched to seize control

over the city throughout the whole

18month siege. a siege that UNICEF at

one point referred to as a siege out of

the medieval era rather than one from

our own. In August of 2025, the RSF

began constructing a massive burr, a

raised sand barrier, completely

encircling the perimeter of El Faser to

tighten their grip over the city even

further, controlling the flow of people

and material in and out even more

ruthlessly. By early October of 2025,

Alaser and its 260,000 residents stuck

inside were completely surrounded by

this burm. All contained into a small

area of just 7 square miles that they

could no longer escape from and where

they were blocked off from the rest of

the outside world, as seen in the

satellite imagery. And throughout the

entire period of this horrible siege,

numerous people and experts from all

around the world were consistently

sounding the alarm that if and when El

Fasure fell to the RSF, an unbelievable

massacre was awaiting for the

belleaguered population still trapped

inside. Because the RSF's nature has

been well known for a while now. In mid

2023, soon after the civil war in Sudan

began, the RSF captured the capital of

the West First State, a city known as

Eljanida. There they systematically

murdered as many as 15,000 of the city's

residents. Nearly 2 years later, in

April of 2025, on their way to Alaser,

the RSF overran what was then Sudan's

largest refugee camp and committed a

similar atrocity, murdering more than

1,500 more people and forcibly

displacing another 400,000 others.

Throughout the entire siege of Belfaser,

the RSS rhetoric repeatedly portrayed

the city's entire population, half of

whom were children, as valid military

targets who needed to be annihilated.

Threats that the outside international

community ignored and ultimately failed

to act upon. Finally, by the 26th of

October, after 18 months of siege and

nearly constant warnings, the final

positions of the Sudin armed forces were

overwhelmed in the city, and the RSF

flooded in from beyond the burm to

assume control, and they immediately

began carrying out what might well be

the most brutal and horrific war crime

of the entire 21st century. enormous

ethnically targeted and systematic

door-to-door mass executions began

taking place that have been so

catastrophic in scale that it is true

pools of blood have been visible in

satellite images that have been captured

over El Fascher even though that one

specific one that was posted to X

happened to be false. There have been

plenty of other satellite images taken

that indeed appear to confirm this.

There are satellite images like this one

taken on the 31st of October showing a

pile of burnedout vehicles adjacent to

the BBM that encircled the city. Perhaps

most hauntingly are these series of

satellite images that I'm about to show

you. The first was captured over a

former children's hospital in El Fascher

on the 26th of October, the day that the

city fell to the RSF's forces. Just 4

days later, the hospital's entire

courtyard was filled with white shapes

measuring between 1 and 1/2 and 2 m in

length. while a fresh disturbance in the

soil nearby was measured between 5 and 6

m in length. 3 days later, the shapes in

the courtyard remained while the

excavation outside had widened to 12 by

8 m. And the following day, a layer of

fresh soil covered up the excavation

area, suggesting just one terrible crime

here across an entire city full of

terrible crimes that were and still are

taking place. documented by video after

video after video that's been released

by the RSF that due to their graphic

nature I won't be sharing here. The

sheer scale of the killing that took

place in El Fasure after the RSF took it

over is at present unknown. The city was

subjected to a communications blackout

shortly after the RSF overran it, which

as of this video's production continues

to remain in effect. But analysts who

have been studying the civil war in

Sudan and following the siege in El

Faser, who have looked at the evidence

available, suggest that the scale of

death taking place is unlike anything

else we've seen in the 21st century.

Nathaniel Raymond, the executive

director at Yale's humanitarian research

lab that has been extensively following

the war in Sudan, said that more people

could have died in just one week in

Elaser after the RSF takeover than have

died during the past 2 years of war in

Gaza, which is just horrendously

apocalyptic to even imagine. At least

69,000 people have been killed in Gaza,

according to Gaza's Health Ministry

during the war with Israel over these

past 2 years, implying that the Yale

humanitarian research lab believes that

even more human beings than that could

have been killed in just a single week

in El Fasure. And there's a very good

chance that this is the very first time

that you're even hearing about it. To

put the scale of this calamity even

further into context, if accurate,

that's a scale of killing that hasn't

been seen anywhere in the world since

the opening days of the Rwanda genocide

in 1994. And yet, the world outside of

Elaser, Darur, and Sudan has barely even

heard anything about it. Even as the RSF

continues its killings in Alfasure and

continues its advances across the rest

of the country that may yet befall

similar horrendous ends, the world is

doing precious little to stop the

horrors that are actively taking place

in Darfur right now with other major

conflicts competing for international

attention that are still taking place in

Ukraine and Gaza. But if you'd like to

learn about what's happening in Darur

right now, if you give a damn about

what's happening here, and if you want

to learn the ongoing genocide sources

and how it might be stopped, I'm begging

you to watch this video and to share it

more than any other video that I've ever

produced on this channel. Because there

is a way to stop what's happening in

Darfur before tens to hundreds of

thousands of more people are lost there

forever. And to get to how, you need to

first understand what's happening in

Darfur in the first place and how this

all got so so terrible there today.

Darur's history is complicated to say

the least. Today, it's a region of

Western Sudan that borders the Central

African Republic, Chad, and Libya. But

that's a fairly recent development

historically. Existing at the fringes of

both the Arab and the subsaharan African

worlds, Darur has experienced centuries

of migration, ethnic mixing, and inner

marriage that has made ethnic identity

here extremely fluid and difficult for

outsiders to parse. Many modern

commentators have simplified the modern

Darur conflict by boiling it all down

into one of ancient ethnic tensions

between Arabs and black Africans, but

that's not entirely accurate. If you, as

an outsider, travel to Darur, you won't

notice any visible racial or religious

differences between the two sides that

are involved in this violence. Everybody

present in Darur, regardless of whether

or not they identify as Arab or African,

are equally black, equally Muslim, and

equally indigenous to the land that they

reside on. Within Darfur, the identities

of Arab and African are more based on

linguistics and occupation. There are a

variety of Arabic-speaking nomadic

tribes who practice pastoralism that

identify as Arab largely concentrated in

northern Darfur historically and a

variety of non-Arabic speaking sedentary

groups who practice farming largely

concentrated in the south who identify

as more African with the more well-known

larger groups being the masselate, the

Zagawa, and the fur. The latter of whom

are the group that the region of Darur

itself is named after roughly

translating into land of the fur. Even

still, it's important for you to

understand that these identities are not

rigid in Darur and that the occupational

identities between pastoralist Arabs and

farmer Africans are often crossed. For

most of the pre-colonial era, the fur

were the dominant group in this part of

the world and they maintained an

independent sultanate for centuries

until it was crushed and conquered

fairly recently historically in 1874 by

a Sudin warlord who joined it for the

first time into Sudan. Sudan itself was

then later conquered by the colonial

forces of Britain and Egypt and Sudan

was transformed into a joint Anglo

Egyptian colony in 1899. At the same

time, the Darur Sultanate was restored

by a descendant of the royal lineage of

the previous Sultanate and so Darur was

allowed to retain its independence again

in exchange for an annual tribute.

Darfur then remained independent again

for a number of years until the first

world war when its leader began aligning

himself with the Ottoman Empire which

provoked the British into invading and

conquering Darur and annexing it back

into Anglo Egyptian Sudan in 1916.

Meaning that Darfur has really only been

a part of Sudan for just a little over a

hundred years now. Throughout the entire

period of colonial and postcolonial

Sudin rule in Darfur that has persisted

since 1916, Darfur has remained a deeply

rural, remote, underdeveloped, and

neglected region out of the country's

periphery. Sudan itself came to be

dominated politically, culturally, and

economically by a relatively small group

of Arabic-speaking elites in the upper

Nile Valley near the capital and the

largest city of Kart 2, to whom all

resources in the country were sent to

and were virtually all development being

concentrated without much at all shared

with any of the peripheral regions that

were largely made up of non-Arabs and/or

non-Muslims who understandably came to

feel increasingly marginalized,

particularly in Darur in the west and

especially in what would eventually

become South Sudan in the south. Darur

is a geographically huge region that's

roughly comparable in size to Spain. And

since it is a long region from north to

south and also extends across a variety

of different climate zones. The

northernmost parts of Darur are arid

deserts within the Sahara that connect

with the borders of Egypt and Libya. The

center is a rugged arid plateau that is

dominated by the towering Mara mountains

that provide abundant water. While the

south is a rich savannah environment

that also receives a considerable amount

of rainfall. Broadly speaking, the

northern parts of Darura have

historically been inhabited by

camelowning Arabic speaking nomadic

peoples who seek out grazing land for

their livestock while the southern parts

have historically been inhabited by

farming non-Arabic-speaking sedentary

people. For centuries, as the northern

Arabic-speaking nomads traveled south

with their herds, they entered into

negotiations for their animal routes

with the farming communities that they

came into contact with, which came to be

legally sanctioned by the Sudin

government itself during the postc

colonial era. But in the 1980s, this

historical system began rapidly breaking

down in the face of a catastrophic

drought and ensuing famine. As the

climate began to change in Darur, the

available supply of arable land began to

shrink. Rainfall began becoming less

frequent and more difficult to predict.

At the same time as Darfur's population

was rising rapidly, which kickstarted a

dangerous cycle in which arable land

along the southern rim of the Sahara

came to be used more intensively to

support the growing population, which in

turn further the rate of desertification

and so on. In 1983 and 84, the raids in

Darfur failed completely. Desperate

farmers in the south faced with the

failure of their crops began switching

to animal husbandry and grazing. While

desperate nomads in the north faced with

a shrinking supply of grazing land began

moving south and entering into conflicts

with the southerners, tens of thousands

of Daruries simply walked across the

country to cartoon in search of food

only to become falsely declared as

refugees from Chad and sent back by the

government to Darur where they had come

from where there wasn't any food. In the

end, a devastating famine killed an

estimated 95,000 people at Darfur

between these years out of a population

that at the time stood at just 3.1

million, implying that about 3% of the

population was lost. And at the same

time, the increasing competition over

shrinking resources like arable land and

water was being inflamed by a new sense

of ethnic identity that was being pushed

in by Sudan's elites and by outside

influences.

Sudan's Arabic-speaking elites far away

in cartoon had long concentrated the

lion's share of economic development

within their own region at the expense

of all of the country's peripheries. But

they also attempted to create a unifying

national identity of the postcolonial

era that was based around Arabism and

Islam much to the fury of the non-Arab

and non-Muslim peoples around the

periphery. These policies especially

inflamed tensions in the south of Sudan

where the people were neither Arab nor

Muslim and led to decades of massive

civil wars and violence between the

north and the south that ultimately

resulted in the deaths of millions of

people. But they also led to steadily

rising tensions in Darur as well as

violence from the north south conflict

spilled over into it. The international

borders between Darur and neighboring

countries like Chad and Libya are

particularly porous and in many cases

only really exist on paper. Many of the

non-Arabic speaking ethnic groups in

Darur like the Zagawa and the Masselate

straddle the border with Chad and spill

over onto the other side just like the

Arabic speaking groups in northern

Darfur do as well. Meaning that

conflicts erupting in either Chad or

Darfur have a bad habit of spreading

across the international border across

their communities. This problem was

particularly acute to the 1980s at the

same time as Darfur was suffering its

chronic famine when Chad was

simultaneously involved in a series of

civil wars that saw heavy military

intervention from Muar Gaddafi's Libya.

At this time, Gaddafi, an arded pan-Arab

nationalist, was obsessed with creating

a geopolitical vision that he called the

Arab belt across the Sahel region of

Africa. a series of statelets consisting

of the Arabic-speaking peoples found

across Chad, Nijair, and Mali that he

wanted to separate from their countries

in order to create a continuous belt of

Arab majority states across the Sahel

from the Red Sea to the Atlantic. To

support this goal, Gaddafi created a

paramilitary militia that he called the

Islamic Legion in the early 1970s. It

came to be largely composed of thousands

of impoverished Arabic-sp speakaking

volunteers in search of money from Chad

and especially from the nomadic northern

communities in Darur and was deployed by

Gaddafi to fight against the Chadian

government throughout the 1980s along

with the flood of weapons. The Islamic

Legion took advantage of the poorest

borders between Chad and Darur and

utilized Darur as a rear base to launch

raids and attacks into Chad from while

their weapons proliferated across Darur

as well. The Islamic Legion came to

openly embrace an ethnic Arab

supremacist ideology that was pushed

down from the top by Gaddafi himself.

And after Libya was ultimately defeated

in Chad and the Legion was disbanded in

the late 1980s, many of their

well-trained members began returning

back home to Darur, armed with both

their weapons and their ideology amidst

the increasing environmental issues that

were already pushing the region towards

conflict. These returning former members

of the Islamic Legion then founded a new

political block in Darfur that they

called the Arab gathering which

continued to espouse an Arab supremacist

ideology and claimed that the Arabic

speaking people in Darfur were being

politically and economically

marginalized by the non-Arabic-speaking

African peoples in the region like the

fur and the Zagawa despite the fact that

the Arabic-speaking peoples made up a

majority of the overall population.

non-Arabic-speaking African identifying

communities then began forming

self-defense militias in order to resist

them. And so identity divisions that had

once been local and ecological in Darur

like herders versus farmers suddenly

became ethnopolitical and even

racialized in nature in a way that they

had never really been before the 1980s.

While the central government in cartoon

that also espoused an Arab and Muslim

supremacist ideology began arming and

supporting the Arab gathering and other

Arab militias in Darur to help retain

their control over the region.

Small-scale violence between both

communities began building, resulting in

a few thousand deaths across the 1990s

that was only overshadowed by the much

larger fighting that was still raging

between the North and the South. By

2003, after more than 21 years of civil

war between the North and the South, and

after as many as 2 million deaths, both

sides were exhausted in a stalemate. And

so, the Sudin government, dominated by

the Arabic speaking elites of Cartoum,

decided to finally enter into a peace

negotiations with the South to put an

end to the war once and for all. The

agreement they came up with ended the

long-running North South civil war and

paved the way for the South's ultimate

secession and independence that would

come a few years later in 2011. But it

was also heavily criticized at the time

for only focusing on the North South

conflict and none of Sudan's other

peripheral conflicts like the one that

had emerged separately in Darur. Enraged

at the neglect that was afforded to

Darfur and its problems by the elites

and cartoon once again, two rebel

movements emerged in the region called

the Sudan Liberation Army or SLA and the

Justice and Equality Movement or JM.

Both of which demanded greater autonomy

for Darur from the central government in

a redistribution of political power and

economic resources. By April of 2003,

rebels from both of these groups began

attacking Sudin army bases across Darur

and began scoring rapid victories due to

the Sudin army still being overextended

and preoccupied down in the south. So

instead of diverting their army away

from the south to take care of the

situation, the Sudin government resorted

to exploiting the ethnic tensions that

had recently emerged in Darur and began

arming the Arabic speaking groups in the

region to turn against the others and

act as their legal enforcers instead of

the army. These Arabic speaking militias

in Darfur armed by the government and

backed by the regular army brigades and

the air force came to be known as the

John and they were sanctioned by the

government to put down the rebellion in

Darfur by any and all means necessary.

Any village in the region that was

inhabited by the same ethnicity as a

rebel leader who were most often

non-Arabs were considered to be valid

targets for their attacks. And because

the government usually couldn't pay the

fighters of the Janjoued a reliable

salary like they could the army, they

enabled them to loot and pillage at will

wherever they advance for their

compensation instead. The result was a

devastatingly brutal crackdown in Darur

that for a time put previously obscure

Darfur front and center on the world

stage and the international agenda. Tens

of thousands of civilians in Darurb were

directly massacred by the Janje and

their collaborators, while hundreds of

thousands of others are believed to have

died due to the resulting famine and

disease that their actions caused. In

total, between 2003 and 2005, around

300,000

people at Darur were likely killed as a

direct result of the Jonjoued's actions.

Satellite images taking over Darur at

the time showed villages ablaze and

clear signs of mass atrocities. A major

advocacy group was formed in the United

States called the Save Darur coalition

to raise the public's awareness of what

was going on and to put pressure on the

US government to take decisive action to

stop it. And it was backed by multiple

influential celebrities at the time like

George Clooney, Don Cheetel, Mia

Pharaoh, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt,

Alicia Keys, Oprah Winfrey, Matt Damon,

and Johnny Depp among many others. The

publicity and pressure that they applied

on the US government contributed to then

US Secretary of State Colin Pal to

formally declare that the John Joued was

committing genocide in Darfur in 2004.

Around the same time, an inquiry by the

UN concluded that there was irrefutable

evidence of war crimes taking place in

Darfur on a vast scale and urged the

security council to refer the case to

the International Criminal Court or the

ICC. A subsequent UN resolution demanded

that the Sudin government disarm the

Jaguid and halt their military flights

that they were conducting over Darfur.

Though the UN has consistently avoided

using the term genocide while referring

to these events that took place in

Darthur, a great degree of controversy

arose over whether or not the events

that took place in Darfur at this time

constituted the crime of genocide or

not. To date, the US government is the

only government in the world that has

actually declared the crisis in Darfur

during that time to have been genocidal

in nature. The UN formally concluded

that while the Sudanese government's

actions in Darfur were brutal and

deliberate, they lacked genocidal intent

because the government's primary goal

was counterinsurgency, not the

deliberate destruction of entired groups

of people. while others like the US

government disagreed and concluded that

the Janjawed was specifically targeting

non-Arab groups in Darfur with violence.

All of which gave rise to a unique term

to describe the events that took place

in Darfur at this time the ambiguous

genocide. By 2006 the government and

some of the rebel groups in Darur signed

a peace agreement. But other rebel

factions continued to fight on and the

overall violence continued but to a

lesser scale than between 2003 and 2005.

The Chanjaweed continued to terrorize

the population in Darur, while the

government blamed the continued violence

on the rebels who had rejected the peace

accords and claimed rather implausibly

that only 10,000 people in Darfur had

been killed by all of the violence that

was taking place. The government

initially refused to allow international

monitors into Darur and heavily

restricted the flow of information that

was coming out of the region. While they

vehemently opposed the UN's efforts to

deploy a peacekeeping force to Darur

based on the argument that such a force

would be a violation of their national

sovereignty. Eventually in 2007, Sudan

relented and allowed a joint African

Union UN peacekeeping force to be

deployed to Darur to protect civilians

and monitor ceasefires that at the time

was the largest peacekeeping force

assembled anywhere in the world. By the

2010s, the rebel movements in Darfur

began splintering into smaller factions.

And although the scale of violence

declined, more than 2 and a half million

people in the region continued to remain

displaced in refugee camps out of a

total population that at the time stood

at only just a little over 6 million.

The government would eventually declare

the war in Sudan to be over by 2016. And

in 2017, the UN began scaling down their

operations as the pace of violence

continued declining. By 2020, the UN's

mission would conclude entirely. But

despite the overwhelming evidence

towards the scale of war crimes and

atrocities that took place in Darfur

during all of this time, hardly anyone

has ever been legally held to account,

which has no doubt instilled a sense of

complete impunity amongst those

committing the current atrocities and

again today. Although the Sudanese

government sometimes paid lip service to

holding Jon officers and commanders

responsible for war crimes, no such

officers or commanders have yet ever

been brought to trial. Far to the

contrary, in 2013, the ragtag John

militia from Darur was formerly elevated

in status by Sudan's then dictator Omar

Albashir into a completely separate and

parallel armed forces in the country

that came to be called the rapid support

forces or the RSF. done so because

Albashir hoped that the move would earn

him their loyalty and enable him to play

the RSF and the Sudin armed forces

against each other to prevent them from

ever being able to join together and

overthrow him. The ICC has done a little

bit better than the Sudin government,

but not by much. The ICC issued warrants

for Omar Albashir's arrest in 2009 and

2010 on charges of crimes against

humanity and genocide, but a date the

court has still never managed to get

their hands on him. Very recently in

October of 2025, the ICC found one

former John Joued commander, best known

by his alias, Cushe, guilty on 27 counts

of war crimes and crimes against

humanity that were committed in Darfur.

But to date, he is the only person who

has ever been brought to trial over what

happened in Darfur more than 20 years

ago. And the only reason it happened at

all was because he voluntarily

surrendered himself to the ICC in 2020

out of a fear that an even worse fate

was awaiting him if he remained any

longer in Sudan. Eventually, Omar

Albashir strategy of playing the RSF and

the Sudin armed forces against each

other failed by 2019 and he was

overthrown during a popular revolution

that turned into a coup. The RSF's

leader, Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, better

known as Himemedi, and the Sudin armed

forces leader, Abdel Fatal Burhan, then

entered into a power sharing agreement

with Alberhan serving as president and

Jimedi serving as vice president. Four

years later, after almost constant

failed power sharing renegotiations, the

two men couldn't stand to share power in

Sudan with the other any longer. And by

April of 2023, their rival armies

finally began shooting at each other.

And so began the current ongoing civil

war in the country. Now, with all of

this context that I've been building for

you, it's very important to understand

right now that the current civil war in

Sudan isn't just a war between two

power-hungry rival generals. It's also

one between two fundamentally different

heirs of the same regime that has

dominated Sudan ever since it gained its

independence from Britain in the 1950s.

the Sudanese armed forces led by the

same kind of Arab officers from Sudan's

longtime ethnic and political center in

the upper Nile Valley and the RSF which

is just the latest iteration of Darfur's

Arabic-speaking ideological militias

that draws a continuous line back to the

Johned of the 2000s and Gaddafi's

Islamic Legion of the 1980s and '7s and

even before the current enormous

atrocity that appears to have just taken

place in Alaser happened the war between

them across Sudan was probably already

the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis

anywhere in the world, going even beyond

the parallel tragedies that are also

taking place in Ukraine and Gaza. The UN

declared that famine had become endemic

in Sudan more than a year ago back in

2024. While further UN reports concluded

that some 25 million people in the

country are currently facing extreme

levels of hunger, while at least 12

million people have been forced to flee

from their homes, including 4 million

who have fled the country altogether. By

August of 2025, a little more than 2

years into the fighting of the war, the

former US special envoy for Sudan until

very recently, Tom Perelloo reported

that he believed the death toll from the

war had exceeded more than 400,000

people. And this was while El Faser was

still under siege by the RSF and the

massacre there had not yet even

happened. And while the RSF and the

Sudin armed forces have been viciously

fighting each other for power across the

country with abundant war crimes, the

RSF has also been furthering the

ethnic-based terror in Darur against the

non-Arabic speaking communities there

that their Janji predecessors began in

the early 2000s. Many large-scale RSF

perpetrated massacres of

non-Arabic-speaking peoples in Darur

like the Massalate were well documented

even before their siege of El Fasure

such as at Eljanida in 2023 where they

systematically killed as many as 15,000

people including the local governor in

houseto-house massacres and drove

hundreds of thousands of others out

after taking the city over. Throughout

the entire 18 months that Alfaser was

under a complete siege by the RSF with

more than 200,000 mostly

non-Arabic-speaking Zagawa civilians

trapped inside. The international

community did little to actually stop

what nearly anyone who paid attention to

this conflict knew would result in a

catastrophic massacre if the RSF managed

to break through. Throughout it all, the

UN Security Council issued just two

resolutions that only called for a

temporary ceasefire and an end to the

siege at El Fasure without any concrete

enforcement mechanisms to back them up.

In early 2025, with the siege still

ongoing, one of the Biden

administration's final acts was to

declare that the RSF was once again

responsible for committing genocide at

Darur just like their John predecessors.

a determination that has been continued

by the current Trump administration as

well. Financial and travel sanctions

have since been applied by the US

government on Jimedi and other RSF

leadership, but none of these have

caused any perceptible changes down on

the ground. Alaser was still ultimately

overrun by the RSF. And now potentially

tens of thousands of people who were

trapped inside, terrified for more than

18 months are dead. the evidence of

which has flooded the internet from

videos taken by the RSF themselves and

from satellites orbiting above in space.

And now that al fascia has fallen, the

RSF has been left almost entirely in

control of the whole of Darur. meaning

that there is a very real prospect that

Sudan may further bulcanize now between

a genocidal RSF regime in power in Darur

and the Sudanese armed forces in power

in the rest of the country that still

remains leaving behind the rest of

Darur's non-Arabic speaking minorities

to the RSF's mercy which based on all

prior evidence simply does not exist

more massacres and brutality in Darur is

all but a certainty with the RSF still

in power but if there's any silver

lining from the scale of what's just

happened in Elf Fasher, it's the fact

that for the first time since this

horrible civil war began in Sudan, the

world's attention has briefly returned

back to Darur again, and there is a

small window of opportunity to pressure

a change before the situation inevitably

gets even more apocalyptic.

The primary force that is enabling the

RSF to commit their atrocities at Darur

is a key US regional ally. The United

Arab Emirates or the UAE who provided

the RSF with the lion's share of their

arms, finances, and political cover

throughout the civil war. The UAE is one

of the wealthiest countries in the world

thanks to their enormous oil resources,

and they're also one of the world's top

international arms customers as well.

Between 2007 and 2014, the UAE ordered

more than $22 billion worth of

conventional arms, mostly from the US

and major Western European states like

France and the UK. In 2020, the UAE

entered into a massive brand new $23

billion arms deal with the United

States, including modern F-35 fighters,

Reaper drones, and billions of dollars

worth of munitions. Well, they've doled

out billions of dollars for additional

arms purchases from France, Britain,

Russia, and China as well. And huge

amounts of these arms that the UAE have

been purchasing from all around the

world have been ending up in the hands

of the RSF in Darur. After the city of

Omderman near the capital was taken back

over by the Sudin armed forces earlier

this year, they reported that they

uncovered an arsenal of hundreds of

modern Americanmade javelin missile

systems and countless rounds of 155mm

artillery shells that the RSF had

abandoned. Verified footage of RSF

fighters have shown them armed with

Americanmade M4 and AR-15 rifles.

British-made engines have been

discovered in RSF armored personnel

carriers along with French and Russian

weapons and Chinese drones. The advanced

Chinese-made CH95 drone has been

frequently spotted in the hands of the

RSF and Darur recently which have given

the RSF advanced military capabilities

like long range reconnaissance and air

strikes. But none of these countries

have been directly supplying the RSF

with these weapons because they're being

funneled into their hands by the UAE. A

little over two years ago, the Wall

Street Journal was the first major

outlet that reported on the UAE supply

chain of weapons to the RSF. At the

time, the Journal alleged that the UAE

was flying cargo planes to a nearby

airport across the border in Chad that

were laden with weapons bound for the

RSF and that the UAE was disguising

these cargo planes and arms shipments as

humanitarian missions. In the spring of

2025, the RSF began experiencing a

series of major military setbacks in

their war against the Sudin armed forces

that culminated with their loss of the

country's capital cartoon in March.

After that, fearing that the RSF was

losing the war, evidence suggests that

the UAE began rapidly increasing the

pace of their arms deliveries to them,

which has been reported by America's

Defense Intelligence Agency and the

State Department's intelligence bureau

using battlefield and satellite images.

In addition to their usual route of

funneling arms into the RSF's hands

through Chad, the UAE has begun adding

additional arms smuggling routes using

cargo planes to Somalia and Libya as

well with land transfers directly to the

RSF continuing on from them. It was this

rapid increase in arms from the UAE in

mid 2025 that enabled the RSF to tighten

their noose around El Fasure and to

increase the pace of their attacks and

pressure and which ultimately led to the

probable massacre that we're currently

observing from space. And without the

major arm sales that countries are

making with the UAE that are then being

transferred by them to the RSF, it's

doubtful that the RSF would be capable

of continuing on fighting or committing

its countless atrocities. The UAE is

doing all of this because they see the

RSF has the best odds at defending their

own interests in Sudan. The UAE is

ultimately interested in access to

Sudan's strategic Red Sea ports, its

agricultural commodities, and most of

all, the country's rich gold deposits.

Sudan is one of the most naturally

gold-rich countries in the world, and

the richest areas are located in Darur.

And while smuggling gold out of the

country isn't anything new, it has

rapidly expanded since the start of the

current civil war. For the past few

years, an informal and clandestine

arrangement has been established between

the UAE and the RSF that sees weapons

flowing towards the RSF and gold flowing

back towards the UAE. Gold from RSFrun

mines in Darurus, smuggled across

borders in a Chad, the Central African

Republic, South Sudan, and Uganda, and

then airlifted directly out to Dubai. In

2024, with the civil war raging

throughout the year, the UAE was Sudan's

largest export market with 1.6 billion

worth of total exports, 91% of which was

all just entirely gold, which also made

up more than half of all of Sudan's

exports. Gold has become one of the

UAE's most significant diversification

strategies away from oil, which has seen

Dubai become transformed into one of the

primary trading hubs in the global gold

trade. The city is now home to thousands

of gold traders in numerous gold

refineries. While Africa has become the

country's primary source of gold, gold

imports from Africa into the UAE nearly

tripled over just a decade between 2012

and 2022. In 2022 specifically, the UAE

imported roughly 59.5

billion dollar worth of gold into the

country and 58% of that amount all just

came from Africa. According to data

acquired from Swiss aid that was

released in 2024.

Very notably, this also meant that in

2022, almost 7% of the UAE's entire GDP

was made up of imported African gold.

And a significant amount of that has

been coming from the mines of Darur

under the RSF's control. But the weapons

that the UAE is providing to the RSF in

exchange for this gold supply is

directly contributing to enormous

historical atrocities like what's just

happened at El Fascher. And the weapons

that the US and other countries are

selling to the UAE are directly

contributing to it as well. The key to

halting the RSS wanting massacres and

brutality in Darur lies in pressuring

the UAE into ending their support for

the group. But that's unfortunately

easier said than done. The UAE is a

major US ally in the Middle East and is

friendly and useful to Washington in

many different ways. In addition to

simply purchasing tens of billions of

dollars worth of US weapons and stuffing

the coffers of US defense industry

companies, the UAE has also committed to

investing a massive 1.4 trillion dollars

into the United States over the next 10

years in sectors like AI, data centers,

energy, and manufacturing. The UAE hosts

a major US Air Force base in Al Dafra,

which is home to the US 380th Air

Expeditionary Wing that has been used to

support aerial missions in the region

against ISIS and Iran. The UAE has also

been the most significant Arab power to

date to join the Trump administration's

Abraham Accords that normalize their

relations with Israel, and they have

voiced their support for Trump's

proposed peace plan in Gaza as well.

Piling on pressure on the UAE to cut

their support for the RSF risks severing

the lucrative gold trade that's flowing

from Darfur to the UAE. And by

extension, it risks jeopardizing the

massive financial investments and arms

purchases that the UAE is making with

the United States. The status of a key

US air force base in the Middle East.

And perhaps worst of all, it could

jeopardize the whole Abraham Accords by

causing the UAE to reconsider the

recognition of Israel, which would risk

upending what has so far been one of the

Trump administration's greatest

diplomatic victories. Nonetheless, the

ongoing genocide that appears to be

taking place in Darur will not be

stopped by the same kind of words,

condemnations, and empty statements that

the outside world has attempted so far.

The only way that it stops is by

actually interfering with the RSF's

ability to kill. And the only way to do

that is by severing the supply chain of

weapons flowing towards them by the UAE.

A combination of diplomatic pressure,

sanctions, asset freezes, and suspending

arms deals with the UAE is the only

possible way to do this. But because

there's simply so much money and

influence that the UAE wields within the

US, it's unclear if the US government

will ever be able to actually muster the

resolve to do what's necessary. I can

only hope that I'm wrong and that in the

future, even worse tragedies in Darthur

following the nightmare that's already

taking place in El Fascher can still be

prevented before it's all far too late

for everyone else who's still there.

The horrors that are currently taking

place in Darur today also didn't just

suddenly come out of nowhere. Just like

how the Holocaust didn't begin in the

1940s and the Rwanda violence didn't

begin in 1994, interethnic violence and

genocides never begin in a vacuum and

always happen after years or even

decades of building tension and warning

signs. And in Darur's case, a lot of the

origin for the violence taking place

today goes back to Muamar Gaddafi and

his influence over the region back in

the 1970s and 80s. And if there were

ever an award to be given for the most

eccentric or bizarre leader of modern

history, there's no other person who

would deserve it better than Gaddafi.

Always dripped out in his flamboyant

robes and designer sunglasses for public

appearances, Gaddafi's time in power in

Libya that lasted for more than 40 years

was full of some of international

relations most memorable moments. Like

the time at the 35th G8 summit in 2008

when he proposed the partition of

Switzerland after Swiss authorities had

arrested his son for beating his

servants at a hotel. Or the time when he

came to a UN conference in New York City

and attempted to pitch a massive tent

that he intended to reside in inside of

Central Park. Or the time he went on a

possibly drugfueled hour-long rant at

the UN in 2009 about attempting to find

JFK's real assassin and calling for the

UN headquarters to be relocated to

Libya. He also launched an invasion of

neighboring Chad to the south of Libya

in an attempt to conquer territory and

in the process banned the flames of

ethnic tension and violence in Darur in

order to achieve his own ends. among his

many other conflicts that he started

with the United States, his global

support for countless terrorist and

militant organizations that were as

ideologically diverse as the IRA and the

Japanese Red Army, and his own ultimate

war with his own people in 2011 that led

to a NATO military intervention in his

own grizzly videotaped demise. He was

throughout it all, however, potentially

the single most interesting and bizarre

leader to have ever graced the world of

geopolitics over the past half century.

And because any real in-depth video

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