Mashad Organization for Human Rights and Human Development strongly condemns the systematic and repeated attacks carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), deliberately targeting critical infrastructure and vital facilities in Sudan. Such actions constitute a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and the binding obligations enshrined in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. They further expose a deliberate strategy aimed at destroying the foundations of life and depriving civilians of their most basic rights.
The assaults on the Heglig oil fields represent a dangerous escalation in the nature of violations. These attacks not only undermine Sudan’s national economy, impoverishing and starving its people, but also directly harm the interests of the Republic of South Sudan and foreign companies that rely on Heglig as a primary route for oil exports. This renders the violations transboundary in nature, posing a threat to regional and international peace and security and jeopardizing shared interests among states.
Mashad Organization affirms that targeting economic and oil facilities is not merely a hostile act, but a fully-fledged war crime under international law. It reflects a premeditated attempt to weaponize the national economy as a battlefield, with the aim of achieving political coercion and collective starvation. This places the international community before a historic, ethical, and legal responsibility that cannot be postponed or overlooked.
Accordingly, Mashad Organization holds the RSF fully accountable for these crimes and calls on the United Nations, the African Union, and all relevant international bodies to take immediate and effective measures to halt such attacks, protect vital resources, and initiate an independent international investigation to ensure accountability and prevent impunity. The Organization further urges the international community to adopt practical steps to protect civilians, safeguard their economic resources, and prevent the recurrence of such violations that pose a direct threat to both regional and international peace and security.
The continued silence of the international community in the face of these crimes paves the way for a dangerous legal and political vacuum, implicitly legitimizing the targeting of infrastructure and shared interests. Such a trajectory will inevitably lead to catastrophic consequences extending beyond Sudan to destabilize the entire region. Urgent intervention, therefore, has become a duty that brooks no delay.
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