Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, announced the determination yesterday while imposing sanctions on the RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo - known as Hemedti - for his role in what he described as "systematic atrocities", many perpetrated in West Darfur.
While both the RSF and rival Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have been accused of committing war crimes during the conflict, which broke out in 2023 and has claimed tens of thousands of lives, Blinken detailed a pattern of systematic ethnic violence in which RSF forces had killed civilians as they tried to flee and blocked access to essential supplies.
Blinken said the state department had conducted months of deliberation over the genocide designation. "Based on this information, I have now concluded that members of the RSF and allied militias have committed genocide in Sudan," he said.
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