Malaysia urges an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, condemning RSF violence in El Fasher and calling for humanitarian corridors to aid millions displaced.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has demanded an immediate ceasefire in Sudan and called on the Rapid Support Forces to open humanitarian corridors for aid delivery to El Fasher and all affected areas in Darfur.
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said Malaysia and the world are watching in horror as the RSF continues to inflict massacres and create one of the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises.
“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,” he stated.
Mohamad stressed that the world must not allow the continued revival of the Darfur genocide, warning that history’s darkest chapters must never be repeated.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim earlier called for an immediate cessation of violence and protection of civilians under 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.
Since the RSF’s major incursion into El Fasher on October 23, the UN human rights office has received accounts of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, attacks on humanitarian workers, looting, abductions and forced displacement.
Sudan has been ravaged by civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF since April 2023, resulting in thousands of deaths and millions displaced.
According to the UN, Sudan now hosts the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement crisis, with about 14 million people displaced from a population of 51 million. – Bernama
