Hemedti.. facing Magnitsky – What is behind the news – ✍️ Muhammad Wadaa
*Congress accuses Rapid Support Forces and their commander, Hemedti, of committing serious human rights violations*
*Congressional Foreign Affairs Committee calls on President Biden to impose Magnitsky sanctions against Hemedti*
*Congress requested to monitor dozens of crimes and violations committed by Rapid Support Forces*
*The commission called his request (urgent), but gave the US president four months*
On April 19, 2024, the US Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Relations sent a letter to US President Joe Biden calling for a determination (urgently) whether punitive action should be taken under the Magnitsky Act against Sudanese Rapid Support Forces and their forces. commander, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, nicknamed (Hemedti), after accusations of involvement in “serious violations” of human rights during the war in Sudan,
The letter was signed by senior lawmakers, led by the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, and the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Michael McCaul, as well as that top Republican Sen. Jim Risch and senior Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks are calling (urgently) for a determination whether the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces and their commander, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, should be subject to sanctions for serious human rights violations, in accordance with the Global Magnitsky Act. This law was adopted in 2012 and released in 2016. It authorizes the American president to impose sanctions against… Human rights violators around the world,
The letter stated that Secretary of State Blinken announced on December 6, 2023 that the Rapid Support Forces had committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing since the start of the war on April 15, 2023, and the letter called for an investigation into the financial networks of the Rapid Support Forces and their sources of income, such as gold smuggling, and relationships with the Russian Federation and the Wagner Group, and the letter stated: “We together request a determination, pursuant to subsection 1263.(d) of the Magnitsky Accountability for Human Rights Violations Act, regarding whether the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces committed the acts described in this article of the law, which represents responsibility for extrajudicial executions, torture or other flagrant violations of internationally recognized human rights committed against individuals and flagrant violations of the rights of human rights defenders) ,
In their letter, the lawmakers said the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on September 6, 2023, on Abd al-Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, Hemedti’s brother, in addition to imposing restrictions on granting travel visas. entry to the other commander of these forces, Abd al-Rahman Jumaa stressed that “armed men wearing the uniform of the security forces” kidnapped and killed the human rights activist and lawyer Ahmed Mohamed Abdullah and his colleague Adam Omar, in Nyala, South Darfur, Khamis Abdullah Abkar. was also assassinated while in RSF custody, just hours after calling the RSF’s actions a genocide. The letter referred to other violations through threats and targeted killings, including human rights activists Muhammad Ahmed Kudiya, Khamis Arbab, Khader Suleiman Abdel Majeed, Abdel Razzaq Adam Muhammad, Tariq Hassan Yaqoub Al-Malik, Al-Sadiq Muhammad Ahmed Haroun and Dr. Adam Zakaria Ishaq, in addition to the targeting of journalists by the Rapid Support Forces and the arbitrary arrest of dozens of civilians, including political ones. activists,
Although lawmakers called their request “urgent,” they gave President Biden four months to respond to their request to take sanctions against the Rapid Support Forces and its commander Hemedti, or provide confidential or public statements to legislators. documented testimonies of the independent expert authorized by the United Nations Human Rights Council, doctors from around the world, Human Rights Watch, the list of crimes and violations included the crime of dispersal of the sit-in and (extrajudicial executions , ethnic cleansing, torture, arrest, threats…), and on documented facts and testimonies given by Foreign Minister Blinken,
Congress’s estimate of giving President Biden four months to take punitive action against the Rapid Support Forces and its commander Hemedti within four months reveals secrets related to the aim of delaying sanctions and implies an approach to direction of combat during this period. This period reflects a deliberate procrastination of the law, even if these punitive measures did not exceed a few weeks in the case of Mr. Magnitsky himself,
April 21, 2024 AD
