The European Union says it is imposing sanctions on Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blamed for atrocities in the Sudanese conflict.
Dagalo’s RSF has been accused of carrying out serious human rights violations in the Darfur region during the fall of El Fasher from the Sudanese Armed Forces under his archrival Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The sanctions on Dagalo include an asset freeze and a travel ban for what the EU called his “pivotal role” in the RSF’s violence in Darfur, targeting civilians for execution.
Dagalo personally spuervised operations across the region’s five states, according to evidence the EU are relying upon from the U.N. Panel of Experts on Sudan.
According to the panel Dagalo directed the raids that caused the mass execution in October this year of civilians, including those fleeing or hiding in El Fasher, the last remaining stronghold of the Sudanese army which it lost to the RSF last month.
The atrocities include mass executions, targeted killings of civilians fleeing the violence and unprovoked raids on medical facilities.
Thousands had died and millions of people most civilians have fled their homes since Sudan descended into civil war in April 2023, between SNA-backed Burhan and Dagalo’s RSF.
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