French weapons used in Sudan war despite UN arms embargo - Amnesty

French subject exertion is being utilized successful Sudan's brutal civilian warfare successful usurpation of a UN arms embargo, rights organisation Amnesty International has said.

It says the Rapid Support Forces militia is utilizing vehicles successful the Darfur portion supplied by the United Arab Emirates that are fitted with French hardware arsenic it battles the army.

"Our probe shows that weaponry designed and manufactured successful France is successful progressive usage connected the battlefield successful Sudan," said Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard.

French authorities person not responded to the accusations portion the UAE has antecedently denied arming the RSF.

The Galix defence strategy - made successful France by companies KNDS and Lacroix – is utilized for onshore forces to assistance antagonistic close-range attacks.

Amnesty said the weapons could beryllium utilized to perpetrate oregon facilitate superior rights violations, adding that the French authorities indispensable guarantee the companies "immediately halt the proviso of this strategy to the UAE".

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The rights radical shared images, which it said it had verified, of destroyed vehicles connected the crushed that had the Galix strategy disposable connected them.

"If France cannot warrant done export controls, including extremity idiosyncratic certification, that arms volition not beryllium re-exported to Sudan, it should not authorise those transfers," it said.

The UN archetypal imposed an arms embargo successful Darfur successful 2004, pursuing allegations of taste cleansing against the region's non-Arabic population.

Amnesty has called for the embargo to beryllium expanded to the remainder of Sudan, and to fortify its monitoring mechanics pursuing the outbreak of a civilian warfare past year.

Amnesty has urged each countries to halt straight and indirectly supplying arms to Sudan’s warring factions.

The paramilitary RSF, led by wide Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has been astatine warfare with Sudan’s regular service nether Abdel Fattah al-Burhan since April 2023 erstwhile the 2 erstwhile allies took up arms against each different successful a ferocious powerfulness struggle.

The RSF has been accused of taste cleansing successful Darfur, which it has denied, blaming section militias.

Both parties person been accused of committing warfare crimes, with the ongoing warring leaving thousands dormant and millions displaced.