Biden admin slammed for ‘waiting’ to declare genocide in Sudan
Action rather than rhetoric would have saved more lives says Senate Foreign Relations Chairman
Over half of Sudan’s population said to be facing acute hunger amid brutal civil war.
Thousands of refugees have fled to camps in Kassala in eastern Sudan. (Credit: Mercy Corps)
The Biden administration recently declared members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), committed genocide in Sudan. Pictured: U.S. President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.)
Fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Sudanese rebel group active in Sudan's Darfur State which supports army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, attend a graduation ceremony in the southeastern Gedaref state on March 28, 2024. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images.)
People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023. The U.N. human rights office said in a new report on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, that scores of people, including children, have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in the ongoing conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes. (AP Photo, File)
The new Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)
Women from El Geneina, West Darfur, weep after receiving news of their missing relatives in Ardamata, as they waited for them in Adre, Chad, November 7, 2023. Ardamata was the latest site of an ethnic purge led by the RSF and allied Arab militias against the ethnic African Masalit tribe. (Reuters/El Tayeb Siddig. )