Rapid Support Forces What?

In January, the United Arab Emirates restricted its funding of students who wanted to study in Britain, for fear that they might be radicalised by the Muslim Brotherhood. You will remember the Emiratis. The Statute Law had to be changed to stop them from buying two small circulation newspapers and a tiny circulation magazine because the writers on those moved in the same social circles as both front benches, although one of those writers has since moved to Dubai. She now files her copy from that country, where trade unions and political parties are illegal, and where she lives with the Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness, who is the Deputy Leader of Reform UK.

Throughout, though, Britain has armed the UAE while it has armed the Rapid Support Forces, who have now been credibly accused of crimes against humanity and of ethnic cleansing, deliberating targeting children and engaging in the genocide of non-Arab tribes, during the 18-month siege of El Fasher, which ended in October with the capture of that last outpost in Darfur of the rival Sudanese Armed Forces, the proxies of Saudi Arabia. Via the British-armed RSF, the UAE has taken colonial possession of much of Sudan, in a grand old tradition of Gulf potentates in East Africa. Denial is a river in Sudan. The UAE has also declared “the State of South Arabia” in South Yemen. All in all, it is pretty radical on its own. And there’s more, with a lot more to come.