Islamophobia > A poorly defined word that does more harm than good

 

UK: Sikh group campaigns against

‘flawed’ definition of ‘Islamophobia’

Oct 3, 2024 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

“If the government chooses to incorporate this definition into law, then discussing the history of the Indian subcontinent, and the persecution of religious minorities across the world today, in countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria will be absurdly equated to ‘racism.'”

Indeed. This initiative is already well underway. I’m Exhibit A.

Boost for British Sikh group’s campaign against

‘flawed’ definition of Islamophobia

by Aditi Khanna, PTI, September 29, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

London, Sep 29 (PTI) A British Sikh organisation campaigning against a “flawed” definition of Islamophobia adopted by the Labour Party a few years ago being made legal has received a boost as the government admitted the proposal would not be in line with the UK’s Equality Act.

The Network of Sikh Organisations (NSO) had written to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and the government Faith Minister Lord Wajid Khan earlier this month to caution that the proposed definition would jeopardise even a factual discussion of the history of the Indian subcontinent.

OMG! Britain's Faith Minister's name is Wajid Khan!!!! Has the Church of England spoken out about this? Does AB of Canterbury, Justin Welby, think this is a good idea?

Back in 2018, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims had defined Islamophobia as a “type of racism” that targets expressions of Muslimness.

“As you have mentioned, the definition proposed by the APPG is not in line with the Equality Act 2010, which defines race in terms of colour, nationality and national or ethnic origins,” reads Lords Khan’s reply to the NSO released this week….

In its letter, the NSO had warned that the adoption of a “contested definition” into law would have serious implications on “free speech, not least the ability to discuss historical truths”. It also feared that “seminal moments” in Sikh history would be “censored” and considered “racist”.

“If the government chooses to incorporate this definition into law, then discussing the history of the Indian subcontinent, and the persecution of religious minorities across the world today, in countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria will be absurdly equated to ‘racism’. This would be counterproductive, cause disquiet and perversely persecute truth tellers,” the NSO noted….

“The recent violent disorder exposed deep weaknesses in our society and, as you have mentioned, much of the violence was rooted in anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hatred… The government will never tolerate those who seek to sow divisions and wreak intimidation across our communities, and we remain absolutely committed to protecting the right of individuals to freely practice their religion at their chosen place of worship,” Lord Khan added in his reply to NSO.

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Islamic Insanity > We Declare War on all Christians!

 

ISIS Mozambique: ‘We declare war on all Christians in the world, either to be a Muslim or paying jizya’

FEB 20, 2024 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

“Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)

Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) Reportedly Urges Christians

To Convert, Pay Jizyah, Or Be Killed, 

Calls On Muslims To Help Group ‘Defend Islam'

MEMRI, February 14, 2024:

The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI’s Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here. 

On February 12, 2024, the pro-Islamic State (ISIS) “Bariqah” Telegram channel posted a photo and a video, reporting that a passenger bus was shot at in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, killing the driver, and that the attackers left notes for the passengers.[1]

The photo shows the hand-written notes, one in English and the other in Portuguese, which state they are from “the government of the Islamic State of Mozambique”: “We declare war on all Christians in the world for three things, either to be a Muslim or paying jizyah [a poll tax which the Quran mandates non-Muslims to pay their Muslim rulers]. If you haven’t paid jizyah it’s a war until [the end of the] earth. To Muslims we announce peace to all the world. Let’s work together to defend the religion of Allah together. If you refuse [to convert to Islam] then you will pay jizyah and if you refuse to pay jizyah you will be killed.”…

This may seem like an ad hoc message from an insignificant group of radical Muslims, but, in reality, it represents the ideology of most radicalized Muslims which number in the hundreds of millions.

While Deep State is doing its absolute best to keep wars and the treat of wars with Russia and China going, the real danger for WWIII comes from Islam. NATO, and America's madness with Russia will simply ensure that the bear is on the side of Islam when it all blows up. How stupid can we be?

 

From Muslim, to Atheist, to Christian - The Brilliant Ayaan Hirsi Ali reveals her journey

 

One of the great heroes of the Truth, just got even greater:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Why I Am Now a Christian I was born a Muslim in Somalia. Then I became an atheist. But secular tools alone can’t equip us for civilizational war. AYAAN HIRSI ALI NOV 14 ∙ GUEST POST (Photo by Christian Marquardt/Getty Images) Bari Weiss:  One of the biggest stories of the past few days didn’t happen in Washington or Gaza or Tehran, but was an invisible change that happened inside the heart and mind of one woman: Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ayaan is many things: she is a refugee from Somalia, where she was the victim of female genital mutilation; she was a Dutch politician whose criticism of Islam, the religion she was raised in, led to death threats.  Theo van Gogh, her collaborator on Submission, a film about Islam, was murdered in the streets of Amsterdam. The killer left a note stabbed into his body warning that Ayaan would be next.  A normal person would have shut up. But Ayaan is not normal. She wrote a memoir, Infidel. She became a mother. She became an American. And she never, ever quieted her voice.  It is for all of these reasons and many more that Ayaan is one of the great heroes of our time. She has also been, since the early 2000s, among the most prominent atheists in the world. Or at least she was until late last week, when she announced in the pages of UnHerd that she has converted to Christianity.  The Egyptian intellectual Hussein Aboubakr Mansour wrote in reaction to the news that “Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s announcement of embracing Christianity is one of the biggest pivotal moments culturally since 9/11 and I don’t know how many people actually realize that. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was the poster child of what the New Atheists promised Islam. Not just is she saying that she is not certain about that promise anymore, she is saying she isn’t even certain about the promise of the future the New Atheists could afford themselves. Mansour continued: “As Western elites ditched Ayaan for the Islamists, Ayaan turned to the ancient fort of Christianity for a last escape.” Ayaan’s decision to convert prompts a series of very big questions that go to the heart of the challenges facing the West at present: Can religion be justified on pragmatic grounds, or does it require sincere faith? Is an increasingly secular West doomed to lose the civilizational war we find ourselves in? Can Christianity actually serve as a unifying force in that fight? And if religion won’t unite us, what else might? For today, we wanted to share her essay with you. And we are grateful to our friends at UnHerd for allowing us to reprint it. —BW  Click on the sentence below to go to Bari Weiss' blog to read the brilliant column by Ayaan Hirsi Ali... In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I Am Not a Christian.” ================================================

Islam - Europe > Mayor of London worries for Palestinians not UK's allies; Islamic Hysteria in Cannes after prayers interrupted

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Scotland's First Minister's wife made it clear that they are antisemitic and pro-terrrorist Hamas. The UK's other Islamic leader is the Mayor of London. He too, is against the UK's ally Israel. With such high profile Muslims in position in the UK, how long will it be before a Muslim is Prime Minister, and what will the consequences be for Israel when that happens?

Sadiq Khan Makes Clear Which Side He Is On

OCT 17, 2023 10:00 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD

In many cities around the world, the blue-and-white colors of the Israeli flag, or the flag itself, have been projected onto major buildings in an outward and visible show of sympathy and solidarity: the White House in Washington, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Canadian Parliament’s Peace Tower in Ottawa, the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Sydney Opera House and the Federal Parliament House, the Bulgarian Parliament, the Berlaymont, which houses the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, and many others have been enrolled in the effort. And in London, the Israeli flag was projected onto both the Parliament building and on 10 Downing Street. But the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, chose not to light up any of the buildings under his control. In fact, he has been most concerned not about the atrocities inflicted on Israeli men, women and, especially, children, but about Israel’s determination to wipe out, as it must, the terror group Hamas.

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Here is what he said on a visit to the London office of Medical Aid for Palestinians: 

Sadiq Khan fears a ‘disproportionate’ Israeli response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks

could lead to ‘inexplicable suffering’ in Gaza

It seems he's oblivious to the inexplicable suffering of the Jews by Hamas' disproportionate attack on Israel. Does he think their attack was justified? Does he think Islam has the right to practice brutal, barbaric genocide? Is he refraining from criticizing Hamas because that would be criticizing Islam?

by Oliver Price, Daily Mail, October 13, 2023:

The Mayor of London has said he fears a ‘disproportionate’ response by Israel to the ‘terrorist’ attacks by Hamas could lead to ‘inexplicable suffering’ in Gaza.

What exactly, in Sadiq Khan’s view, would be a “proportionate” response to the decapitation of dozens of babies, the murders of hundreds of children, the rape and murder of young girls, the torture and murder, sometimes by beheading, of 280 IDF soldiers, the kidnapping of Holocaust survivors in wheelchairs? Last I looked, Israel had not decapitated anyone, not a single child in Gaza was deliberately targeted, no Palestinian girls were raped or murdered, and the IDF, in fact, has been making heroic efforts to warn civilians away from places it is about to target, by messaging, telephoning, and using the “knock-on-the-roof” technique. Now it has urged Gazan civilians to move from the northern part of the Strip to the south, in order to avoid being caught in the fighting that will follow the IDF’s imminent invasion. It is Israel that is trying to save civilian lives, and Hamas, by insisting that they stay put in the north, that is trying to endanger them.

Sadiq Khan can hardly be unaware of that longstanding practice by the IDF. We also know that while Israel has dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza, to destroy weapons hideouts, rocket launchers, command-and-control centers, and the offices of Hamas leaders, only 1417 Gazans have died so far, as of Oct. 14, which means that for every four bombs the IAF drops, only one Gazan is killed — an astounding figure that testifies to the care the IAF takes to minimize casualties through its multifaceted system of warnings. And while we know that 85% of the Israelis who were murdered by Hamas were civilians, we don’t know as yet how many of the Gazans killed were civilians. I doubt, judging by the results of the IAF’s previous bombings in the Strip, that more than a quarter of the Gazans killed in this war so far have been civilians. Of course Hamas lies about its casualties. It always has done so, inflating the numbers of women and children killed, just as it prepares Palestinian families to cry on camera, and provides them with scripts of what to say to foreign journalists. That will all be investigated once the war is over, and Hamas as a military force is crushed. What Sadiq Khan should have said, under the circumstances, is that “I am aware of the enormous efforts Israel makes to minimize civilian casualties and I know that will continue in the coming days” instead of scolding the Jewish state in such an intolerable manner.

Sadiq Khan also called for the Israeli government to reconsider blocking off food, water and electricity to the region in response to the killings and kidnappings by the militant group, which led to the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis [now 1,300] last weekend.

Israel is hoping to bring an end to this war to crush Hamas as quickly as possible, with as little loss of civilian life as possible. The Jewish state is under no obligation to supply anything at all to the people of Gaza, who have produced Hamas, who join Hamas, who support Hamas even if they are not members. The Gazans now have one plant that generates electricity, and have relied on Israel — their mortal enemy, whom they are determined to destroy — to supply the rest of its electricity needs. Israel was willing to do this in the past, but not now, in the middle of a war, and especially not after the atrocities visited upon its people by Hamas. The Gazans could by now have had several electricity plants built and in operation, had Hamas not chosen instead to spend billions on terror tunnels and weapons, and on the luxurious lives of its thieving leaders.

Why should Israel be expected to supply its enemies with any resources? Would the Americans have delivered food and water to Nazi Germany, or to militarist Japan, during World War II? Would we have supplied electricity, food, or fuel to those living in the Islamic State? Gaza has the coastal aquifer to supply some water, and it is not completely, as Sadiq Khan claims, “without water.” Gaza’s chronic lack of water is a result of three things: weak resource management, rapid population growth, and a failure to pay for WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) infrastructure. Is Israel at fault if Gazans have so many children, and that staggering increase in population requires more water? Is Israel to blame for the mismanagement of water resources by Hamas, including its allowing raw sewage to flow, untreated, into the sea? Or should we blame Israel for the billions of dollars in aid siphoned off by a handful of Hamas leaders, with five billion dollars being stolen by just two of them, Khaled Meshaal and Mousa Abu Marzouk? Did Israel force Hamas to spend so much money on war-making rather than on the husbanding and production of water? Hasn’t Israel in the past offered to share with the Palestinians its own advances in drip irrigation, and the Watergen technology that allows water to be produced from the ambient air?

Cannes: A (Muslim) Man Armed with a Knife Arrested After

Attempting to Attack the Manager of an Automotive Garage

translated from “Cannes: Un Homme Armé d’un Couteau Interpellé Après Avoir Tenté de S’en Prendre au Gérant d’un Garage Automobile,” 

by Mélanie Bertrand, Claudia Olivier, and Alexandra Gonzalez, with Juliette Vignaud, BFMTV, October 18, 2023 

A man with a knife was arrested this Wednesday, October 18, shortly before 7 p.m., in Cannes, announced Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.

According to our information from a police source, the man entered a room in the technical inspection center of a car garage before unfolding a carpet to say a Muslim prayer.

Surprised and interrupted by the manager, he then shouted “Allahu Akbar” and showed a knife. According to his account given to the police, the man tried to punch him in the abdomen. The manager took refuge in a room in his establishment before calling for help, the Grasse public prosecutor’s office told BFM Nice Côte d’Azur.

The man was finally arrested, a few minutes later, by Bac police officers, his knife attached to his belt. He was going up the stairs of a nearby mosque, indicates a police source. An investigation was opened into charges of advocating terrorism and gun violence.

Is interrupting Muslim prayers sufficient enough to get you killed? It takes alarmingly little to provoke a Muslim to Islamic hysteria.

This is the third story today from the Meditterranean coast of France. The other two are on my other blog at: Islam - Europe > Two Muslims threaten children in the Marseille area

Islam - Africa > Seminary Student Immolated in Nigeria; Nigeria's Christian Genocide spreads south; UN Sudan Chief resigns as civilians bombed; Predicts full-scale civil war

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Seminary Student Burned to Death in Terrorist Attack in Nigeria

Morning Star News, September 8, 2023:

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Assailants in an area of Nigeria where Fulani terrorists have operated freely burned a Catholic seminary student to death Thursday night (Sept. 7) in a failed kidnapping attempt, sources said.

In an attack at about 8 p.m. on the rectory of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church in Fadan Kamantan, in southern Kaduna state, under the Kafanchan Diocese, terrorists unable to enter the home of the parish priest. They sought to kidnap instead set it on fire, according to news outlet ACI Africa, citing an interview by Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi of Kafanchan with charity Aid to the Church in Need.

The priest, the Rev. Emmanuel Okolo, and his assistant managed to escape, but the fire killed seminary student Na’aman Danlami, 25, Kundi reportedly said.

An area priest who had taught Danlami at the St. Albert Institute, the Rev. Williams Kaura Abba, asked for prayer in a text message to Morning Star News.

“The bandits went for a kidnapping spree,” Abba said. “Two priests in the burnt house were able to escape. The seminarian was trapped. The bandits set the rectory ablaze. Na’aman Danlami, the seminarian, died of asphyxiation and suffered severe burns. May God rest the soul of this martyr.”…

The Rev. John Hayab, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State Chapter, lamented lack of security in the area.

“It is sad that killings and this type of evil against Christians are still going on in spite of our appeal and pleading to Nigerian government to take measures towards ending these attacks,” Hayab said.

Four Catholic priests were killed in Nigeria in 2022 and 28 were kidnapped, while so far this year 14 Catholic clergymen have been abducted, according to Aid to the Church in Need….

Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.

Terrorists Kill Christian Couple in Taraba State, Nigeria

Morning Star News, September 10, 2023:

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Terrorists entering a town in Taraba state, Nigeria at about 2 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 10) killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six people, sources said.

“Six Christians were kidnapped by terrorists in the Mile Six area of Jalingo,” area resident Emmanuel Moses told Morning Star News in a text message. “These terrorists, too, killed two Christians, one Balanko Alex and his wife, while many other Christians were injured during the attack.”

John Hussaini, another resident of the area, stated the same information, adding that on Friday (Sept. 8) two other Christians were kidnapped on Takum Road between Manya and Gangum….

Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report. It also led the world in Christians abducted (4,726), sexually assaulted or harassed, forcibly married or physically or mentally abused, and it had the most homes and businesses attacked for faith-based reasons. As in the previous year, Nigeria had the second most church attacks and internally displaced people.

In the 2023 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria jumped to sixth place, its highest ranking ever, from No. 7 the previous year.

“Militants from the Fulani, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and others conduct raids on Christian communities, killing, maiming, raping and kidnapping for ransom or sexual slavery,” the WWL report noted. “This year has also seen this violence spill over into the Christian-majority south of the nation… Nigeria’s government continues to deny this is religious persecution, so violations of Christians’ rights are carried out with impunity.”…

Air strikes kill dozens in Darfur as UN's Sudan chief resigns

An air raid on Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region killed at least 40 civilians Wednesday, according to a medical source, as the head of the UN mission to the country resigned.

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Volker Perthes, who has been "persona non grata" by Sudanese authorities since June, warned the United Nations Security Council again, in his final briefing before leaving the post, that Sudan's war risks further deterioration.

"Forty civilians have been killed in an air strike that hit two markets and a number of the city's neighbourhoods," the medical source told AFP from a hospital in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. The source asked for anonymity out of security concerns.

Since battles began on April 15 between the regular army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by Burhan's former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, nearly 7,500 people have been killed, according to a conservative estimate from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.

More than five million people have been uprooted, including one million who fled across borders, according to UN figures.

Intensified fighting 

Witnesses in Nyala had reported earlier on Wednesday air strikes falling on two markets and causing civilian casualties in Sudan's second-biggest city.

The western region of Darfur -- the size of France and home to a quarter of Sudan's population -- had already seen some of the war's worst unrest before violence intensified last month.

Over 10 days in August, more than 50,000 people fled the city, according to the UN.

In early September, those who remained looked up to see a new escalation: air force fighter jets -- whose strikes have been largely limited to the capital Khartoum -- flying overhead.

Their bombs struck both RSF bases and the residential neighbourhoods they inhabit, witnesses told AFP.

Read moreSudanese leader’s diplomatic tour renews hopes for a peace deal

The army maintains control of the skies, and has been accused of repeated indiscriminate shelling of residential areas where paramilitaries have embedded themselves, including by evicting families and taking over homes.

Positioning themselves in civilian occupied neighbourhoods and buildings is "a potential violation of the Geneva Conventions," the US-supported Sudan Conflict Observatory has said.

It added that the Sudanese Armed Forces "would still be required to ensure that civilian harm is minimised regardless of whether a target has been made a legitimate military target."

Wednesday's attack came a day after a medical source reported 17 civilians killed in Khartoum's sister city of Omdurman. Witnesses described that attack as RSF shelling.

On Sunday, at least 51 people were killed and dozens wounded in air strikes on southern Khartoum, according to UN human rights chief Volker Turk.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called it "the deadliest weekend witnessed by our teams in Khartoum since the beginning of the  conflict, five months ago."

Call for accountability 

In the war's early months, diplomatic efforts repeatedly failed to establish a sustained ceasefire and were instead "often used for repositioning and resupply" by both parties, Perthes told the Security Council.

Perthes has been repeatedly accused by Burhan and his allies of bias towards the RSF.

He has been persona non grata since he denounced possible "crimes against humanity" in Darfur.

The government repeatedly called for Perthes's dismissal, while UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his support for the envoy.

On Wednesday Guterres accepted the resignation of Perthes, saying "he has very strong reasons."

A UN team remains in Port Sudan, a coastal city spared the fighting.

"I am grateful to the Secretary-General for that opportunity and for his confidence in me, but I have asked him to relieve me of this duty," Perthes said, warning that the conflict "could be morphing into a full-scale civil war."

He added that the warring parties "cannot operate with impunity, and there will be accountability for the crimes committed."

While the deadly air strikes fell on Darfur Wednesday, witnesses in the capital also reported "columns of smoke rising" in central Khartoum as armed forces fighter jets "targeted RSF bases" in that area.

Until late last month, Burhan had been holed up in army headquarters, under siege by the RSF.

From his new base in Port Sudan, he has since visited Egypt, South Sudan, Qatar and Eritrea in what analysts say is a diplomatic push to burnish his credentials in the event of negotiations to end the war.

Burhan arrived in Turkey on Wednesday for his fifth trip abroad since late August, vying for legitimacy in his power struggle with Daglo.

Burhan has been de facto head of state since he led a 2021 coup in collaboration with the RSF's Daglo. 

The army chief held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on "the course of bilateral relations and advancing the prospects for joint cooperation" between the two countries, according to Sudan's ruling Sovereign Council.

(AFP)

Sudan conflict could become 'full-scale civil war,'

U.N. envoy warns as he resigns

By Darryl Coote

Volker Perthes, the United Nations special envoy to Sudan, announces his resignation Wednesday during a speech to the U.N. Security Council. Photo by Loey Felipe/Unite Nations/UPI/X

Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The five-month-old bloody conflict in Sudan shows no sign of abating and could be "morphing into a full-scale civil war," the United Nations envoy to the northeast African country said during a speech to the Security Council in which he announced his resignation.

Volker Perthes has served as the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sudan since early 2021, but was labeled persona non grata by Sudan's foreign ministry in June, seemingly on accusations of stoking the conflict, which erupted mid-April between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its breakaway Rapid Support Forces.

Days before being barred from the country, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "shocked" by a letter he had received from Sudan's military leader Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Burhan that reportedly called for Perthes to be removed.

In his speech before the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, Perthes offered no reason for stepping down but said it had been "a privilege" to serve as Guterres' representative.

During a press conference later Wednesday, Guterres said he had accepted Perthes' resignation.

"He has very strong reasons to resign and I have to respect his will and accept his resignation," the U.N. chief said.

Guterres has previously voiced support for Perthes, and said in response to al-Burhan's letter sent in May that he is "proud of the work done" by the German official and "reaffirms his full confidence in his special representative."

For years, Sudan had teetered on the precipice of war following the ousting of the country's former three-decade dictator government of President Omar al-Bashir in a civilian-backed coup in 2019.

Amid its crawl toward civil rule, al-Burhan and his deputy, RSF head Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, executed another coup but infighting over control of the government turned into bloodshed on April 15.

During his speech to the council Wednesday, Perthes said with neither side appearing close to a military victory, there are no signs of the conflict coming to an end, with fierce fighting continuing in the capital of Khartoum where on Sunday a SAF airstrike killed at least 43 people.

At least 5,000 people have been killed in the fighting and more than 12,000 injured, but Perthes said Wednesday that the actual numbers are likely much higher.

With fighting continuing in the capital, violence worsening in Darfur, civilians being targeted due to their ethnicity, tensions deepening in the relatively calm east of the country and former regime elements calling for the continuation of the war, Perthes said these developments add to "the risk of a fragmentation of the country.

"What started as a conflict between two military formations could be morphing into a full-scale civil war," he said

"Each side is still waiting for the other side to be weakened into surrender. This is futile," he said. "The war is destroying the lives of the Sudanese men and women, violating their basic rights and depriving them of the future they deserve.

He continued that the conflict is leaving a "tragic legacy" of human rights abuses committed by both sides, including indiscriminate killings by the SAF and widespread acts of sexual violence, lootings and killings in areas controlled by the RSF, while both are arbitrarily arresting, detaining and torturing civilians

"We need to impress on the warring parties that they cannot operate with impunity, and there will be accountability for the crimes committed," he said

Edem Wosornu, director for operations and advocacy of the United Nations office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told the council that the number of displaced in Sudan now stands at more than 5 million, equalling 1 million people newly displaced every month

Of those, 1 million have fled across borders into neighboring countries

The fighting, she said, has also put civilians at risk due to an "almost complete breakdown" of the healthcare system, which is "making it almost impossible to control increasing outbreaks of diseases."

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