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Britain’s bloody hands: Sudan’s ongoing nightmare
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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THE Starmer government’s announcement last week of an additional £120 million in aid to Sudan was grossly inadequate, and grossly hypocritical, to cover Britain’s ongoing guilt in Gaza going back more than 125 years and extending to the present genocide by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rebels and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Sudan.
Since April 2023 alone, over 12 million people have been uprooted, half the country is acutely hungry, and famine stalks the land. In Darfur, in Khartoum, in every shattered village, people are eating animal feed to survive. Some drink hot water to silence the pain in their stomachs. Hundreds die every day, unseen and unheard.
Announcing the new aid package, Foreign Secretary David Lammy attacked global governments for “looking away” from the “brutal war” in Sudan — “two years is far too long — the brutal war in Sudan has devastated the lives of millions — and yet much of the world continues to look away” — yet the Starmer government continues to seek closer ties with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which are the main funders and armers of the RSF, and with Saudi Arabia, which backs the Sudanese Armed Forces.
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