In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
“Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory.” — Qur’an, 22:39.
Continuing its crimes against the Sudanese people and the Sudanese state since the outbreak of the war on 15 April 2023, the terrorist militia known as the Rapid Support Forces persists in committing abuses against unarmed civilians.
This criminal militia did not confine its atrocities to the killing of our Masalit people in Geneina and burying them alive, or to the mass killings in Jazirah and Khartoum and across the country. It now carries out the most brutal forms of murder and forced displacement against our people in El Fasher in massacres unprecedented in history, following a year-and-a-half of siege and starvation.
The Sudanese-American Friendship Association hereby expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of these heinous acts and the war crimes perpetrated against our people throughout Sudan.
While we hold the rebel militia accountable for these crimes, we also hold to account certain Sudanese political forces that supported them and some states that back them. We affirm that all honorable and upright Sudanese stand with their army and popular resistance in this existential struggle. The Association stands at the heart of this struggle until victory, God willing.
We also deplore the disturbing silence of Western states, including the United States of America, regarding these crimes. We strongly support calls to halt support for the militia and to designate it as a terrorist organization. At the forefront of these calls are the statements made by Mr. Jim Risch, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his proposed legislation to classify the Rapid Support Forces as a terrorist organization and the measures that classification would entail.
While we commend this initiative, we call on U.S. legislators and civil society organizations to increase pressure on the U.S. administration to use its influence to stop these massacres, to lift the cover from states and organizations that support the militia, to hold them accountable, and to ensure redress for all Sudanese, both state and citizen. We reaffirm our right in Sudan to defend our land and to seek retribution for all martyrs and victims.
In the same vein, we emphasize our commitment to engage with all stakeholders — civil society organizations in Sudan, state institutions, and actors in the United States who maintain ties with the Association — to do everything possible to stop these crimes and to bring their perpetrators to trial.
We ask God to grant victory to our armed forces, to receive our martyrs, and to grant us an honorable victory.
29 October 2025
Sudanese-American Friendship Association.