Al-Burhan warns countries hosting RSF leader, sets preconditions for ceasefire

PORT SUDAN – Sudan’s military ruler General Abdelfattah Al-Burhan on Sunday described countries that have hosted Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo as the latter’s “partners in crime” in the killing of the Sudanese people.

In his speech marking 68^th anniversary of Sudan’s independence, Al-Burhan said that any country that hosts a group that is hostile to the state and does not recognize the current government is considered an enemy of the state and has the right to take measures to protect its sovereignty and security.

“The only way to stop the war is for the rebel militia to leave Al-Gezira State and the rest of Sudan,” he said in a televised address on the eve of the independence anniversary.

“They must also return all looted property, including the property of citizens and government assets, and evacuate the homes of citizens and government buildings,” he added.

The Sudanese leader said that any ceasefire that does not guarantee these conditions would be worthless, as the Sudanese people would not accept to live among “these killers and criminals and those who support them.”

He added that the roadmap to peace must include these demands.

“A peace that is incomplete or that violates the dignity and will of the Sudanese people will not be acceptable,” Al-Burhan said.

“The people have spoken, and they have joined the ranks of the resistance to defeat this aggression,” he added.

He said that the anniversary of independence is being marked with the RSF continuing to “destroy the country’s infrastructure, kill citizens, loot their property, occupy their homes, rape their women, and displace them from their villages and homelands.”

He accused the RSF of genocide and ethnic cleansing with the support of “traitors of the people and power seekers,” and with the backing of some regional and world powers.