Analyst: US Condemning Darfur Atrocities Welcomed, Serious Measures Needed [3:26]
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The United States has condemned human rights violations committed in Sudan’s two-month-old violence, particularly reports of sexual violence and targeting of civilians along ethnic lines by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in West Darfur State. Thursday's statement by the U.S. Department of State came a day after the violence in West Darfur culminated in the dramatic kidnapping and killing of West Darfur State governor, Khamis Abdullah Abbkar, reportedly by RSF soldiers and allied Arab militias. VOA's Nabeel Biajo reached Samah Salman, strategic analyst and president of the U.S.-Educated Sudanese Association, to discuss the significance of the statement.