Security Council Findings on the Role of the UAE and the UK in the Sudanese Genocide

TEHRAN (Defapress) - Sources close to the UN Security Council report the discovery of military equipment manufactured by the UK in the Sudanese civil war. These sources emphasize that the Sudanese rebels - known as the Rapid Support Forces - committed genocide using the weapons of English.

Among the equipment discovered are targeting systems, light weapons, and English-made engines for armored vehicles, which have played a significant role in contributing to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

According to the report, English weapons were purchased from the UK by the UAE, the main sponsor of the crisis, and were provided to the rebels accused of genocide.

English-made engines, specially designed for a type of Emirati-made armored vehicle, are constantly being exported to Sudan. The UN Security Council has found further evidence that these vehicles have also been used in the civil wars in Libya and Yemen, violating the body’s arms embargo.

Over the past 3 years, at least 150,000 people have been killed in the civil war between the Sudanese army and Emirati-backed rebels, more than 12 million have been displaced, and nearly 25 million are facing severe hunger.

Documents on UK military equipment discovered in Sudan were presented to the Security Council in two separate cases in June 2024 and March 2025, leaving no doubt about the support of the UK and the UAE for the genocide in this African country.

The continued export of English military equipment to the UAE, despite the risk of its use in Sudan’s devastating war, has raised serious concerns in the international community.

“English law and international treaties clearly oblige the government to revoke arms export licenses if there is a risk of the equipment being diverted or used for war crimes,” said Mike Lewis, a researcher and former member of the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan. These licenses should have been revoked before the publication of new information about the discovery of British-made equipment in Sudan.

Abdallah Idriss Abugarda, president of the Darfur Diaspora Association in the UK, called for an urgent investigation into the matter, saying: “The international community must urgently establish how the arms transfers were carried out and ensure that no British technology or weapons contributed to the suffering of the innocent people of Sudan and prevent further complicity in these crimes.”

Images in the files, seen by UN diplomats, show UK weapons being used extensively by rebels in Khartoum. The weapons bear labels indicating they were manufactured by Militek in Wales.

The English government has been licensing Militec products to the UAE since 2013. The new information shows that between January 2015 and September 2024, the UK government issued 26 licenses for permanent exports of military equipment to the UAE. 3 years ago, the UK also licensed the export of night vision cameras to an Emirati company that was later used by Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

Responding to complaints about its involvement in the Sudanese genocide, an English Foreign Office spokesman said, with the same deceit and hypocrisy as always, “The UK has one of the most transparent and stringent export control systems in the world, and all export licenses are assessed against the risk of consumer diversion or misuse. We expect all countries to abide by their obligations under UN sanctions regimes.”

The UN Security Council had previously announced that the UAE had supplied “Nimr” armored vehicles to rebel militias in Libya in 2013. The UK government has always been aware of the UAE’s arming of rebels in Libya and Sudan.