WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- Sen. Chuck Grassley issued text of the following remark:
Since 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a civil war between the Sudanese armed forces under the government of that country and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, it's called, it's termed in the paper and reports regularly as Rapid Support Forces as "RSF."
After an 18-month siege of El-Fasher in the Darfur region, RSF forces took control, and the Sudanese armed forces retreated.
Now, the RSF controls roughly half of the country of Sudan.
Following the violent takeover of El-Fasher, there have been reports of mass killings, reports of executions and reports of sexual violence.
According to the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University, satellite imagery ...