Barbara Plett-Usher
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155 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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Permanent is probably not the right word, but it does look as if it's something that is not going to go away because the interim deal between the U.S.
and Iran was supposed to open the strait to international shipping.
and then they were going to go on and talk about other issues that could end the war, sort of bring an end to the war permanently.
But instead, the Strait of Hormuz has become this major sticking point, and the dispute over it has basically stalled any progress on the deal, and it means that the ceasefire has been unraveling.
So it's not believed at this point yet anyway that either side wants to return to a full-scale war.
But this issue, this control of the Strait, this freedom of shipping through it and so on is just very crucial to both.
So what we have now is continued escalation.
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I think this report essentially strengthens the evidence we already had about mass atrocities being committed in al-Fasher, not just when the RSF took it over and captured it last October, but also in the siege of the city and the campaign in the surrounding areas.
So Amnesty interviewed more than 200 survivors.
They talked about witnessing mass killings, detentions, beatings, sexual violence.
the kind of thing that we have heard before.
Amnesty very much emphasized that there was an ethnic element to this.
The armed groups that were defending the city came from the local Zagawa tribe, and so the RSF seems to have targeted the Zagawa civilians just as it did the fighters.
One thing that struck me is that they said that the children...
were not collateral damage of the violence.
There were cases of them being deliberately targeted, so they mentioned specifically shootings, abductions in particular, also rape.
And they said that they had identified RSF commanders who had carried out violations of international law and they urged accountability.
I suppose a takeaway that I had was, as the evidence mounts, calls for accountability grow, and yet the violence is still being...
committed with impunity, which it is.
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