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Speaking before parliament's International Development Committee on Tuesday, rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond says the UK failed to act to avoid a massacre in Sudan’s el-Fasher due to political pressure from the UAE and a desire to maintain good relations with Abu Dhabi.

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🇸🇩🇬🇧THREAD: Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health, testifying before the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee on the government’s failure to act on intelligence and genocide warnings in Sudan: 1/ 🎥 Raymond is asked whether the FCDO did everything possible to prevent the genocide. He answered no — political will was blocked by the UK's unwillingness to confront the UAE, the primary military enabler of the RSF’s massacre in El-Fasher in October 2025. CHAIR: So to summarize, your evidence is indicating that FCDO decided to take the relationship with the UAE over calling out the mass atrocities that you could document were going on. RAYMOND: 100% CHAIR: Why? RAYMOND: Because it was easier. Nathaniel Raymond | Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH
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🇸🇩🇬🇧THREAD: Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health, testifying before the UK Parliament’s International Development Committee on the government’s failure to act on intelligence and genocide warnings in Sudan: 1/ 🎥 Raymond is asked whether the FCDO did everything possible to prevent the genocide. He answered no — political will was blocked by the UK's unwillingness to confront the UAE, the primary military enabler of the RSF’s massacre in El-Fasher in October 2025. CHAIR: So to summarize, your evidence is indicating that FCDO decided to take the relationship with the UAE over calling out the mass atrocities that you could document were going on. RAYMOND: 100% CHAIR: Why? RAYMOND: Because it was easier. Nathaniel Raymond | Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH

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