🚨 REPORT | Britain ignored more than two years of intelligence warning of a “genocidal” massacre in Sudan’s El Fasher to protect its relationship with the United Arab Emirates, leading war crimes investigator Nathaniel Raymond, head of Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, has told Parliament in a written statement, the Telegraph reports. Key Details: 🔸Raymond testified to the House of Commons International Development Committee that his team gave UK officials real-time intelligence as the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces besieged the city, which fell last October. 🔸 He said officials “prioritized” Britain’s “economic, security, and diplomatic relationships with the UAE above preventing the intentional starvation, forced displacement, and the genocidal slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians.” 🔸 Yale’s analysis estimates at least 60,000 people may have been killed within weeks of the city’s fall, a toll Raymond noted was about six times that of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. 🔸 As the UN Security Council “penholder” leading on Sudan, Britain had “more than sufficient” intelligence to act, he said, including sanctioning UAE officials to cut “the clandestine UAE pipeline of advanced weaponry flowing to the RSF.” 🔸 Raymond also said that in May 2024, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials asked his university lab, rather than British intelligence, to publicly release intercepted phone data linking the UAE to the RSF, because Britain faced “significant private pressure” from Abu Dhabi. 🔸 He explained that the RSF briefly paused its assault after a UN resolution, on Abu Dhabi’s instruction, to gauge whether there would be consequences. When the UAE faced no further consequences, the attack resumed. The failure, he said, spanned two governments, covering Foreign Secretaries David Cameron, David Lammy, and Yvette Cooper. 🔗 The full report is linked below.