Stop Arming UAE - Support Peace in Sudan

Sudan’s civilians are being slaughtered while foreign weapons, financing, technology, and logistical networks continue fueling the war. Congress must stop treating the states enabling these atrocities as legitimate security partners. I demand that Congress use its legislative, appropriations, oversight, sanctions, and war-powers authorities to implement the measures called for by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: 1. Impose a comprehensive arms embargo on ALL of Sudan. Demand the UN Security Council expand the existing Darfur embargo to prohibit weapons, drones, ammunition, spare parts, technical services, training, and other military support to every party to the conflict nationwide. 2. Cut off the enablers. Immediately end U.S. arms sales, military assistance, training, intelligence sharing, logistical support, defense-industrial cooperation, joint military programs, and other security cooperation with the United Arab Emirates and any other government supplying or materially enabling forces committing serious violations of international law. Suspend the U.S.-UAE Major Defense Partnership and block pending transfers. 3. Follow the money and weapons. Require investigations into the companies, financiers, brokers, transport networks, aircraft, exporters, intermediaries, and foreign governments facilitating arms or mercenary flows into Sudan. Preserve supply records and technical data, trace weapons to their origin, and establish the full chain of responsibility. 4. Sanction those responsible. Impose asset freezes, travel bans, export restrictions, and other targeted sanctions on commanders, officials, intermediaries, financiers, companies, and networks responsible for atrocities or violations of the arms embargo. 5. Pursue individual and command accountability. Support independent investigations into attacks on civilians, including the targets selected, weapons used, orders given, precautions taken, looting, destruction, and the responsibility of both direct perpetrators and commanders. 6. Expand ICC jurisdiction. Direct the United States to support a UN Security Council referral of the situation throughout Sudan—not only Darfur—to the International Criminal Court, and fully cooperate with investigations and enforcement of resulting arrest warrants. 7. Preserve the evidence. Support and fund the UN Fact-Finding Mission and OHCHR efforts to preserve physical and digital evidence, identify perpetrators and command structures, and prepare cases for national and international prosecution. 8. Pursue universal jurisdiction. Require U.S. authorities to investigate suspected war criminals and perpetrators of crimes against humanity within U.S. jurisdiction, deny them safe haven, arrest them where legally authorized, and prosecute or surrender them to competent courts. Congress must close any gaps in U.S. law that prevent accountability. 9. Protect humanitarian access and civilians. Demand rapid, safe, continuous and unimpeded humanitarian access across borders and front lines; protection of aid workers and relief transport; protection of water, food, crops, livestock, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure; and an end to starvation and deprivation as weapons of war. 10. Protect displacement rights. Civilians must be allowed to flee safely, return voluntarily, and remain protected from forced displacement, coercive evacuation, or deprivation intended to permanently alter populations. The standard must be simple: no U.S. weapons, money, military partnership, intelligence, technology, or diplomatic protection for governments or forces enabling war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, or other serious violations of international law. Congress must act now—not merely condemn these atrocities after they occur. Sudan’s civilians are being slaughtered while foreign weapons, financing, technology, and logistical networks continue fueling the war. Congress must stop treating the states enabling these atrocities as legitimate security partners. I demand that Congress use its legislative, appropriations, oversight, sanctions, and war-powers authorities to implement the measures called for by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: 1. Impose a comprehensive arms embargo on ALL of Sudan. Demand the UN Security Council expand the existing Darfur embargo to prohibit weapons, drones, ammunition, spare parts, technical services, training, and other military support to every party to the conflict nationwide. 2. Cut off the enablers. Immediately end U.S. arms sales, military assistance, training, intelligence sharing, logistical support, defense-industrial cooperation, joint military programs, and other security cooperation with the United Arab Emirates and any other government supplying or materially enabling forces committing serious violations of international law. Suspend the U.S.-UAE Major Defense Partnership and block pending transfers. 3. Follow the money and weapons. Require investigations into the companies, financiers, brokers, transport networks, aircraft, exporters, intermediaries, and foreign governments facilitating arms or mercenary flows into Sudan. Preserve supply records and technical data, trace weapons to their origin, and establish the full chain of responsibility. 4. Sanction those responsible. Impose asset freezes, travel bans, export restrictions, and other targeted sanctions on commanders, officials, intermediaries, financiers, companies, and networks responsible for atrocities or violations of the arms embargo. 5. Pursue individual and command accountability. Support independent investigations into attacks on civilians, including the targets selected, weapons used, orders given, precautions taken, looting, destruction, and the responsibility of both direct perpetrators and commanders. 6. Expand ICC jurisdiction. Direct the United States to support a UN Security Council referral of the situation throughout Sudan—not only Darfur—to the International Criminal Court, and fully cooperate with investigations and enforcement of resulting arrest warrants. 7. Preserve the evidence. Support and fund the UN Fact-Finding Mission and OHCHR efforts to preserve physical and digital evidence, identify perpetrators and command structures, and prepare cases for national and international prosecution. 8. Pursue universal jurisdiction. Require U.S. authorities to investigate suspected war criminals and perpetrators of crimes against humanity within U.S. jurisdiction, deny them safe haven, arrest them where legally authorized, and prosecute or surrender them to competent courts. Congress must close any gaps in U.S. law that prevent accountability. 9. Protect humanitarian access and civilians. Demand rapid, safe, continuous and unimpeded humanitarian access across borders and front lines; protection of aid workers and relief transport; protection of water, food, crops, livestock, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure; and an end to starvation and deprivation as weapons of war. 10. Protect displacement rights. Civilians must be allowed to flee safely, return voluntarily, and remain protected from forced displacement, coercive evacuation, or deprivation intended to permanently alter populations. The standard must be simple: no U.S. weapons, money, military partnership, intelligence, technology, or diplomatic protection for governments or forces enabling war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, or other serious violations of international law. Congress must act now—not merely condemn these atrocities after they occur. (https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7094/Sudan:-Over-100-civilians-killed-in-22-days-as-attacks-on-populated-areas-intensify)