There is little more damning than when the tools for a war crime arrive with the label seemingly still attached. Amid the haul of rockets, shells and mortar rounds seized from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the Sudanese paramilitary outfit widely accused of committing massacres and rape, are crates clearly stamped from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). One box stores a Kornet anti-tank missile and is marked “Abu Dhabi”. Another bears the label “Joint Logistics Command, United Arab Emirates”.
In a war like Sudan’s that is awash with rumour, denial and propaganda, such details carry a force of their own.
