Lawmakers Call for Sudan Sanctions
The Biden administration should impose new sanctions on people involved in human rights abuses and violence stemming from fighting in Sudan, the top two lawmakers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said April 17.
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Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said the administration should "impose targeted sanctions on all those who subvert the transitional process or are implicated in human rights abuses and government malfeasance" in Sudan, including senior Sudanese military officials. "I condemn ongoing hostilities in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and call for an immediate halt to this violence," he said.
Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said Congress passed a joint resolution last year "clearly stating that the military junta was the major obstacle to Sudanese democracy" and that the administration "needed to act to hold it accountable for human rights abuses, corruption, and anti-democratic actions. To date, this has not happened."
Risch, the committee's top Republican, said the administration "must take immediate steps to sanction Generals [Abdel-Fattah] Burhan and [Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo] Hemetti, and other senior security officials, push the international community to do the same, and take action to curb the influence of external actors providing aid to the junta."
The State Department didn't comment.