Abdul Rahman JUMA BARAKALLAH

Associated entity: RSF (Rapid Support Forces)

Function: RSF Major General and RSF Commander of West Darfur

Associated entities: RSF

Abdulrahman Juma Barakallah is a prominent General among the RSF, who commands the RSF’s military force in West Darfur. He is responsible for committing atrocities and other abuses, inducing ethnically motivated killings, targeted attacks on human rights activists and defenders, conflict-related sexual violence, and for the looting and burning of communities. He is also responsible for kidnapping and assassinating the Governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abbakar, and his brother. Khamis Abbakar was killed hours after he accused the RSF and allied militias of attacking local communities in Al Geneina, capital of West Darfur, in an interview with the Saudi-owned television station, Al Hadath and Emirati television Al Arabiya. Abdulrahman Juma Barakallah has also been accused by international Non-Governmental Organisations of being responsible for the genocide of the Masalit community. Therefore, Abdulrahman Juma Barakallah is responsible for planning, directing or committing acts in West Darfur that constitute serious human rights violations or abuses or violations of international humanitarian law, including killings and maimings, rape and other serious forms of sexual and gender-based violence, abduction and forced displacement. As a General of the RSF in West Darfur, he also engages directly or indirectly in actions or policies that threaten the peace, stability or security of Sudan.

Associated entity: RSF (Rapid Support Forces)