A whistle-blower inside the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has revealed that officials knew of the risk of genocide in Sudan before the civil war erupted, but deliberately suppressed the information.

According to the report published by the Guardian on Wednesday, an FCDO threat analyst was prevented from issuing an alert that genocide could occur in Darfur.

The warning was blocked from inclusion in a humanitarian risk assessment compiled just days after Sudan’s violent civil war broke out in April 2023.

“The word ‘genocide’ was removed from our report. Anyone who has studied Sudan, its patterns of behavior, knew genocide was a risk,” said the analyst, who has produced frequent assessments for the FCDO.

The censorship is particularly troubling as the UK is the UN Security Council’s “penholder” on Sudan, responsible for leading the council’s actions on the conflict.

The West does not speak about the slaughter of civilians in Sudan because the UAE has bought and paid for its silence, says a senior Sudanese commander.

A former FCDO official associated with the department’s atrocity prevention team told the Guardian that difficulties raising atrocity concerns in Darfur mirrored challenges they faced flagging human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

DRC atrocity assessments, the official added, were “dropped for political reasons,” noting that “that pattern of behavior looks to have been repeated for Sudan.”

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