; Whereas, on November 3, 2023, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights stated, “We are deeply alarmed by reports that women and girls are being abducted and held in inhuman, degrading slave-like conditions in areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur”; Whereas, on November 14, 2023, the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, expressed extreme concern with the serious allegations of mass killings in Ardamata, which may constitute acts of genocide , citing reports that the violence killed more than 800 people and displaced 8,000 Sudanese individuals to Chad; Whereas, on December 6, 2023, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken determined that, since the fighting between the SAF and the RSF began on April 15, 2023, Sudan has experienced war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing in haunting echoes of the genocide that began almost 20 years ago in Darfur , including Masalit civilians being hunted down and left for dead in the streets, their homes set on fire, and told that there is no place in Sudan for them ; Whereas a December 15, 2023, Reuters special investigative report detailed the targeted killing of Masalit men and boys by the RSF, about which an emergency protection officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees explained that the objective of the killings seems to be the elimination of future fighters as well as the line of ancestry of a specific ethnic group , referring to the Masalit people; Whereas the RSF has killed Masalit political and traditional leaders in El-Geneina, West Darfur, including Khamis Abdullah Abbakar, the Governor of West Darfur, and Farsha Mohamed Arbab, a prominent leader of the Masalit Sultanate