Sudan’s Founding Alliance, known as TASIS, has accused the Sudanese army of using internationally banned chemical weapons against civilians and urged foreign governments to halt their support for the military.
In a statement issued in Nyala on September 6, alliance spokesman Ahmed Tugod Lisan alleged that the army had also developed chemical weapons and was preparing further attacks to maintain its grip on power.
The alliance cited reports, purported physical evidence, laboratory findings, documents and military communications that it said implicated the army’s leadership. It also alleged that the military had failed to respond to requests for clarification from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
The statement did not reproduce the materials it cited or provide details allowing its allegations to be independently assessed.
TASIS argued that any decision to deploy chemical weapons came from the highest levels of political and military authority, rather than being an isolated battlefield decision. It said the army’s leadership bore legal, political and moral responsibility for the alleged attacks.
The alliance further alleged that banned weapons had been used across Sudan’s battlefronts, without identifying specific locations or dates in the statement.
Describing the military as the armed wing of Sudan’s Islamist movement, TASIS said the allegations strengthened its demand for a new national army tasked with protecting civilians and safeguarding the state.
It argued that peace, democratic transition and a return to civilian government required the removal of the Islamist movement and its military from Sudanese political life.
The statement also called for the use of all available military means to overthrow the army, claiming its continued presence threatened Sudan as well as regional and international security.
TASIS urged countries supporting the military to withdraw that backing and called for urgent international action over the alleged weaponisation of chlorine.
