After failing to achieve its coup goals to seize power on the morning of April 15, 2023 and turn the country into a private property, the rebel militia today caused a fire outbreak in some of the facilities of the Khartoum refinery in Al-Jaily as a result of its destruction of the refinery’s control units, and then taking the initiative to issue a statement that will not deceive the intelligence of our people in an attempt to pin its heinous crime on the Sudanese Armed Forces, whose national loyalty and firm belief prevent them from engaging in such barbaric behavior and destroying our national assets.
The Sudanese Armed Forces hold the terrorist Rapid Support militia and its mercenaries who were brought in from outside the country responsible for the full consequences of this major crime and all the damages sustained to the facility and the residents of the area around it, especially since it had been keen to occupy the refinery since the first day of its ill-fated rebellion. The armed forces calls on the international and regional community to expedite its classification of the rebels as a terrorist organization.