# The Sudan massacre > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "The Sudan massacre," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-sudan-massacre/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *The killing of at least 624 civilians by a government-affiliated militia in Sudan in late October 2025, which John Kiriakou called a crime against humanity — and which he reads as a proxy war financed by the United Arab Emirates on one side and Saudi Arabia on the other, with a Wahhabi component traceable to Hassan al-Turabi.* - **When:** Two days before 31 October 2025 - **Toll he cites:** At least 624 civilians killed in cold blood - **Perpetrator:** A government-affiliated militia - **His characterisation:** 'It''s a crime against humanity is what it is' - **Where he saw it:** France 24 - **The proxies:** Rapid Support Forces financed by the United Arab Emirates; the Sudanese government supported by Saudi Arabia - **Ideological lineage:** The present leaders are the ideological descendants of Hassan al-Turabi - **Death toll of the wider war:** 20,000 to 60,000, per the question put to him **The Sudan massacre** is the killing of at least 624 civilians by a government-affiliated militia in late October 2025, which [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) discussed on 31 October after watching the footage on France 24. ## What he saw *"The video from Sudan is — it's just epically brutal,"* he said. *"Hundreds and hundreds of bodies just laying in the fields or laying in this hospital parking lot."* The militia *"attacked civilians day before yesterday, killed at least 624 people just in cold blood. It was a massacre. It's a crime against humanity is what it is."*[1][2] Both he and the host acknowledged the coverage gap in their own programme before criticising anyone else's: the war was *"a very underreported story, including by us. We've been remiss."*[1] ## The structure of the war Kiriakou reads Sudan as a proxy conflict rather than a domestic one. The Rapid Support Forces — *"a breakaway part of the government"*, making it *"a civil conflict within the government"* — are financed by the United Arab Emirates, while the Sudanese government is supported by Saudi Arabia.[3][4] Asked whether there is a Wahhabi component, he answered by lineage rather than by label: he would personally have called Hassan al-Turabi a Wahhabi, *"and the leaders of Sudan today are sort of the ideological descendants of Hassan al-Turabi. So I would say yeah, there probably is."* Turabi, he added, *"was a fundamentalist by anybody's definition of fundamentalism."*[4][5] ## The precedent he reaches for The comparison Kiriakou draws is not to another African war but to [the Tajik civil war of the 1990s](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-tajik-civil-war) — another proxy conflict that ran for as long as the outside money did, and stopped when the sponsors lost interest.[2][6][3] ## See also - [The Tajik Civil War](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-tajik-civil-war) - [The Sahel Church Burnings](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-sahel-church-burnings) - [Saudi Arabia and radicalism](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/saudi-arabia-and-radicalism) - [Why the UAE was targeted](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/why-the-uae-was-targeted) - [Myanmar's civil war, per Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/myanmar-civil-war-kiriakou-view) ## Sources 1. DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza-istan?” (2025-11-01), at 08:17. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-d0Y6eESc&t=497s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-01-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-john-kiriakou-gaz/ 2. DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza-istan?” (2025-11-01), at 08:48. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-d0Y6eESc&t=528s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-01-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-john-kiriakou-gaz/ 3. DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza-istan?” (2025-11-01), at 09:49. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-d0Y6eESc&t=589s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-01-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-john-kiriakou-gaz/ 4. DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza-istan?” (2025-11-01), at 10:22. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-d0Y6eESc&t=622s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-01-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-john-kiriakou-gaz/ 5. DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza-istan?” (2025-11-01), at 10:52. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-d0Y6eESc&t=652s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-01-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-john-kiriakou-gaz/ 6. DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza-istan?” (2025-11-01), at 09:19. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-d0Y6eESc&t=559s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-11-01-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-john-kiriakou-gaz/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-sudan-massacre/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt