Are Anwar Gargashs lies enough to exonerate the UAE from its accumulated crimes?!

Anwar Mohammed Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the President of the United Arab Emirates, wrote an article entitled “The UAE and Sudan: A Calm Reading Beyond the Noise of Campaigns,” published by the Emirati newspaper Al-Ittihad on December 23, 2025. In his article, Gargash claimed the existence of a media campaign against the UAE by unnamed parties, and asserted that his superior, Mohammed bin Zayed, had begun focusing on enhancing economic competitiveness, attaining an influential international position, and building a global investment ecosystem following the end of the UAE’s -dir-ect military role in Yemen. Gargash further expressed his astonishment at what he described as “doubts” regarding the UAE’s stance calling for “neutrality,” the cessation of the war in Sudan, and support for initiatives to end it, explaining that the decisions of the Sudanese military institution are hostage to narrow ideological calculations (a reference to Islamists).
As for Yemen, the Emiratis and their allies claimed that their war there was aimed at restoring “legitimacy” a quality utterly lacking in the rulers of the UAE since its inception to this day. In reality, however, the colonization of Yemen, its division, and the plundering of its resources were the primary motives behind that war, according to numerous credible international and regional reports, a fact that has been proven in practice over time. It was the UAE that established the so-called Southern Transitional Council, which seeks to separate southern Yemen from the north, in blatant contradiction to UN Security Council Resolution 2216, which obliges member states to preserve Yemen’s sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity. The UAE also created parallel security and military forces to the state’s official forces in the southern governorates and along the Tihama coast. The UAE went even further by planning and sponsoring the removal of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi from Aden, despite Emirati claims of supporting “legitimacy.”
As for the withdrawal of Emirati forces from Yemen in 2019, it came only after Houthi missile attacks on the Barakah nuclear power plant, followed by attacks on Abu Dhabi Airport in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Nevertheless, the UAE remained in Yemen through its proxies, such as the Southern Transitional Council and other militias, through which and with whose assistance it seized control of a number of strategic Yemeni sites, including the islands of Socotra and Mayun, the port of Aden, and several oil and gas fields in Shabwa, among others. Perhaps the clearest proof that the UAE never truly left Yemen is the major dispute that has recently erupted between it and Saudi Arabia, along with the exposure of arms supplies, military entrenchment, and other activities while what remains hidden is even more egregious.
With regard to Sudan (the main focus of the aforementioned article), reports by United Nations bodies and other international and regional organizations concerned with justice and human rights, in addition to various media institutions, have revealed the UAE’s substantial role in fueling the flames of the Burhan/Hemedti war and the accompanying crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, displacement, looting, and rape committed by the Janjaweed against the Sudanese people. By way of example, reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights organizations, as well as Western media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and others, have proven that the UAE violated the UN arms embargo imposed on Darfur since 2004, and supplied the Janjaweed militias known as the Rapid Support Forces with guided bombs, field artillery, drones, shells, ammunition, and missiles, under the cover of humanitarian aid after exploiting the Red Crescent as a façade to conceal this heinous crime. The UAE also supervised the recruitment of hundreds of thousands of mercenaries to fight within the criminal Janjaweed militias and covered all associated costs, which unequivocally means that the UAE has financed and supported all the massacres and crimes committed by these militias and prolonged the war in the country. The UAE went even further by repeating in Sudan what it had done in Yemen: just as it created and supported the Southern Transitional Council in southern Yemen, it also supported and sponsored the so-called parallel government established by the Janjaweed with the assistance of their allies in the Forces of Freedom and Change (under their various names), despite the UAE’s full awareness of the grave danger this posed to Sudan’s unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. All of these facts categorically refute the “neutrality” that Gargash and his criminal state attempt to cloak themselves in.
In an effort to mislead public opinion and gain some sympathy, Gargash mentioned certain facts while concealing others. He stated that the decisions of the Sudanese military institution are hostage to narrow ideological calculations (referring to Islamists) a reality well known to most rational Sudanese. However, he deliberately avoided any mention of his country’s depravity and its persistent efforts to loot and fragment Sudan, in deep coordination and entrenched cooperation with the very same ideology he pretends to criticize, whether under Bashir´-or-under Burhan/Hemedti and their allies. For example, and not-limit-ed to this, the Emiratis cooperated with Sudan’s Islamists to plunge us into debt and seize our resources, which Bashir and his gang offered as guarantees to obtain those loans. The bulk of those funds were then transferred into accounts and real estate in Dubai and other Emirati cities. In other words, they drowned us in debt obligations without the money ever leaving their country, while they took our land and resources without compensation. Bashir’s mercenaries and Islamist affiliates also formed the main supply of mercenaries in Yemen, after which Burhan and Hemedti (together) continued the same mercenary practices, which persist to this day, based on -dir-ectives from the UAE and its allies.
With the personal patronage of Bashir, his family, and his associates, the UAE looted and destroyed some of the best and most successful Arab development and investment projects that existed in Sudan, depriving us and the other member states of their abundant and guaranteed annual financial returns and their high-quality, safe food products. In coordination with Bashir and his associates, the UAE brought contaminated palm seedlings into the country, expropriated the finest agricultural lands from Sudanese producers, and allocated them to Emiratis to cultivate fodder crops that devastate the soil. The UAE also exploited Bashir, and later Burhan/Hemedti, Hamdok, and their allies in the Forces of Freedom and Change, to swallow up Port Sudan, establish the Abu Amama port, and other projects. Taken together, these facts make the UAE a strategic partner and ally of Sudan’s Islamists, not their adversary despite its pretended hostility toward them. Accordingly, we will continue to demand the criminal and historical accountability of the Emiratis for all the crimes they have committed against Sudan and its people.
In conclusion, it can be said that Gargash’s article is replete with contradictions and exposed falsehoods. Perhaps the only truth in which Gargash was honest is his admission that his superior, Bin Zayed, is concerned solely with enhancing economic competitiveness and attaining an influential international position, even if that comes at the expense of the skulls of millions of innocents. All that matters to him is his own interest, with no moral, legal,´-or-humanitarian constraints. And since Gargash presents himself as a presidential and diplomatic adviser, one would hope he might advise his “master,” Bin Zayed, to recover their occupied islands instead of squandering his people’s wealth to harm innocents in neighboring countries and beyond.
It is repugnant to witness Gargash and the scavengers of his crumbs from the ranks of foolish media figures wallowing in lies and deception to deny and beautify the crimes of the UAE and its rulers, and to cleanse their reputation and record stained with the blood of neighboring and distant peoples. That ugliness has become fully exposed, that filth has spread everywhere, and the curses and supplications of the victims the innocents, the widows, the orphans, and the helpless will pursue them forever.

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