SKY YORK Journal | Newly uncovered intelligence files reveal how banned chemical weapons found their way into Sudan, facilitated by networks stretching from Syria to Iran and ultimately delivered into the hands of the Sudanese Armed Forces. At the center of this operation stand military figures tied to Islamist factions, including Major General Mirghani Idris Suleiman, a close associate of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
The Academic Link: From Pesticides to Poison Gas
According to the leaked records, the pipeline began with a Sudanese academic — a professor of agricultural sciences and pesticides — who traveled repeatedly to Syria under the Assad regime. There, he acquired knowledge of chemical weapon production and later transferred both expertise and prohibited substances back to Sudan.
With the cooperation of Sudanese officers, and under direct Iranian supervision, these materials — originally of Iranian origin but routed through Syria — were smuggled into Sudan following the outbreak of the April 2023 war.
Documents and Names Exposed
The documents, reportedly moved from Syrian intelligence archives to Washington by a defected Syrian officer, detail shipment quantities, transfer dates, and the identities of Sudanese officers involved. Among the most prominent: Mirghani Idris Suleiman, a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Khartoum, who now leads efforts within Sudan’s military framework linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
These shipments included chlorine and other components for internationally prohibited gases, later distributed to Sudanese military units.
Field Use and International Evidence
The first confirmed signal of chemical deployment emerged in Khartoum’s College of Education, where the extremist Al-Baraa bin Malik Battalion was stationed. After a drone strike by Rapid Support Forces hit the site, toxic gas was released from within the facility. International organizations later documented, with both images and footage, that the location was being used to prepare and weaponize chemical agents.
Iran’s Strategic Calculations
Analysts point to Iran’s involvement as part of a broader agenda:
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Circumventing international monitoring and sanctions.
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Offsetting repeated Israeli strikes on its assets in Syria and Lebanon.
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Establishing a foothold in the Red Sea and Africa by aligning with Sudan’s weakened, Islamist-controlled government.
This partnership provides Tehran with both strategic depth and a proxy platform while embedding Sudan deeper into regional instability.
A Military’s Moral Collapse
Instead of defending its people, Sudan’s army has crossed into systematic war crimes:
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Bombing bakeries and hospitals.
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Conducting ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
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Forcibly displacing civilians.
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Deploying chemical weapons against unarmed populations.
These actions signal not a political struggle, but a deliberate campaign of extermination, marking the Sudanese military’s total moral and institutional collapse.
Global Silence as a Crime
The use of chemical weapons in Sudan represents a watershed moment. What began as civil conflict has now escalated into an international crime of mass atrocity. Yet, global silence persists.
As SKY YORK Journal underscores: the world’s failure to act against Sudan’s chemical warfare is itself a crime — one that compounds the suffering of millions and erodes the very foundations of international law.
