Exclusive-Boeings identified in Reuters report carried weapons for Sudanese paramilitary, UN experts find

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UN experts have identified Boeing 727 aircraft linked to a U.S. military contractor as having transported weapons, drones, and mercenaries for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces. This supports accusations of genocide committed by the paramilitary group in Darfur.

By David Lewis, Reade Levinson and Alexander Dziadosz LONDON/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - United Nations experts have found that Boeing 727s linked by Reuters to a U.S. military contractor's business network transported mercenaries, weapons and drones for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, according to a draft U.N. report due to be published in September. The findings provide additional important details about the role the aircraft played in supporting the RSF, the paramilitary force U.N. investigators have accused of committing genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.