While Sudan’s land is ablaze with conventional conflict, and as military machinery continues to claim lives with bullets and shells, the latest investigative report from Sky News Arabia uncovers one of the darkest chapters of this brutal war—a chapter that goes beyond military confrontation, touching the edges of a “silent genocide” through the use of internationally banned chemical weapons.

The report aired by the channel the day before yesterday was not merely a journalistic effort to document war violations, but a resounding cry to a global conscience that appears to have chosen silence in the face of abuses that have crossed every red line.

From North Darfur to South and West Kordofan, and from central Sudan to the heart of the capital, Khartoum, victim testimonies confirm that the “air” that once sustained life has been deliberately transformed into a “death sentence.”

The investigation conveyed heart-wrenching images and scenes, bodies of children and women bearing undeniable chemical scars, and medical reports describing mysterious symptoms that begin with severe breathing difficulties and end in nerve damage or sudden death.

The shocking testimony of young Fath Al-Rahman, who appeared with a swollen neck as he recounted his tragedy and the loss of family members after barrels emitting suffocating fumes fell, stands as a living embodiment of a people being killed in cold blood, far from the noise of cannons.

The investigation did not rely solely on emotional testimonies, but drew on the assessments of international experts and war crimes investigators such as Jankal Zandris and Stefan Kovace, who confirmed that clinical indicators and leaked medical documents clearly point to the use of toxic gases, most likely chlorine gas, a weapon classified as a full war crime under the Rome Statute and the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Sudan ratified in 1999.

The accusation that the Sudanese army, along with the ideological elements influencing its decisions, has used this weapon is not a baseless claim, but rather a reinforcement of previous international reports that confirmed the use of such weapons in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains.

What further exacerbates the dangerous situation is the refusal of the Port Sudan authorities to cooperate with international fact-finding committees, placing them in the position of an accused party attempting to conceal the crime behind a wall of denial.

What this investigation reveals places the international community before a grave moral and legal test. Verbal denunciation is no longer enough in the face of the cries of mothers who have lost their children in “yellow smoke” raids.

The failure to carry out an independent and comprehensive international investigation effectively grants the perpetrators a license to continue turning Sudan into a testing ground for banned weapons.

The investigative report of "Sky News Arabia" is not merely a media content for viewing but a historical indictment document.

If the killer believes the dust of battle will obscure the view of his crimes, history will show that the “air” in Sudan bore witness to the most heinous acts of human treachery.