France successive governments have always been able to do a whole lot of “compromises” about human rights violations when it comes to sign weapon deals.

The French government’s silence is all the more deafening given that French military equipment — the Galix, a passive defense system manufactured by the French company Lacroix Défense in collaboration with Nexter, fitted to an armored vehicle made by Edge Group, an Emirati state-owned company — has ended up in the hands of the RSF, even though the terms of its sale for the benefit of the Emirati military expressly prohibited re-export to third parties.

If anyone else was wondering why France specifically and not all nations that care (or pretend to) about human rights.