A United Nations probe has found that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed mass killings, rapes, and forced starvation in the city of al-Fashir, amounting to genocide. The RSF, which is battling the Sudanese army in a civil war, captured the city last year after a long siege.
War Crimes and Human Rights Abuses
The UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan documented widespread and systematic patterns of conduct by the RSF, including large-scale killings, mass-scale rape, and deliberate starvation. The report found that the RSF and its allies committed the war crime of starvation by imposing a prolonged siege on the city, impeding relief supplies, and shelling food production systems.
Survivors described being raped in rooms where bodies of recently killed civilians, including their own family members, were still lying on the ground. The UN human rights chief warned that a similar catastrophe was unfolding around another large city, al-Obeid, and that his office had documented patterns of summary executions, abductions, torture, and sexual violence in the surrounding region.
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