UN mission finds RSF destruction in el-Fasher bears ‘hallmarks of genocide’
Al Jazeera
UN probe documents coordinated ethnic targeting, rape and torture against non-Arab communities in Sudanese city.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group carried out “a coordinated campaign of destruction” against non-Arab communities in and around the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, the hallmarks of which point to genocide, United Nations-backed experts have said.
El-Fasher was the last stronghold of the Sudanese army in the sprawling region of Darfur in the west of the country, until it fell to the RSF in late October last year. The two sides have been fighting a vicious civil war since April 2023.
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