UN probe says mass killings, rapes, abductions, starvation by Sudan force amount to genocide
The mission said the RSF used siege tactics, sexual violence and starvation against non-Arab communities, and found additional evidence of an intended policy.
- On Wednesday, the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan reported that the RSF committed genocide in Fashir, using mass killings and starvation as intentional policy after capturing the city last year.
- Before capturing Fashir, the RSF imposed a prolonged siege, systematically cutting off access to food, water, and medical supplies; survivors described being raped while bodies of recently killed civilians lay nearby.
- The report identified "indicators of a genocidal path," noting systematic patterns of conduct, while the RSF denied the abuses, claiming accounts were manufactured by enemies during over three years of civil war.
- U.N. human rights chief Volker warned on Friday that a similar "catastrophe" is unfolding around Obeid, where Britain and other states report large-scale atrocities as the RSF masses forces around the city home to more than 83,000 displaced people.
- Following Monday's condemnation by the Human Rights Council, members established an urgent inquiry into abuses in Obeid; the mission's chair, Mohamed Chande Othman, urged the international community to act now to prevent further catastrophe.
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Geneva. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out mass killings, abductions of women and girls, as well as collective rape and forced deprivation of food in a city they occupied last year as part of an intentional policy amounting to genocide, the United Nations (UN) said yesterday.
A United Nations report finds that mass killings, sexual violence against women and forced starvation carried out by Sudan's Rapid Intervention Force (RSF) constitute acts of genocide.
Sudan: 'El Obeid Must Not Become the Next Crime Scene' Warn UN Investigators
Atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia against Sudanese civilians in El Fasher in October - including mass killings, abductions and gang rapes - bear the markers of genocide, independent UN human rights investigators reported on Wednesday.
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