Twenty Years Later, Atrocities Haunt Darfur Again

© NRC, via Associated Press

© NRC, via Associated Press
The world said ‘never again’ after Darfur’s genocide. Yet it stood by as catastrophe loomed
No one can claim they did not know what would happen in El Fasher. An 18-month siege had already seen war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces, including the execution of civilians and sexual violence. Warnings of the massacres that would follow when the city in Darfur fell – as it did on Sunday – were widespread.
The reality was an even darker hell, in the words of UN officials. The World Health Organization says that the RSF killed 460 people in one hospital. Satellite images appear to capture bloodstains on the ground. Footage showed fighters executing unarmed men. Other captives were taken for ransom. The UN says hundreds of civilians and unarmed fighters were raped or killed while trying to flee the city, with clear evidence of ethnically targeted violence. The horrors continue.
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© Photograph: Mohammed Jammal/AP

© Photograph: Mohammed Jammal/AP

© Photograph: Mohammed Jammal/AP
Reports of indiscriminate violence and ethnic targeting in El Fasher have led to growing global outrage
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces claim to have arrested several of their fighters after outrage over the extent of killing in the city of El Fasher continues to build.
But the paramilitary group’s move has been greeted with scepticism from human rights campaigners and Sudanese people, who see it as an attempt to temper criticism over the violence.
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© Photograph: Rapid Support Forces (RSF)/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Rapid Support Forces (RSF)/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Rapid Support Forces (RSF)/AFP/Getty Images

Thousands have fled the Sudanese city in terror with stories of the Rapid Support Forces attacking and killing civilians
Nawal Khalil had been volunteering as a nurse for three years at El Fasher South hospital when the Sudanese city was captured on Sunday by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). She was busy treating patients, including an elderly woman who needed a blood transfusion, when the attack began.
“They killed six wounded soldiers and civilians in their beds – some of them women,” she says. “I don’t know what happened to my other patients. I had to run when they stormed the hospital.”
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