Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been widely accused of ethnic cleansing and committing crimes against humanity since war broke out between the RSF and the regular army
Sudan 's Rapid Support Forces and allied militias are accused of ethnic cleansing. Skin-crawling details of child murder, rape and torture were revealed by HRWEyewitness testimonies describing how screaming children were piled up and shot amid a genocidal campaign by paramilitary forces in Sudan have emerged as part of a horrifying Human Rights Watch report published today.
But now the HRW report has shed new light on the abhorrent crimes conducted by the RSF against the Massalit community in the west of the country, along with other non-Arab groups. People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, as fighting continues in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals, on April 29, 2023
A damaged army tank is seen on the street, almost one year into the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces , in Omdurman, Sudan, April 7, 2024 Both sides have been accused of war crimes, but the RSF is believed to have conducted a programme of ethnic cleansing of non-Arab communities, particularly the ethnic Massalit group, in the west of the country.
HRW added that the attackers 'methodically destroyed critical civilian infrastructure', primarily in communities consisting of displaced Massalit. HRW called for an investigation into genocidal intent, targeted sanctions on those responsible and urged the United Nations to 'widen the existing arms embargo on Darfur to cover all of Sudan'.
Women from El Geneina, West Darfur, weep after receiving news of their missing relatives in Ardamata, as they waited for them in Adre, Chad, November 7, 2023
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