Sudan is facing a severe humanitarian crisis with millions displaced and thousands killed due to ongoing civil conflict and ethnic violence from April to November 2023. The UN has described it as the world's biggest displacement crisis. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias have committed atrocities against ethnic Massalit and other non-Arab communities in El Geneina, West Darfur, including potential acts of genocide. These attacks have resulted in mass casualties and left hundreds of thousands as refugees. HRW also highlighted similar fears for El Fasher, another regional capital, with credible reports of impending violence. The international community has been urged to stop arming these groups to prevent further war crimes.
"Gunmen spraying bullets at fleeing children; a mother with a child on her back shot dead; terrified teenage girls summarily executed as they fled a massacre in the Darfur city of El Geneina," all deaths due to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. https://t.co/eMabjyyszz
Sudan war rages amid reports of ethnic cleansing, children 'piled up and shot' https://t.co/zD4HwAQtEH
HRW said that targeting the Masalit and other non-Arab populations with the aim of at least displacing them permanently from their region amounts to ethnic cleansing - and potentially genocide https://t.co/XNpjpo2VCG
Rapid Support Forces and their allies accused of killing thousands of people and displacing hundreds of thousands in what HRW is calling 'possibly genocide' https://t.co/eflBIqGIkV
The situation in el-Fasher, North Dafur, is extremely serious. There are very credible reports of large-scale massacres being committed by Rapid Support Forces. Beyond the identity-based slaughters taking place, there remains a very strong risk of famine across Sudan. Those…
Human Rights Watch says that after the slaughter of civilians in Darfur’s El Geneina in November, El Fashir, the final regional capital in the western Darfur region still under government control, fears a similar fate. https://t.co/xixj8Vr0AE
Report spotlights Sudan slaughter, with new city in Darfur under siege https://t.co/cXuniTjlvH
Possible genocide committed in Sudan, report says https://t.co/jr30OzWkSc
Gruesome Sudan testimony: "the large-scale massacre of civilians as they desperately tried to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer." "Witnesses describe children, still alive, being 'piled up and shot' by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces." https://t.co/sEGWBHFCU7
“Witnesses describe children, still alive, being “piled up and shot” by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as they attempted to escape the regional capital of El Geneina in June last year” https://t.co/ia4bAClzmA
Ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity have been committed in El Geneina, West Darfur, against ethnic Massalit and non-Arab communities, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch. https://t.co/ok1PiOEAIr
“A series of attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in the western region of Darfur raise the possibility of “genocide” against non-Arab ethnic communities,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. https://t.co/rWXMRUDZdF
Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan’s West Darfur state, from April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees. Stop arming these war crimes. https://t.co/876cPh5o1K
Sudan's civil war has led millions to flee their homes, leading to what the UN says is the world’s biggest displacement crisis https://t.co/OOqayWG4Oz