A new report by a United Nations (UN) Independent Fact Finding Mission for Sudan has found that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a co-ordinated campaign of destruction against non-Arab communities in and around El-Fasher, the hallmarks of which point to genocide.
The mission assessed the mass killings and related atrocities committed by the paramilitary group during its October takeover of North Darfur’s capital, and found evidence that at least three underlying acts of genocide were committed.
The Mission found that acts that included killings of members of a protected ethnic group, actions that cause serious bodily and mental harm and deliberately inflicting conditions of live calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part.
This was some of the key reactions from the UN Security Council in New York.
The report’s findings are chilling starvation used as a weapon of war, mass killings, civilians ambushed and slaughtered as they fled and women raped by the bodies of their murdered children.
Ethnic targeting and perpetrators calling for extermination and what the report describes as hallmarks of genocide.
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