Sudan Conflict: “Hallmarks of Genocide” Warned by UN Team

Atrocities carried out by paramilitary forces in western Sudan as they laid siege to the city of El Fasher have the “hallmarks of genocide,” a fact-finding mission for the United Nations has said.

Executive Summary

A UN fact-finding mission has concluded that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Darfur region carried out targeted killings, sexual violence, starvation, torture, and “systematic humiliation” of non-Arab communities with the goal of wiping them out.

The mission found that the RSF acted with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Zaghawa and Fur communities in El Fasher, which are the hallmarks of