"It unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe. Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people patients and their families were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians."
"The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide. This is the culmination of a campaign that had walled in the population of the city hundreds of thousands of people and reduced it to starvation."
El Fasher endured an 18-month siege and fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), triggering mass killings and widespread atrocities. Nearly 500 patients and relatives were reported killed in a single maternity hospital, and survivors describe summary executions. Satellite imagery shows blood-saturated ground. The RSF campaign had confined hundreds of thousands, producing starvation, bombing, and forced survival on animal feed, while those who attempted to flee faced death and rape. El Fasher had been the Sudanese military's last stronghold in Darfur, and its capture represents a grave turning point in the two-and-a-half-year conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF.
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