The world must act immediately to halt the “horrific atrocities” in Sudan’s El-Fasher, the UN rights chief told AFP Monday, urging countries not to wait until a “genocide” was declared.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been at war with the regular army since April 2023, captured the last military stronghold in western Darfur on Oct 26.
Since El-Fasher’s takeover after a gruelling 18-month siege, the UN and rights monitors have reported widespread atrocities, including ethnically driven killings and abductions.
“It’s clear that atrocity crimes are being committed as we speak,” UN commissioner for human rights Volker Turk told AFP in an interview, stressing that the siege had in itself been “an atrocity crime”.
“People were beleaguered and under siege, under horrific…