A United Nations report reveals that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Janjaweed militias killed more than 6,000 people over three days in late October during an offensive to capture el-Fasher, Sudan, AP reported Sunday.
The UN Human Rights Office detailed atrocities amounting to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, noting that the “shocking” scale of violence followed an 18-month siege of the army’s final Darfur stronghold.
Investigators documented the killing of 4,400 people inside the city between October 25 and 27, while another 1,600 were slaughtered while attempting to flee.
In one horrific instance at El-Fasher University, RSF fighters killed 500 people with heavy weapons in a dormitory and executed another 600, including 50 children, who were sheltering in university facilities.
The violence extended to medical centers, with the World Health Organization reporting at least 460 people killed when the RSF stormed the Saudi Maternity hospital on October 28.
Additionally, 300 people died during shelling at the Abu Shouk camp for displaced persons. The report emphasized that the attacks were frequently ethnicity-motivated, targeting the non-Arab Zaghawa tribe with widespread “systematic” sexual violence used as a weapon of war.
Thousands more were abducted for ransom or held in makeshift detention centers, including the city’s Children’s Hospital.
While RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo has acknowledged some “abuses,” he disputed the scale of the atrocities. UN High Commissioner Volker Türk warned that persistent impunity continues to fuel this cycle of violence, which has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and pushed parts of Sudan into famine.
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