RSF accused of crimes against humanity over the siege of El-Fasher

The paramilitary forces for the rapid support of Sudan (RSF) have committed numerous crimes against humanity during the siege of El-Fashire in Darfur, UN investigators say.

Mission to Detect Facts Mission He accuses the group of “murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual abuse, forced displacement and persecution of ethnic, gender and political causes.”

He also cites more broader evidence of alleged war crimes from both RSF and the regular army, but both sides had previously denied any misconduct in the country’s ongoing civil war.

The UN report states that the two groups are focused on civilians in many ways and as deliberate strategies.

“Both sides have deliberately directed civilians through attacks, generalized executions, arbitrary detention, torture and inhuman treatment at detention facilities, including refusal of food, sanitary and medical care,” said mission chairman Mohammed Chande Otman.

“These are not accidental tragedies, but deliberate strategies in the amount of war crimes.”

By pointing out the RSF’s actions in El-Fasher, the report accused the group of using hunger as a war method that could represent the crime of extermination.

In April, RSF storm the Zamzam camp near El-Fasher, forcing tens of thousands of The most people in the world to run once moreS The situation at the camp was already so bad that a hunger was declared there.

The city of El-Fasher has been under siege for more than a year and is the last major support of the Sudanese army in the region of Darfur in the country.

The US has accused RSF for performing genocide against Darfur’s Nearabian populationS The paramilitary group denied responsibility and blamed violence against local militia.

The United States also put sanctions on the army’s main gene Abdel Fatah al -Burhan accusing him of civil deaths and using food deprivation as a weapon of war.

The army has been at war with RSF since April 2023, with the latter recently strengthened its offensive on El-Fasher, Local people have previously told BBCS

Recent studies conducted by Yale University analyzing satellite images show that 31 km (19 miles) have been built banks since May in areas inhabited by RSF just outside the city and that it intends to essentially capture civilians.

The report, entitled “The War of Atrocities,” calls on the international community to impose an embargo on weapons, as well as to create an independent lawsuit to ensure that the alleged perpetrators are facing justice.

“Our findings do not leave room for doubt: civilians pay the highest price in this war,” added Otman.

Tens of thousands of people were killed in the Sudan Civil War and forced about 13 million to escape from their homes.