GENEVA: Sudan’s brutal war has intensified since the start of the year, with surging numbers of summary executions and a deeply worrying increase in ethnic violence, the United Nations said Friday.
The UN rights chief Volker Turk warned in a statement of “increasing ethnicization of the conflict” between the regular armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has gripped Sudan since April 2023.
The “forgotten” conflict has already killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
And Turk’s office detailed in a fresh report how the war had expanded and intensified further during the first six months of the year, “taking on increasingly ethnic and divisive dimensions, with a devastating impact on the civilian population.”
In North Darfur particularly, “violence is being directed on an ethnic basis,” Li Fung, the rights office representative for Sudan, told reporters in Geneva.
