Systematic killings have taken place over the past two days since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of el-Fasher, in Sudan’s Darfur, a new report has corroborated.
The Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) investigated alleged executions, mass killings and attacks reported in at least four sites: a former children’s hospital, the offices of the Red Crescent Society of Sudan, the Saudi Hospital, and the vicinity of the earthen wall fortification around the city.
The RSF stormed el-Fasher on Sunday, carrying out killings and abuses, some of which were documented by its own fighters. The city, where 260,000 people were trapped, had been under siege for over 500 days.
Yale HRL found evidence over the past two days consistent with mass killings at the former Children’s Hospital east of el-Fasher, which the RSF took control of over a year ago and has operated as a detention centre.
Using satellite imagery, Yale HRL found images consistent with a group of people queuing near the entrance of the compound on 27 October (they were not seen there a day earlier).
