NEW YORK CITY: The US on Thursday accused Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias of committing genocide in the besieged city of El-Fasher in North Darfur, as the UN continued to warn of escalating atrocities against civilians there.
“The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias have committed genocide,” the US deputy ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, told a Security Council meeting on the situation in Sudan.
“They have systematically killed men and boys, even infants, and deliberately targeted women and children for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence. These crimes are ethnically motivated.
“It is not enough for the RSF to make humanitarian commitments — they must implement them.”
RSF fighters were targeting civilians attempting to flee the fighting, and blocking humanitarian aid from reaching those trapped in the city, she added.
