Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international action
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undreds of patients and staff massacred at a hospital; unarmed men of fighting age separated and shot at close range; civilians trying to flee stripped of their belongings and extorted for ransom; perpetrators filming much of the violence themselves.
The reports of atrocities that have emerged from the Sudanese city of El Fasher since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last weekend follow a familiar pattern.
In 2023, as many as 15,000 civilians, mostly from the non-Arab Masalit ethnic group, were killed in massacres in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, as RSF and allied militias wrested control of the city. Fighters went house to house on a killing rampage. Homes and camps for internally displaced people were torched.
