NEW YORK: The UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide on Friday said that Sudan may be nearing a tipping point for atrocities amid growing reports of widespread killings and attacks on civilians in El-Fasher.
Warning that “a threshold is about to be crossed,” Chaloka Beyani said that “once our office sounds the alarm, (it) rings over and beyond ordinary violations of human rights or of international humanitarian law.”
He said the scale of atrocities shows “there has to be early action taken.”
Beyani said there had been “massive violations of international human rights law” and “direct attacks on civilians” by warring parties in Darfur.
Graphic reports and videos that surfaced late last month appeared to show atrocities carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after they seized control of El-Fasher from government troops, ending a siege that had lasted more than 500 days.
