Nov. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged the international community to halt arms flows to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces in the wake of mass killings and atrocities after the group overran El Fasher in the country's Darfur region.
Speaking at Hamilton Airport in Ontario on Wednesday, following a meeting of the G7, Rubio said atrocities committed against civilians by the paramilitary group, including murder and rape and sexual violence, were systematic and had to be stopped.
"They're committing acts of sexual violence and atrocities, just horrifying atrocities, against women, children, innocent civilians of the most horrific kind. And it needs to end immediately. And we're going to do everything we can to bring it to an end, and we've encouraged partner nations to join us in this fight," Rubio said.
He added that he had heard from humanitarian groups that some of the levels of malnutrition and suffering among those who had been able to flee were unprecedented, "things they've never recorded before."
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