Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The United States is sanctioning three leaders of Sudan's warring Rapid Support Forces on accusations of conducting a genocidal campaign in the war-torn country's El-Fasher city.
The RSF has been locked in a bloody civil war with the Sudanese Armed Forces for nearly three years that has displaced nearly 13 million people, according to United Nations estimates.
In recent days, U.N. officials have released a damning report accusing the RSF of committing ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence and enforced disappearances -- three underlying acts of genocide -- in its late-October takeover of El-Fasher in Sudan's western Darfur region.
The United States has accused the RSF of committing genocide since the Biden administration, and on Thursday sanctioned RSF Brigadier General Elfateh Abdullah Idris Adam, RSF Major Gen. Gedo Hamdan Ahmed Mohamed and RSF Field Commander Tijani Ibrahim Moussa Mohamed.
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