NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Three senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary forces were named in a new report from rights group Amnesty International accusing them of overseeing war crimes during the siege and capture of el-Fasher in North Darfur in October.Speaking on Wednesday during the launch of the report in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya, Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard said the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, committed crimes against humanity and acts of ethnic cleansing during the assault on the city. She called for an immediate ceasefire and the deployment of a United Nations protection force to safeguard civilians.More than 6,000 people were killed in three days in October 2025 when the RSF seized el-Fasher in an attack that U.N. experts said bore the “hallmarks of genocide.”Amnesty International analyzed nine videos that showed one RSF commander executing civilians, another torturing detainees, and a third ordering the torture of prisoners.
Callamard said the RSF committed murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution. She urged the international community to intervene and stop the attacks on civilians that continue “unhindered”.
