The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their campaign to seize el-Fasher between 2024 and 2025, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
In a newly released report, the rights group accused three senior RSF commanders of overseeing war crimes during the siege and capture of the city.
Speaking during the launch of the report in Nairobi, Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said the RSF committed murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution in El-Fasher.
“It is a stain on the conscience of humanity,” Callamard said in a statement, reiterating her call for an immediate cease-fire and the deployment of a United Nations protection force to safeguard civilians.
The United Nations and humanitarian agencies have previously reported that more than 6,000 people were killed in just three days during the RSF’s assault on el-Fasher in October 2025, with U.N. experts stating at the time that the offensive bore the “hallmarks of genocide."
