El-Fasher’s fall did not close a chapter so much as open a wider, already festering wound. Satellite imagery and on-the-ground reports show clusters of probable bodies and newly dug mass graves around the Sudanese city. Local monitors report thousands killed since the siege began, while health workers and patients were murdered or abducted and hospitals ransacked. The horrors of El-Fasher were not isolated, spontaneous battlefield excesses but deliberate operations in a systematic campaign to wipe whole communities from Sudan’s map — and its future.

Eyewitnesses describe the capture of El Fasher and ethnically targeted massacres in the immediate aftermath

El-Fasher’s fall did not close a chapter so much as open a wider, already festering wound. Satellite imagery and on-the-ground reports show clusters of probable bodies and newly…