"Hundreds of patients and staff massacred at a hospital; unarmed men of fighting age separated and shot at close range; civilians trying to flee stripped of their belongings and extorted for ransom; perpetrators filming much of the violence themselves. The reports of atrocities that have emerged from the Sudanese city of El Fasher since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last weekend follow a familiar pattern."
"In 2023, as many as 15,000 civilians, mostly from the non-Arab Masalit ethnic group, were killed in massacres in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state, as RSF and allied militias wrested control of the city. Fighters went house to house on a killing rampage. Homes and camps for internally displaced people were torched. In April this year, the RSF killed more than 1,500 civilians at Zamzam IDP camp in 72 hours. The camp, south of El Fasher had a population of about 500,000."
Hundreds of patients and staff were massacred at a hospital in El Fasher and unarmed men of fighting age were separated and shot at close range. Civilians trying to flee were stripped of belongings and extorted for ransom while perpetrators filmed much of the violence. In 2023 up to 15,000 civilians, mostly Masalit, were killed in Geneina as RSF and allied militias seized control, and fighters went house to house. In April the RSF killed more than 1,500 civilians at Zamzam IDP camp in 72 hours, emptying the camp and displacing hundreds of thousands. Estimates of deaths since the RSF took El Fasher on 26 October run into the thousands and the true toll remains unknown.
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