\n The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their attack on El-Fasher city between 2024 and 2025, Amnesty International alleged Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sudan has been mired since April 2023 in a brutal war between the army and the RSF, which has killed tens of thousands and forced millions to flee, according to the United Nations.\n<\/p>\n
\n Both sides have been accused of atrocities, with a UN independent fact-finding mission in February concluding that the 2025 assault on El-Fasher bore the \"hallmarks of genocide\".\n<\/p>\n
\n Amnesty's wide-ranging report found that the RSF \"committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its campaign to seize El Fasher\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The NGO interviewed 247 victims or witnesses between early 2024 and October 2025 in North Darfur.\n<\/p>\n
\n It said the RSF systematically attacked settlements around El-Fasher which housed the Zaghawa people, an ethnic group in western Darfur.\n<\/p>\n
\n The report alleged widespread and deliberate violence against children including killing, abductions, forced recruitment, and rape.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"It is a stain on the conscience of humanity,\" said Amnesty chief Agnes Callamard in a statement.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking in Nairobi, she was blunt on the actions of the RSF: \"They exterminated, they persecuted on the basis of ethnicity and gender. They ethnically cleansed.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n \"The RSF will repeat those crimes again and again until they are stopped,\" she warned.\n<\/p>\n
\n - 'Ethnic cleansing' -\n<\/p>\n
\n The report said that RSF fighters burned homes long after residents had fled, \"suggesting an intent to render the areas uninhabitable\", consistent with \"ethnic cleansing\".\n<\/p>\n
\n During the final RSF offensive on El-Fasher in October 2025, Amnesty said \"hundreds were executed, and many others were tortured or detained\" as they attempted to flee.\n<\/p>\n
\n The report also noted violations happened \"repeatedly and on a large scale\", and suggested \"those in positions of authority knew, or should have known, what was occurring, and failed to stop it or hold anyone accountable\".\n<\/p>\n
\n Amnesty International -- which stressed that its investigation into the incidents was ongoing -- also said such acts \"may be relevant to the crime of genocide\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The international NGO urged an immediate ceasefire and deployment of an international force to protect civilians.\n<\/p>\n
\n The report comes as the UN Human Rights Council held a debate over El-Obeid city in North Kordofan, where there are fears of an imminent RSF assault after weeks of intense attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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