SUDAN – The UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan has accused both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of deliberately targeting civilians in the war that has raged since April 2024. In a damning new report, the investigators said the two warring parties have carried out widespread atrocities that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including persecution and extermination.
The report, titled “A war of Atrocities”, details how both sides launched systematic attacks on civilians and deliberately destroyed vital infrastructure, markets, hospitals, water networks, food supplies, and displacement camps. In North Darfur’s capital El Fasher, where the city has been under siege for months, RSF and allied militias committed grave abuses including killings, torture, rape, sexual violence, forced displacement, and the use of starvation as a weapon of war.