Three senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary forces were named in a new report from rights group Amnesty International accusing them of overseeing war crimes during the siege and capture of el-Fasher in North Darfur in October.
Speaking on Wednesday during the launch of the report in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya, Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard said the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, committed crimes against humanity and acts of ethnic cleansing during the assault on the city. She called for an immediate ceasefire and the deployment of a United Nations protection force to safeguard civilians.
More than 6,000 people were killed in three days in October 2025 when the RSF seized el-Fasher in an attack that UN experts said bore the “hallmarks of genocide.”
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