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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 26 november 2025

Amnesty accuses Sudanese paramilitary group RSF of committing

war crimes in Darfur city of el-Fasher

By SAMY MAGDY gash that the warring par-
Associated Press ties were repeatedly urged
CAIRO (AP) — Amnesty In- to accept this humanitar-
ternational on Tuesday said ian truce presented as it is,
that atrocities committed without any preconditions.
by a Sudanese paramilitary On Sunday, Sudan's top
group in a Darfur city con- army Gen. Abdel-Fattah
stituted war crimes, the lat- Burhan rejected the cease-
est such accusation in the fire proposal, saying in a
country’s devastating war. video released by the mili-
In a report, the interna- tary that it was unaccept-
tional rights group said able and “the worst yet,”
that it gathered testimony accusing the mediators of
describing barbarities car- being “biased” in their ef-
ried out by the Rapid Sup- forts to end the war. The
port Forces, or RSF, when following day, RSF com-
its fighters wrestled control mander Mohammed Ham-
of el-Fasher, the capital of dan Dagalo, said in a video
North Darfur province, from message posted on Tele-
the army late last month. gram that the paramilitary
Executions and rapes agreed to a three-month
The group said that the humanitarian truce to fa-
atrocities included execut- cilitate aid deliveries.
ing dozens of unarmed This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. The war's background
men, and raping women Associated Press. Sudan’s war began in April
and girls. 2023 over a power struggle
Amnesty said that other region of Darfur. daughter’s health condi- “These atrocities were fa- between the miliary and
people were taken hos- Survivor accounts tion deteriorated and she cilitated by the United Arab the RSF.
tages by RSF fighters for Witnesses told The Associ- died in a clinic in Tawila, a Emirates’ support for the The conflict has killed more
ransom, and that witnesses ated Press last month that town around 60 kilometers RSF,” she said. than 40,000 people a fig-
said they saw “hundreds RSF fighters went house to (37 miles) west of el-Fasher, The UAE has long denied ure rights groups consider a
of dead bodies left lying” house, killing civilians and which has become a hub the accusation. significant undercount and
in the city’s streets and on committing sexual assaults. for those fleeing RSF atroci- Truce proposal has created a grave hu-
main roads out of el-Fasher. The World Health Organiza- ties, according to Amnesty. U.S. adviser for African af- manitarian crisis, with more
“ThiS persistent, widespread tion say that gunmen killed Another 29-year-old wom- fairs Massad Boulos told than 14 million people dis-
violence against civilians at least 460 people at a an said that she was one reporters in Abu Dhabi on placed.
constitutes war crimes and hospital, and abducted of 11 women taken by RSF Tuesday that the Sudanese The RSF is largely made up
may also constitute other doctors and nurses. fighters and raped while army and the RSF haven’t of fighters from the Arab
crimes under international Amnesty said in its report they were attempting to formally accepted the Janjaweed militia, which
law,” said Agnès Calla- that the group's research- flee the city on Oct. 26. She Quad’s proposal for a hu- is accused of carrying out
mard, Amnesty's secretary- ers spoke with 28 survivors said she was raped three manitarian truce. a government-backed
general. who managed to flee el- times by a fighter, while an- The Quad, which is made genocidal campaign in
The RSF didn’t immediately Fasher. other one watched. up of mediators from the Darfur in the 2000s in which
respond to a request for The witnesses described “The world must not look U.S., Saudi Arabia, Egypt around 300,000 people
comment. “witnessing groups of men away as more details and the United Arab Emir- were killed.
The group has acknowl- shot or beaten" and the emerge about the RSF’s ates, have been trying to The group has been ac-
edged that some of its taking of hostages for ran- brutal attack on el-Fasher,” bring the war to an end and cused of a series of atroci-
fighters committed viola- som. said Callamard, calling for potentially paving the way ties over the course of the
tions in the city and vowed The group said that RSF holding accountable all for a democratic transition, current war, and the Biden
to investigate. fighters sexually assaulted those responsible for com- which was hampered by a administration, in one of its
The RSF, which has been women and girls. It cited mitting atrocities. military coup in 2021. The last decisions, said that the
at war with the Sudanese one woman who said that Criticism of UAE latest proposal calls for a RSF committed genocide
military for more than 2½ she and her 14-year-old She lashed out at the Unit- three-month humanitarian in Darfur.
years, seized el-Fasher late daughter were raped by ed Arab Emirates over its truce followed by a nine- The miliary has also been
in October after more than RSF fighters on Oct. 27 while alleged support of the RSF, month political process. accused of atrocities but
an 18-month siege. The they were trying to flee the which she said “is fueling a Boulos said during a joint not to the same level of the
city was the military’s last city. relentless cycle of violence news conference with top paramilitary force.q
stronghold in the sprawling The woman said her against civilians in Sudan.” UAE adviser Anwar Gar-