This picture seize taken from handout video footage launched on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Telegram account on October 26, 2025, exhibits RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating within the streets of El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur. | Photo Credit: AFP
El-Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after greater than 18 months of brutal siege warfare, giving the group management over each state capital within the huge Darfur area.
Allies of the Army, the Joint Forces, mentioned on Tuesday that the RSF “committed heinous crimes against innocent civilians in the city of El-Fasher, where more than 2,000 unarmed citizens were executed and killed on October 26 and 27, most of them women, children and the elderly”.
Local teams and worldwide NGOs had warned that El-Fasher’s fall might set off mass atrocities, fears that Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab mentioned had been coming true.
The monitor, which depends on open supply intelligence and satellite tv for pc imagery, mentioned the town “appears to be in a systematic and intentional process of ethnic cleansing of Fur, Zaghawa, and Berti indigenous non-Arab communities through forced displacement and summary execution”.
This included what gave the impression to be “door-to-door clearance operations” within the metropolis.
In a report revealed on Monday, it mentioned the actions of the RSF “may be consistent with war crimes and crimes against humanity and may rise to the level of genocide”.
The identical day, UN rights chief Volker Turk spoke of a rising danger of “ethnically motivated violations and atrocities” in El-Fasher.
His workplace mentioned it was “receiving multiple, alarming reports that the Rapid Support Forces are carrying out atrocities, including summary executions”.
Pro-democracy activists, in the meantime, mentioned El-Fasher residents had endured “the worst forms of violence and ethnic cleansing” because the RSF claimed management.
A video launched by native activists and authenticated by AFP exhibits a fighter recognized for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas capturing a bunch of unarmed civilians sitting on the bottom at point-blank vary.
The paramilitaries have a monitor document of atrocities, having killed as many as 15,000 civilians from non-Arab teams within the West Darfur capital of El-Geneina.
The Army, which has been preventing the RSF since April 2023, has additionally been accused of battle crimes.
Published – October 28, 2025 10:19 pm IST
