On September 12, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said ethnically motivated attacks by the armed group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan and allied groups have killed hundreds of people in the West Darfur region.
“In the West Darfur region, ethnically motivated attacks by the RSF and allied Arab militias have killed hundreds of civilians, mainly from the Masalit community. These developments are a replay of a terrible past that must not be repeated,” Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The latest attacks have been mainly in El Geneina, the capital of Sudan’s West Darfur state, Turk said. The RSF currently controls all but two locations in West Darfur.
In addition, Mr. Turk also said there were “worrying signs” of the involvement of tribal or ethnic militias.
In the past, from 2003 to 2008, conflict in Sudan killed more than 300,000 people and forced more than 2 million people to flee their homes.
Sudan has been in turmoil since April 15, when tensions between the army and the RSF led to clashes in the capital Khartoum and several other areas. At least 3,000 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured in the conflict. According to the latest figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the conflict has displaced about 4.8 million Sudanese internally and in neighboring countries.
According to Tin Tuc newspaper