‘If RSF Actions In Al-Fasher Are Not Genocide, Then What Is?’ Asks Sudan’s UN Ambassador

By Ephrem Kossaify

When the UN-backed fact-finding mission on Sudan concluded that atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces in and around Al-Fasher last October bore the “hallmarks of genocide,” it marked one of the most damning international assessments of the conflict to date.

The investigative report, issued on Thursday, detailed mass killings, sexual violence, rape, torture, abductions and the deliberate targeting of non-Arab communities, particularly the Zaghawa and Fur...