After its takeover of El Fasher in Darfur last month, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has undertaken a genocidal campaign of door-to-door mass executions, targeting unarmed non-Arab civilians. The scale of killing is so shocking that pools of what may be blood are observable from space, as captured by satellite imagery analysis. An estimated 2,000 civilians were killed within the first 48 hours of the takeover alone.
As we write, a massacre without precedent is taking place in Sudan’s North Darfur region, and it is somehow being met with near-total international indifference.
As we write, a massacre without precedent is taking place in Sudan’s North Darfur region, and it is somehow being met with near-total international indifference.
After its takeover of El Fasher in Darfur last month, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has undertaken a genocidal campaign of door-to-door mass executions, targeting unarmed non-Arab civilians. The scale of killing is so shocking that pools of what may be blood are observable from space, as captured by satellite imagery analysis. An estimated 2,000 civilians were killed within the first 48 hours of the takeover alone.
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