The United Nations fact-finding mission on Sudan has accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing crimes against humanity during the ongoing conflict. These include killings, torture, forced displacement, and ethnically motivated persecution.
“The evidence leaves no doubt—civilians are bearing the heaviest cost of this war,” mission head Mohamed Chande Othman said in a statement.
The report cited atrocities in El Fasher and surrounding areas, including executions, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, and widespread forced displacement.
Othman added that RSF and allied groups have used starvation as a weapon of war, depriving civilians of food, medicine, and humanitarian supplies—acts that may amount to crimes against humanity with genocidal intent.
“These are not incidental tragedies but deliberate strategies amounting to war crimes,” the statement read. The mission urged international action to hold perpetrators accountable.
UN mission member Mona Rishmawi stressed, “Accountability is not optional—it is a legal and moral necessity to protect civilians and prevent further atrocities.”
