Medical Network: What Is Happening in El Fasher Is a “Full-Fledged Genocide”
Sudan Events – Agencies
The Sudan Doctors Network said what is happening in El Fasher amounts to a crime being committed before the world’s eyes, stressing that global silence is “complicity and partnership in the killing.”
The independent medical network described the situation in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, as “not just a humanitarian tragedy, but a full-fledged genocide carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in cold blood.”
El Fasher, the largest city in Darfur, has faced escalating military assaults and a suffocating siege imposed by the RSF for nearly a year and a half, while international efforts have failed to secure a humanitarian truce to allow aid into the city, which serves as the main hub for relief operations in the region.
Tasneem Al-Amin, the spokesperson for the Sudan Doctors Network, said in a statement on Thursday:
“The people of El Fasher die twice every day: once from RSF bullets on the city’s outskirts, and once again from hunger and shelling inside the city.”
She added: “This is a crime being committed in full view of the world, and silence is complicity in murder.”
Al-Amin further stated: “The killing of women, children, and the elderly fleeing the RSF siege on the city’s outskirts, left abandoned in the open until they perish, is a crime in every sense of the word.”
She stressed that El Fasher “will remain a true test for the international community and human conscience. Its people will continue resisting death with life, and this crime will forever remain a stain of shame on its perpetrators and on those who stood silent.”
Last Friday, the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission in Sudan accused both warring parties of committing war crimes, while stating that RSF forces, during the siege of El Fasher and surrounding areas, carried out countless crimes against humanity—including killings, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement, and persecution on ethnic, gender, and political grounds.
The mission’s report further noted that the RSF and its allies have used starvation as a weapon of war, depriving civilians of basic necessities for survival—including food, medicine, and relief supplies—amounting to a potential crime against humanity aimed at extermination.
