The Darfur Community Association in the United Kingdom issued a statement expressing “deep concern and sorrow” over what it described as “genocide and ethnic cleansing” in El Fasher at the hands of the RSF, accusing the United Arab Emirates of directly supporting the operations and using “British-made” weapons and equipment in the attacks.
The association said the death toll has risen to around 6,000 people in just three days, including patients, the wounded, pregnant women, the elderly, and persons with disabilities who were trapped inside hospitals, shelters, and homes. It noted that its monitoring teams had previously documented the presence of more than 4,000 of these individuals before the city’s fall.
The statement also reported hundreds of rape cases involving women, girls, and even children, describing the events as “a crime that shakes the conscience of humanity” and warning that the death toll could rise further amid ongoing attacks and a total lack of humanitarian response.
It strongly condemned what it called “the shameful international silence,” holding the United Nations and major powers—especially the United Kingdom—responsible for “deliberate inaction” in protecting civilians, despite last year’s UN Resolution 2736, which called for urgent measures to prevent such atrocities.
The group recalled that it had warned a year earlier, during a symposium at Chatham House in London, about the risk of El Fasher’s fall and the likelihood of mass killings—warnings that were ignored.
The statement concluded that what is happening in El Fasher “is not a local conflict but a full-fledged genocide unfolding before the eyes of the world,” calling on the international community and the UN Security Council to immediately designate the RSF as a terrorist organization and hold “all involved states and individuals” accountable.
