{"id":22361,"date":"2024-05-19T20:51:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=22361"},"modified":"2024-05-19T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:51:30","slug":"britains-cameron-violence-in-darfur-may-be-crime-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/britains-cameron-violence-in-darfur-may-be-crime-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Cameron: Violence in Darfur May be Crime Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British foreign minister David Cameron said on Sunday violence in the Darfur region of Sudan may be a crime against humanity.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am deeply concerned by highly credible reports that some of the violence in Darfur is ethnically motivated,&#8221; Cameron said in a statement published on the government website.<br \/>\n&#8220;The ongoing pattern of violence in Darfur, including apparent systematic attacks against civilians, may amount to crimes against humanity.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe UN human rights chief said on Friday he was &#8220;horrified&#8221; by escalating violence near Sudan&#8217;s al-Fashir and held discussions with commanders from both sides of the conflict, warning of a humanitarian disaster if the city is attacked.<br \/>\nHundreds of thousands of people are sheltering in al-Fashir without basic supplies amid fears that nearby fighting will turn into an all-out battle for the city, the Sudanese army&#8217;s last stronghold in the western Darfur region.<br \/>\nIts capture would be a major boost for the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as regional and international powers try to push the sides to negotiate an end to a 13-month war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British foreign minister David Cameron said on Sunday violence in the Darfur region of Sudan may be a crime against humanity. &#8220;I am deeply concerned by highly credible reports that some of the violence in Darfur is ethnically motivated,&#8221; Cameron said in a statement published on the government website. &#8220;The ongoing pattern of violence in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22396,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22361\/revisions\/22396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}