Journalist Janine di Giovanni, CEO of the Reckoning Project and senior fellow at Yale University\u2019s Jackson School of Global Affairs, has called for urgent action to document the ongoing massacres in Sudan and to avoid repeating the mistakes that accompanied previous atrocities\u2014such as those in Bosnia and Rwanda.
\nIn her article for Foreign Policy, she wrote that as a war correspondent in the 1990s, she witnessed the world\u2019s failure to prevent two genocides and later its struggle to hold perpetrators accountable.
\nShe explained that more than 150,000 people have been killed in the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, and that the evidence is now visible from space.
\nShe noted that the city of El-Fasher fell in October to the RSF following a brutal 18-month siege during which food, electricity, and water crises reached critical levels. After the fall, reports emerged of mass executions, rape, deliberate obstruction of aid, and sightings of mass graves.
\nShe added that the fall of El-Fasher marked a turning point and stressed that the time has come to move toward documentation and then accountability. Stopping the ongoing violence is urgent, she said, but collecting evidence is no less pressing.
\nDi Giovanni quoted Jehanne Henry, a Sudan expert who leads the Reckoning Project\u2019s work in Darfur, describing the flood of evidence coming out of the region through phones and social media.
\n\u201cWe have seen RSF fighters film themselves killing civilians and boasting about it,\u201d Henry said. \u201cHuman rights organizations have verified these images and cross-referenced them with satellite data, even identifying some individual commanders. There is no longer any doubt about the violations.\u201d
\nDi Giovanni emphasized that the challenge now is to integrate digital evidence into formal justice mechanisms, noting that courts must adapt to new forms of verification and work more closely with civil society. States, she added, must also be willing to act on the information they have and commit to arresting perpetrators.
\nIn her Foreign Policy article, she recalled that the world watched as more than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda in just 100 days in 1994.
\nLater, in 1995, a horrific massacre occurred in Srebrenica, Bosnia, where more than 8,000 Muslims were killed in a town the United Nations had declared a \u201csafe zone.\u201d
\nShe added that both atrocities unfolded before the eyes of the international community, exposing its incapacity to gather and preserve evidence in cases of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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