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Sudan war: UN expert warns of genocide in Darfur city of El Fasher
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511vgzvl2eo
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Sudan’s Darfur region is facing a growing risk of genocide as the world’s attention is focused on conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, a UN expert warns.
She said many civilians were targeted based on their ethnicity in Sudan’s besieged city of El Fasher, where fierce fighting has intensified in recent days.
El Fasher is the last major urban centre in the Darfur region that remains in the hands of Sudan’s army.The military has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in a civil war that has killed thousands and forced millions from their homes.Local resident Ibrahim al-Tayeb al-Faki told the BBC his sister was killed in a military airstrike that had also destroyed his home.The 47-year-old told the BBC he had sent his three children to live with their grandfather but his house was also hit.
Listen to the full BBC Newsday interviewSimilar fears of a possible genocide in Darfur were expressed by Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently.A report from the campaign group said ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity had been committed against ethnic Massalit and non-Arab communities in the region by the paramilitary forces and its Arab allies.It called for sanctions against those responsible for the atrocities, including the RSF leader, Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti.The current violence has erupted out of a long history of tensions over resources between non-Arab farming communities, including the Massalit, and Arab pastoralist communities.The internet has been cut making access to the city difficult, as soldiers from the RSF group continue to besiege the city.The UN says about 15,000 people are feared to have been killed in the West Darfur city of El Geneina last year.Last June, West Darfur Governor Khamis Abakar was killed hours after accusing the RSF of committing genocide.
He is the most senior official known to have been killed since the conflict began in April.The RSF says it is not involved in what it describes as a “tribal conflict” in Darfur.The paramilitary group emerged from the Janjaweed militia which was accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing against non-Arab communities in Darfur in 2003, after rebels took up arms, accusing the government of ignoring the region.
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