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Rebel fighter shown shooting unarmed civilians sitting on the ground in Sudan; over 2,000 civilians, mainly women and children, executed in 48 hours as paramilitary forces capture city

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5c130fc64b5703419142b363e930b77b wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>More than 2&comma;000 civilians&comma; mainly women and children&comma; are executed in 48 hours&comma; <strong>October 26 and 27&comma; <&sol;strong>as a Sudanese city is captured by rebel paramilitary group<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fd65240b881f35fd7473cada35ea49f1 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Allies of the army&comma; the Joint Forces&comma; said on Tuesday that the RSF &&num;8216&semi;committed heinous crimes against innocent civilians in el-Fasher<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8db2e3a3bf4f3d5ae90bdb288cbffd04 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Conflict has raged in the Darfur region for two and half years between the Sudanese Armed Forces &lpar;SAF&rpar; the paramilitary rebel Rapid Support Forces &lpar;SAF&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f6f07cc49e6e5d5be033f1053b533c31 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>150&comma;000 people have been killed in the conflict&comma; with a greater percentage being civilians caught in the crossfire<&sol;strong>&ast;&ast;&ast;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8a81bdea6843140c86a59ab82fcccc2e wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The western Sudanese city fell to the Rapid Support Forces &lpar;RSF&rpar; after more than 18 months of brutal siege warfare&comma; giving the group control over every state capital in the vast Darfur region<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d1ca443901025530238c07ca50800d8b wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Monitors relying on open source intelligence and satellite imagery&comma; say the city &&num;8216&semi;appears to be in a systematic and intentional process of ethnic cleansing <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-010941278dbbc29c20e6613577d6beca wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Paramilitaries target of Fur&comma; Zaghawa&comma; and Berti indigenous non-Arab communities through forced displacement and summary execution&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3695d5fad7537c9b00893eb79f442285 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The Purge includes what appeared to be &&num;8216&semi;door-to-door clearance operations&&num;8217&semi; in the city <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-846464f861a6c059cd48d6334cbc34d1 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;200404&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Office of the UN rights chief acknowledged that it was &&num;8216&semi;receiving multiple&comma; alarming reports that the Rapid Support Forces are carrying out atrocities&comma; including summary execution<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Sudanese-civilians-fleeingfrom-RSF-paramilitaries-soldiers-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-488089" style&equals;"width&colon;783px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sudanese civilians fleeing from the paramilitaries&comma; who have been accused of genocide in the conflict&period; Over<strong> 2&comma;000 people&comma; mainly women and children&comma; have been reportedly executed in the last 48 hours in Sudan after the city of El-Fasher was captured by<&sol;strong> Rapid Support Forces &lpar;RSF&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Amidst tales of escalating genocide in Sudan&&num;8217&semi;s war-torn region&comma; it has been reported that more than 2&comma;000 people&comma; mainly women and children&comma; have been executed in the last 48 hours after the city of el-Fasher in south west Sudan was captured by rebel paramilitaries&period; <br>el Fasher was the last remaining major city in Darfur controlled by the army&period; The city falling after more than 18 months of brutal siege warfare&comma; gives the Rapid Support Forces &lpar;RSF&rpar;&comma; control over over all five state capitals in Darfur and marks a significant turning point in the war&period;<br>The conflict which has raged&comma; going on two and half years&comma; between the between the Sudanese Armed Forces &lpar;SAF&rpar; and the paramilitary rebel RSF group in Darfur&period; <br>The conflict which has recorded 150&comma;000 deaths&comma; mostly civilians from non-Arab groups has displaced&period; over 14 million Sudanese nationals&period;<br>Allies of the army&comma; the Joint Forces&comma; on Tuesday announced that the RSF &&num;8216&semi;committed heinous crimes against innocent civilians in el-Fasher&comma; where more than 2&comma;000 unarmed citizens were executed and killed between October 26 and 27&comma; most of them women&comma; children and the elderly&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Unarmed-Sudanese-menn-sat-down-and-shot-by-paramilitary-soldiers-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-488095"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>A video released by local activists and authenticated by AFP shows a fighter known for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The wave of genocide appears to have justified fears expressed earlier by local groups and international NGOs who warned that the fall of el-Fasher could trigger mass atrocities&period;<br>The monitors relying on open source intelligence and satellite imagery&comma; say the city &&num;8216&semi;appears to be in a systematic and intentional process of ethnic cleansing of Fur&comma; Zaghawa&comma; and Berti indigenous non-Arab communities through forced displacement and summary execution&&num;8217&semi;&period; <br>The purge includes what appeared to be &&num;8216&semi;door-to-door clearance operations&&num;8217&semi; in the city&period;<br>A video released by local activists&comma; that has been authenticated by AFP&comma; shows a fighter known for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range&period;<br>A report published on Monday charges that actions of RSF &&num;8216&semi;may be consistent with war crimes and crimes against humanity and may rise to the level of genocide&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Troops-of-Sudans-paramilitary-Rapid-Support-Forces-RSF-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-488099" style&equals;"width&colon;782px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Paramilitaries have a record of atrocities&comma; having killed over 15&comma;000 civilians from non-Arab groups in the West Darfur capital of el-Geneina&period; New report alleges actions of RSF &&num;8216&semi;may be consistent with war crimes and crimes against humanity and may rise to the level of genocide&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The UN rights chief Volker Turk speaking on Monday emphasized a growing risk of &&num;8216&semi;ethnically motivated violations and atrocities&&num;8217&semi; in el-Fasher&period;<br>Turk&&num;8217&semi;s office has acknowledged that it was &&num;8216&semi;receiving multiple&comma; alarming reports that the Rapid Support Forces are carrying out atrocities&comma; including summary executions&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>Pro-democracy activists&comma; meanwhile&comma; said el-Fasher residents had endured &&num;8216&semi;the worst forms of violence and ethnic cleansing&&num;8217&semi; since the RSF claimed control&period;<br>The paramilitaries have a track record of atrocities&comma; having killed as many as 15&comma;000 civilians from non-Arab groups in the West Darfur capital of El-Geneina&period;<br>The northeast African nation was plunged into a deadly conflict in mid-April 2023&comma; when long-simmering tensions about the future of the country between the Sudanese Armed Forces &lpar;SAF&rpar; and the head of the paramilitary rebel group erupted&period; <br>Fighting exploded in the capital Khartoum but rapidly spread&comma; where it is now estimated that at least 150&comma;000 people have been killed&comma; including many civilians&period;<br>The civil war has forced more than 14 million people to flee their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine swept parts of the country&period;<br>An investigation by Amnesty International suggests that RSF rebels have waged a calculated campaign of sexual violence against defenseless civilians&comma; using rape&comma; murder and torture to terrorize&comma; demoralize and subjugate the population living in areas they seized&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Burning-vehicles-and-bodies-in-el-Fasher-Sudan-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-488113" style&equals;"width&colon;802px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Burning vehicles and bodies in el-Fasher&comma; Sudan as the city fell to RSF paramilitary<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Disturbing accusations of human rights falls on both sides of the conflict with the army&comma; which has been fighting the RSF for two-and-a-half years&comma; also been accused of war crimes&period;<br>The year and a half of siege warfare on el-Fasher created one of the grimmest places in a war the UN labelled among the world&&num;8217&semi;s worst humanitarian crises&period; Displacement camps outside the city were officially declared to be in famine&period; <br>According to the UN&comma; more than 1 million people have fled el Fasher&comma; while 260&comma;000 people remained trapped there without aid&comma; half of them children&period; Those trapped within the city turned to animal fodder for food&period; <br>On Tuesday&comma; African Union chairman Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expressed &&num;8216&semi;deep concern over the escalating violence and reported atrocities&&num;8217&semi;&period; He also condemned &&num;8216&semi;alleged war crimes and ethnically targeted killings of civilians&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>Sudan&&num;8217&semi;s army chief&comma; General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan&comma; acknowledging the loss of the strategic city on Monday said his forces had withdrawn from El-Fasher &&num;8216&semi;to a safer location&&num;8217&semi;&comma; &period;<br>General al-Burhan pledged to fight &&num;8216&semi;until this land is purified&&num;8217&semi;&comma; but analysts said that Sudan was now effectively partitioned along an east-west axis&comma; with the RSF having already set up a parallel government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Refugees-at-a-camp-for-displaced-families-who-fled-al-Fashir-to-Tawila-in-North-Darfur-Sudan&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-488114" style&equals;"width&colon;833px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Refugees at a camp for displaced families who fled el-Fasher&comma; to Tawila in North Darfur&comma; Sudan<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">With many voices suggesting that the key to resolving the current crises would be a political solution&comma; an international group comprising of the UAE alongside the United States&comma; Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been working for a negotiated peace&period; <br>The group has proposed a ceasefire and a transitional civilian government that excludes both the army and the RSF from power structure&period; However&comma; talks a few days back in Washington involving the Quad made no progress&period;<br>Ironically UAE has been accused by the UN of supplying the RSF with weapons&comma; a charge it denies&period; <br>The army reportedly&comma; has its own foreign backers in Egypt&comma; Saudi Arabia&comma; Iran and Turkey all of whom have denied the claims&period;<br>In March the army retook full control of the Sudanese capital Khartoum&comma; but it is now excluded from a third of Sudanese territory&period; <br>With both sides now having achieved significant gains neither appears willing to compromise in negotiations&period; A development pointing more to the possibility the country the end could be partitioned as a compromise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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