Mass killings of non-Arab communities when the Rapid Support Forces RSF paramilitary group captured the Sudanese city of al-Fashir bears hallmarks that point to genocide, an independent United Nations UN probe said in a new report on Thursday.
At the end of October last year, the RSF took over the city, which had been the last remaining stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces SAF in the Darfur region in the west of the country, with thousands of people killed and raped during three days of horror, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan said.
It followed an 18-month siege where the RSF imposed conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of non-Arab communities, in particular the Zaghawa and the Fur, the report stated.
