Sudan Rebel Attack Had Hallmarks of Genocide, UN Experts Say
Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces, in western Darfur.
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Sudanese rebels who captured a key Darfur city last year targeted non-Arab communities in a bloody campaign that carried the “hallmarks of genocide,” United Nations experts said.
The Rapid Support Forces militia, which is battling Sudan’s army in an almost three-year civil war, was responsible for a “systematic pattern of ethnically targeted killings, sexual violence” and destruction around El-Fasher, an independent international fact-finding mission said Thursday in a report.