Sudan paramilitary forces accused of genocide as civil war rages

Key Facts

• The area is the focus of the 186-page HRW report "'The Massalit Will Not Come Home': Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in El-Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan."
• • U.S. family finally reunited after escaping Sudan's civil war From late April until early November of last year, the RSF and allied militias "conducted a systematic campaign to remove, including by killing, ethnic Massalit residents," according to HRW.
• Displaced Sudanese national Adam Hassan sits outside his makeshift shelter at a camp in Adre, Chad, with pictures of his son and father, whom he said were killed by the RSF and Arab militias in the West Darfur town of Murnei, in a July 25, 2023 file photo.
• The context of the killings further "raises the possibility that the RSF and their allies have the intent to destroy in whole or in part the Massalit in at least West Darfur, which would indicate that genocide has been and/or is being committed there," it added.

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