The blood of Sudanese victims can be seen in satellite photos. In El Fasher, men, women, and children are being slaughtered without mercy, and in Sudan, an entire generation is growing up without homes, without education, and without protection.
El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, which had been under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than 16 months, was captured by the group last week. This was followed by a mass murder by the RSF, in which more than 500 patients were killed in a maternity clinic.
The Sudanese Doctors Network reports that at least 1,500 people were killed in three days and calls it “outright genocide.” The scale of the violence reminds many of the genocide in Darfur in the 2000s committed by the Janjaweed, the militant group from which the RSF emerged.
After the ousting of dictator Omar al-Bashir, there was great hope in the country that the ideals of the revolution would be achieved in 2019. A joint military-civilian government was formed, but it was overthrown in October 2021 by a new coup. This led to a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In April 2023, this escalated into a war.
The armed conflict is being sustained by foreign states such as Russia and the United Arab Emirates, which support the various warring parties in exchange for Sudanese gold, among other things. The war has now become the largest displacement crisis in the world.
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