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Amnesty Says RSF’s April Assault on Darfur’s Zamzam Camp Should Be Probed as War Crimes

The group presses to expand Sudan’s arms embargo, alleging weapons flows tied to the UAE empowered the attackers.

People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on April 13 that it had taken control of the famine-hit Zamzam camp, home to over 500,000 refugees according to the United Nations, after two days of heavy shelling and gunfire, amid its ongoing war with the country's army and affiliated forces. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit patrol during a rally for Dagalo, in Garawee town, north of Sudan, Saturday, June 15, 2019. (AP Photo)
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Overview

  • The report details an assault from April 11–13 that used explosive weapons and indiscriminate gunfire in populated areas, with April 16 satellite imagery showing new craters.
  • Eyewitnesses said RSF fighters shot civilians, reporting at least 47 people killed in homes, a clinic, on streets and inside a mosque.
  • Amnesty documents pillage and arson targeting homes, markets, schools and mosques, including structures in the Sheikh Farah school and mosque compound, along with hostage taking and sexual violence.
  • An estimated 400,000 people fled the camp within two days as the attack intensified, worsening already severe shortages of food, water and medical care.
  • Amnesty links the assault to the RSF drive on El Fasher, notes the group claimed the city on October 26 with executions and rapes reported, and says the RSF did not respond to queries as the UAE denies supplying arms.