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UN Human Rights Council Orders Urgent El-Fasher Atrocities Probe

Investigators will document violations in the captured Darfur city to identify perpetrators for accountability.

Overview

  • The council adopted by consensus a resolution tasking the independent fact-finding mission to urgently investigate events in El-Fasher and name suspected perpetrators.
  • UN officials report mass killings, ethnically targeted executions, widespread sexual violence, abductions and attacks on health facilities since the RSF took the city on October 26.
  • The World Health Organization says more than 450 people were killed during an RSF rampage at the Saudi Hospital, as rights experts describe El-Fasher as a crime scene.
  • UN figures indicate nearly 100,000 people fled in the past two weeks with famine conditions and blocked aid access triggering appeals for a ceasefire and humanitarian corridors.
  • The resolution stops short of mandating a probe into alleged external support for the RSF, while the ICC moves to preserve evidence and the UN warns violence is spreading toward Kordofan.