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Yale Report Says RSF Committed Mass Killings in El-Fasher and Moved to Erase the Evidence

International organizations demand immediate safe access to El-Fasher for relief and forensic documentation.

FILE - Sudanese refugee girls carry water supplies near a polling station in the refugee camp of Zamzam, on the outskirts of El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan, on April 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
FILE.- Sudanese families displaced from El-Fasher reach out as aid workers distribute food supplies at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali,File)
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Yale report unveils RSF attempt to cover up Sudan atrocities, mass burials

Overview

  • Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified roughly 150 clusters consistent with human remains in and around El-Fasher after the RSF takeover on October 26, with many clusters shrinking or vanishing by late November.
  • Researchers documented patterns of door-to-door and execution-style killings, attacks on people fleeing the city, and killings at detention and military-linked sites.
  • Satellite and open-source indicators showed burning, disturbed earth and reddish discoloration consistent with blood, supporting an assessment of systematic efforts to conceal the crimes.
  • The lab assesses large-scale, systematic killing and body disposal likely in the tens of thousands, while noting remote-sensing methods cannot produce a precise death toll.
  • Conflict violence is expanding, with at least 104 civilians and six Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers killed in recent Kordofan drone strikes, the WHO reporting over 1,600 killed in attacks on health facilities this year, and a new UN rights report finding more than 1,000 civilians killed when the RSF seized Darfur’s Zamzam camp in April.