Darfur villages torched in echo of earlier genocide, report says

A man walks in the market of the Adre refugee camp in Chad, on April 10, 2024. Chad is home to the largest number of Sudanese refugees, nearly a million.At least nine communities in Darfur have been torched and destroyed since late March in a co-ordinated campaign of ethnically targeted violence by Sudan’s main paramilitary force and its allied militias, according to a new report based on satellite imagery.

The attacks between March 31 and April 15 targeted nine communities near El Fasher, capital of North Darfur region in the west of Sudan, triggering an exodus of displaced people. El Fasher is the only city in Darfur that has escaped capture by the RSF since the eruption of war in Sudan a year ago, and it is the main hub for humanitarian aid to the entire Darfur region.

The RSF has launched an offensive to try to capture El Fasher, home to an estimated 2.8 million people, including 500,000 who fled to the city after violent attacks in other parts of Darfur. Dozens of people have been killed in shelling by RSF forces in recent days, including displaced people living in camps around El Fasher. Civilians have also been killed when warplanes from Sudan’s air force have launched strikes aimed at RSF positions in the city.

An independent investigation by a Montreal-based group, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, reported this week that there is “clear and convincing evidence” that the RSF and its allied militias are committing genocide and inciting genocide in Darfur. The non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur are now “in a state of extreme vulnerability, without any force willing or able to protect them,” the report said.

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