The Fall of El Fasher

Over the weekend (of the reporting), the RSF announced that they had finally taken control of El Fasher, effectively splitting the country into two separate zones of control. The RSF stated they had captured El Fasher "from the grip of mercenaries and militias allied with the terrorist army."

For months, rights groups and the UN warned of the risk to civilians should the RSF seize El Fasher. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk highlighted the risk of large-scale ethnically-driven attacks and atrocities in the city by the RSF.

Atrocities and Ethnic Cleansing

Both the armed forces and the RSF have been accused of committing war crimes and atrocities, but in January, the United States accused the RSF of committing genocide against Darfur's non-Arab population.

Evidence quickly emerged of horrific violence after El Fasher fell:

1. Torture
2. Door-to-door targeted killings of men, women, and children
3. People murdered as they tried to flee
4. Verified footage too grim to show, filmed by RSF soldiers themselves as they carried out the acts
5. Massacring civilians, destroying neighborhoods
6. Blood visible from space
7. More than 2,000 people killed in just 2 days in some areas
8. Lining up black women and black men in villages and shooting them all
9. Attacking maternity wards

A UN official stated at the Security Council: "Can anyone here say that we did not know this was coming? We cannot hear the screams. But as we sit here today, the horror is continuing. Women and girls are being raped. People mutilated and killed with utter impunity."

There's now an army which is on the run and an army by RSF which has put together a number of mercenaries - it's a war that really represents a new form of colonialism with Arab nationalist forces being funded and armed by the United Arab Emirates attacking black African tribes.