UN Probe Finds RSF Committed Genocide in Al-Fashir Through Mass Killings Rape Abductions and Forced Starvation

The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan reported on Wednesday that Rapid Support Forces and allied fighters carried out mass killings that left more than 6,000 dead in three days during the October capture of El Fasher after an 18-month siege, along with systematic abductions of women and girls, mass gang rapes, and forced starvation, evidence the mission said constitutes distinct markers of genocide 123. Survivors told investigators they were raped in rooms where bodies of recently killed civilians, including family members, still lay on the ground 24. The mission found the RSF committed the war crime of starvation by besieging the city, blocking relief supplies, and shelling food production systems, building on its February findings of genocide hallmarks; the RSF denied the allegations, calling the accounts manufactured 24. Mission chair Mohamed Chande Othman warned that the same patterns, encirclement, infrastructure attacks, and humanitarian restrictions, are now emerging around El Obeid, a city of roughly 500,000 people including 83,000 displaced 4, where 15 verified drone strikes in three weeks in June killed at least 45 civilians 3, and where the Human Rights Council voted on July 6 to launch an urgent inquiry 13.