Witness testimony and other evidence collected by Human Rights Watch (HRW) gives further light to reports of ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity committed in Sudan's West Darfur region in a new document published Thursday.
Following the outbreak of the Sudanese Civil War between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an Arab-led paramilitary force, in April of last year, HRW collated 221 witness statements that documents the campaign of ethnic cleansing conducted by RSF forces against Sudan’s non-Arab Masalit tribe in West Darfur.According to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published on Thursday, thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in the capital of Sudan's West Darfur, El Geneina.
This is a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions, with reports that more massacres could be coming. UN officials and diplomats from a number of countries are doing all they can to deescalate the situation, urging all parties to respect the sanctity of human life and international humanitarian law.
It's undisputed that the situation in Sudan is calamitous and needs urgent attention. However, rather than getting better, the situation appears to be getting worse, and appears to be exacerbated by the fact that diplomats haven't come up with a cogent strategy and are fighting among themselves about how to go about solving the problem.