Between 10.000 and 15.000 people were killed in the town of Geneina in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the Rapid Support Force (RSF) paramilitary group and their Arab militia allies, according to a United Nations report.
Independent UN observers refer to intelligence sources on the war in Sudan between the Sudanese army and the RSF that broke out on April 15, 2023.
Between April and June last year, "intense violence" took place in the town of Geneina, the UN observers said, and accused members of the RSF and their allies of attacks on the Masalit tribal community, with the assessment that these attacks "may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."
"The attacks were planned, coordinated and carried out by the RSF and their allied Arab militias," according to a report by UN observers to the Security Council.
Survivors described bloody crimes in the town of Geneina, about 30 kilometers from the border with Chad, where people tried to escape.
The RSF has previously denied such accusations, claiming that RSF members found to be involved in crimes will be brought to justice.
Conflicts in Sudan, a country with 46 million inhabitants in northeast Africa, they broke out in April last year due to a dispute between Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah el-Burhan, who chairs Sudan's Sovereign Council, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagal, known as Hemedti, his deputy in that council and head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF). Hemdti demands that his troops officially join the Sudanese army.
