"RSF units broke through and have captured the city, triggering the panicked flight of its remaining starving civilians. The victorious militias, which are predominantly ethnically Arab, have gone on a shocking killing rampage of the local non-Arab population. The violence echoes the genocidal slaughters carried out by the Janjaweed militia - the RSF's predecessor - in Darfur two decades ago. Eyewitnesses reported numerous incidents of summary executions, rapes and other abuse."
"For 18 months, the residents of El Fashir, once a regional capital of over a million people, endured a grueling siege, punctuated by massacres and other atrocities carried out by the RSF's fighters. No humanitarian aid could get in, and the attackers walled off the city with a sand berm. A full-blown famine hit the communities trapped within and in nearby displacement camps. Locals subsisted off animal feed, weeds and peanut shells."
El Fashir endured an 18-month siege that prevented humanitarian aid and left residents starving, surviving on animal feed, weeds and peanut shells. The city was the last stronghold of Sudan's armed forces in western Darfur while the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized surrounding territory after the 2023 civil war. RSF fighters carried out massacres and other atrocities during the siege and then broke through to capture the city, triggering mass flight of starving civilians. Predominantly Arab RSF militias have reportedly executed, raped and targeted non-Arab residents, echoing Janjaweed-era genocidal campaigns. International pleas for intervention have failed to halt the violence.
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