GENEVA: The UN rights chief on Thursday called the worldwide community to apply all possible pressure on the fighting sides in Sudan to determine the conflict and end “the wanton violence”.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said that the fighting has plunged “this much-suffering country into a catastrophe. He added in an address to the UN Human Rights Council’s special session on the situation in Sudan that all states with influence in the region to encourage, by all possible means, the resolution of this crisis.
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His comments through video message came as fighting continued in the capital of Sudan, forcing more and more people to make dangerous journeys across the country’s borders to safety. Over 750 people have been killed and many thousands have been displaced in the fighting that started on April 15 between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who orders the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
