CAIRO: Human Rights Watch has called upon the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to look for all options to protect civilians in Sudan’s conflict-hit Darfur region, after hundreds of civilians killed in the latest attacks.
Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been at war since April, when months of tension turned into open fighting in Khartoum, and other urban areas.
According to Human Rights Watch in the first week of November, the RSF and their allied forces attacked the town of Ardamata, a few kilometers north of Geneina, the provincial capital of West Darfur.
It said the attackers after taking over the control of a military base in Ardamata, rampaged through the camp for displaced people and other residential areas inhabited by the African Masalit tribe.
HRW said people who fled Ardamata recalled the horrific spree of killings, unlawful detentions, sexual violence, shelling, ill-treatment, and looting in the town.
The group said the RSF and their allied militias killed civilians as they fled, and executed people in their homes, shelters, and in the streets.
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Mohammed Osman, HRW’s Sudan researcher, said the attack on Ardamata was the RSF’s latest incident of ethnically targeted killings.
Earlier the European Union (EU) expressed serious concern over the reports of more than 1,000 people killed in Sudan’s West Darfur region this month by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
According to an estimate by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project more than 10,000 people have been killed in the Sudan conflict so far.
According to UN figures the conflict has displaced more than 4.8 million people inside Sudan and has compelled a further 1.2m to flee into neighbouring countries.
