PARIS: Amnesty International (AI) said on Thursday that extensive war crimes are being carried out by both parties in Sudan since April.
The human rights group said in a report that the crimes carried out by the two warring parties, led by two rivals generals, included sexual violence against women and the indiscriminate targeting of civilian populations.
Widespread War Crimes in Sudan’s ‘Unimaginable Horror’: AI
Since April 15, Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has been locked in a war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, Arab media reported.
“Civilians across Sudan are suffering unimaginable horror daily y as the RSF and Sudanese military irresponsibly compete for control of the country,” Amnesty Secretary-general Agnes Callamard said.
She asked the RSF and SAF to end targeting civilians and also provide a guarantee for the safe passage of those, who seeking safety.
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Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan came to power, with RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo as his deputy, in an Oct 2021 coup that also derailed a fragile transition to civilian rule after the military’s ouster of Omar Al-Bashir in April 2019 following an uprising. But the two generals then fell out in a bitter dispute.
Fighting between the army and RSF broke out on April 15 as both sides vied for power amid a planned transition to civilian government. As many as 580 people have been killed in Khartoum, and over 3 million become homeless, throwing the African nation into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
