Sudan's RSF committed crimes against humanity in el-Fasher, Amnesty says

Amnesty believes RSF fighters committed grave human rights violations in and around el-Fasher during its 18-month siege of the city. "Children were not collateral damage of this violence – often, they were deliberately targeted and have suffered immensely. They have been killed, injured, raped, abducted, and forcibly recruited on a massive scale," said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary general. In its report that details dozens of accounts of more than 200 survivors, Amnesty said evidence gathered "may be relevant to the crime of genocide". "They tied me up and beat me with sticks and the back of an AK-47. Then one of them approached on a camel and… just shot me in the leg," said a 17-year-old who was attacked in Abu Zerega, a town south of el Fasher. The teenage boy, who now uses crutches to walk, said eight of his cousins, including four boys aged between 11 and 17, were killed in the same attack. Amnesty researchers, who reviewed 89 open-source videos and carried out extensive analysis of satellite imagery from North Darfur, say many victims were targeted and killed because of their ethnic identity. Arab fighters from the RSF went after members of local non-Arab communities, according to the rights group. Witnesses also spoke about mass killings, sexual violence, and the deliberate targeting of children. …