{"id":491264,"date":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491264\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","slug":"militia-strikes-kill-at-least-60-in-sudan-displacement-camp-says-el-fasher-group-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/491264\/","title":{"rendered":"Militia strikes kill at least 60 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group | Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Militia drone and artillery strikes have killed at least 60 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El Fasher in western Sudan<\/a>, a local activist group has said.<\/p>\n

The Resistance Committee for El Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group hit the Dar al-Arqam displacement centre, which is in the grounds of a university.<\/p>\n

Bodies remained trapped in the rubble, the committee said in a statement, describing it as a \u201cmassacre\u201d and calling on the international community to intervene. It said in a later statement that the shelter had been hit twice by drones and eight times by artillery shells on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

Map showing drone strikes in Sudan<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cChildren, women and the elderly were killed in cold blood, and many were completely burned,\u201d said the committee, which is part of a group of activists who coordinate aid and document abuses in the Sudan conflict. \u201cThe situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The RSF has been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in a civil war since April 2023. Its militants have put El Fasher under siege for more than 500 days<\/a>, and families there are starving.<\/p>\n

El Fasher \u2013 home to 400,000 people \u2013 is the last state capital in the region of Darfur that has not been taken by the RSF. It has become a strategic front in the war as the paramilitaries attempt to consolidate control in the west.<\/p>\n

The UN has described<\/a> the Sudan war as one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century. More than 150,000 people<\/a> have been killed and more than 14 million<\/a> displaced. Nearly 25 million people have been forced into acute hunger.<\/p>\n

Countrywide fighting, fuelled by international powers<\/a>, has raged in the absence of an effective global effort to end the bloodshed.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, said he was \u201cappalled by the RSF\u2019s endless and wanton disregard for civilian life\u201d in El Fasher.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cDespite repeated calls, including my own, for specific care to be taken to protect civilians, they continue instead to kill, injure and displace civilians, and to attack civilian objects, including [internally displaced people\u2019s] shelters, hospitals and mosques, with total disregard for international law. This must end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sudan\u2019s current conflict erupted in 2023, but is part of decades of violence. On Monday, the international criminal court (ICC) took its first action against a suspect of crimes in Darfur when it convicted a leader of a militia<\/a> for atrocities committed there more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known by the nom de guerre Ali Kushayb, was accused of being a leader of the Janjaweed militia, a group from which the RSF developed.<\/p>\n

The former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir<\/a> is also wanted by the ICC on genocide charges.<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrk said the RSF, and all parties to the conflict, should \u201cdraw lessons from this week\u2019s conviction of Ali Kushayb\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reuters and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Militia drone and artillery strikes have killed at least 60 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-491264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115356150314350023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}