{"id":41025,"date":"2026-02-20T03:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41025"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:04:26","slug":"un-finds-genocide-signs-in-el-fasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41025","title":{"rendered":"UN finds &#8216;genocide signs&#8217; in El-Fasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The United Nations&#8217; independent fact-finding mission on Sudan said on Thursday the siege and capture of El-Fasher by a paramilitary group bore &#8220;the hallmarks of genocide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Its investigation concluded that the Rapid Support Forces&#8217; (RSF) seizure of the city in Darfur state in October had inflicted &#8220;three days of absolute horror&#8221; and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>The mission warned that &#8220;urgent protection of civilians is needed, now more than ever&#8221; in neighbouring Kordofan state, the flashpoint of fighting since the RSF&#8217;s capture of El-Fasher, which was marked by ethnic massacres, sexual violence and detention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scale, coordination and public endorsement of the operation by senior RSF leadership demonstrate that the crimes committed in and around El-Fasher were not random excesses of war,&#8221; said mission chairman Mohamad Chande Othman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They formed part of a planned and organised operation that bears the defining characteristics of genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since April 2023, the conflict between Sudan&#8217;s army and the paramilitary RSF has killed tens of thousands and forced 11 million people to flee their homes.<\/p>\n<p>It has triggered what the UN says is one of the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations&#8217; independent fact-finding mission on Sudan said on Thursday the siege and capture of El-Fasher by a paramilitary group bore &#8220;the hallmarks of genocide&#8221;. Its investigation concluded that the Rapid Support Forces&#8217; (RSF) seizure of the city in Darfur state in October had inflicted &#8220;three days of absolute horror&#8221; and called for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}