Since October 26, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has being carrying out a brutal massacre of civilians in Darfur state in Sudan — particularly in and around El Fasher, the state capital.

The Yale Human Rights Laboratory estimates that “nearly 250,000 civilians who were in El Fasher before October 26 may have been killed, died, been displaced, or remain in hiding and unable to move”.

The actual number of people killed is hard to confirm because communication with the outside world has been cut off. But accounts from survivors and satellite imagery paint a frightening picture.

The RSF’s genocide of mainly non-Arab people in Darfur has been going on for many years. Between 2003 and 2005 alone, 200,000 people were estimated to have been killed.

The RSF, which has been waging war against the Sudanese Armed Forces since 2023, is being supported and armed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which buys most of its military equipment from the United States and its Western allies, including Britain, France, Germany, Israel and Australia.

While the UAE denies arming the RSF, a report from a United Nations panel of experts, leaked in........

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