Geneva – The atrocities unleashed on Sudan’s El-Fasher last October were a “preventable human rights catastrophe,” the U.N. human rights chief said Monday, warning they now risked being repeated in Kordofan.
Giving the U.N. Human Rights Council an update on the situation in El-Fasher, Volker Turk decried the horrific scenes after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) unleashed a “wave of intense violence,” following 18 months of brutal siege.
“Thousands of people were killed in a matter of days, and tens of thousands fled in terror,” he said, stressing the need to “hold those responsible accountable, and to make sure this never happens again.”
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