After Sudan massacres, the world said ‘never again’ – then did nothing
About 200,000 civilians remain trapped in El-Fasher, and hundreds of thousands in a nearby refugee camp are at risk. All options must be on the table to protect them.
This satellite image taken by Airbus DS shows two reddish stains on the ground near what are probably RSF vehicles in El-Fasher in late October. AP
Mutasim Ali and Yonah Diamond
AN unprecedented massacre is taking place in Sudan’s North Darfur region, and it is somehow being met with near-total international indifference.
After its takeover of El-Fasher in Darfur last month, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has undertaken a genocidal campaign of door-to-door mass executions, targeting unarmed non-Arab civilians. The scale of killing is so shocking that pools of what may be blood are observable from space, as captured by satellite imagery analysis. An estimated 2000 civilians were killed within the first 48 hours of the takeover alone.
