NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) 鈥� Three senior commanders of Sudan鈥檚 paramilitary forces were named in a new report from rights group Amnesty International accusing them of overseeing war crimes during the siege and capture of el-Fasher in North Darfur in October.
Speaking on Wednesday during the launch of the report in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya, Amnesty International Secretary General Agn猫s Callamard said the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, committed crimes against humanity and acts of ethnic cleansing during the assault on the city. She called for an immediate ceasefire and the deployment of a United Nations protection force to safeguard civilians.
in three days in October 2025 when the RSF seized el-Fasher in an attack that U.N. experts said bore the 鈥渉allmarks of genocide.鈥�
Amnesty International analyzed nine videos that showed one RSF commander executing civilians, another torturing detainees, and a third ordering the torture of prisoners.
Callamard said the RSF committed murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution. She urged the international community to intervene and stop the attacks on civilians that continue 鈥渦nhindered鈥�.
鈥淚t also requires strengthening accountability by ensuring sufficient support for all existing accountability mechanisms for Sudan, including the International Criminal Court, and U.N. and African Union-backed fact-finding missions. Commanders identified in this report should be investigated and, where there is sufficient admissible evidence, prosecuted,鈥� Callamard said.
The RSF has not commented on the Amnesty report. Amnesty International said it shared the report with the paramilitary group鈥檚 leader, Gen. , last month but had not received a response.
The war in Sudan erupted in April 2023, after long-simmering tensions between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. The conflict has killed , displaced some 13 million, and pushed . More than 30 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
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