Extensive war crimes being committed in Sudan, says Amnesty FMTNews FMTWorld
The fighting in Sudan has killed more than 3,900 people and displaced more than 3.3 million.
Since April 15, regular army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been locked in a war with his former deputy, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. Burhan came to power, with Daglo as his number two, in an October 2021 coup that derailed a fragile transition to civilian rule after the military’s ouster of long-ruling autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April 2019 following a popular uprising.The fighting – concentrated in Khartoum and the western region of Darfur – has killed more than 3,900 people, according to the NGO Acled and displaced more than 3.3 million, according to the UN.
Amnesty said scores of women and girls, some as young as 12, have been subjected to sexual violence, including rape, with some held for days in conditions of sexual slavery.