Statement on the Mass Killings and Atrocities in El Fasher, Sudan: Mass Killings, Ethnic Cleansing, and Atrocity Crimes in El Fasher

 


Statement on the Mass Killings and Atrocities in El Fasher, Sudan

By Hammonade W.S. Alkry-Keala (Alkrty), Human Rights Activist
Based on reports published by The Guardian (29–30 October 2025) and verified international sources.


Mass Killings, Ethnic Cleansing, and Atrocity Crimes in El Fasher

The recent reports from El Fasher, North Darfur, confirm one of the darkest episodes of mass violence since the beginning of Sudan’s civil war in April 2023.
According to The Guardian (Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi and agencies, 29 October 2025), the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—a paramilitary group that evolved from the Janjaweed militias—have reportedly executed over 2,000 unarmed civilians in the city of El Fasher over the past few days, following their capture of the city from the Sudanese Armed Forces.

Video evidence released by local activists, as cited by The Guardian, shows RSF fighters shooting civilians at point-blank range while others lie dead near burned-out vehicles. Satellite imagery analyzed by the Yale University Humanitarian Research Lab revealed evidence consistent with mass killings and ethnic cleansing targeting the Fur, Zaghawa, and Berti non-Arab communities.

The Yale Lab described the violence as part of a “systematic and intentional process of ethnic cleansing”, involving door-to-door executions, mass graves, and forced displacement. Its director, Nathaniel Raymond, compared the scale of atrocities in El Fasher to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide, warning that this marks “the beginning of a wave of violence.”


Atrocities in Hospitals and Civilian Zones

Further reporting by The Guardian (Rachel Savage, Southern Africa Correspondent, 30 October 2025) revealed that the RSF killed more than 460 patients and staff inside the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Sudan Doctors Network condemned these killings, describing them as deliberate and cold-blooded executions.

Satellite images reviewed by the Yale Lab between 27–28 October 2025 identified clusters of human-sized white objects and red discolorations near the hospital, consistent with mass graves and pools of blood.
The report also documented mass executions at RSF detention sites and along the eastern earth walls of the city, used as killing zones.

Eyewitnesses told The Associated Press that RSF fighters went house to house, shooting men, women, and children, and that many civilians died on the streets while attempting to flee. One survivor described the city as “a killing field, bodies everywhere, people bleeding, and no one to help them.”


Humanitarian and Ethical Implications

These atrocities follow the same pattern witnessed in Geneina (West Darfur) in 2023, when up to 15,000 civilians—mostly non-Arabs—were massacred by RSF fighters. The RSF’s seizure of El Fasher now gives them full control over all five Darfur state capitals, consolidating power across western Sudan.

Humanitarian agencies, including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC), report that the nearby town of Tawila is overwhelmed with tens of thousands of wounded and displaced survivors fleeing El Fasher.
UN officials warn that 260,000 civilians, half of them children, remain trapped without food, water, or medical assistance, with many resorting to eating animal fodder to survive.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has expressed grave concern about the ethnically motivated nature of the killings, describing them as potential crimes against humanity and acts of genocide.


Call for Immediate International Action

The events unfolding in El Fasher represent not merely a local tragedy but a continuation of the genocidal campaign that has plagued Darfur for two decades. The international community—particularly the United Nations Security Council, the African Union, and the Quartet Group (United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE)—must immediately:

  1. Launch an independent international investigation into the mass killings in El Fasher and the Saudi Hospital massacre.

  2. Impose targeted sanctions on RSF leaders and their financial and political backers.

  3. Ensure humanitarian corridors for civilians trapped in RSF-controlled areas.

  4. Support ICC investigations and prosecutions for atrocity crimes committed by the RSF and associated forces.

The RSF’s history of genocidal conduct, coupled with current evidence of ethnic cleansing and summary executions, confirms that Sudan is entering a new phase of organized extermination.
Silence, delay, or diplomatic caution will only embolden the perpetrators and perpetuate impunity.


Final Statement

As a Sudanese human rights activist, I, Hammonade W.S. Alkry-Keala (Alkrty), join my voice with that of survivors, displaced civilians, and international observers in condemning these atrocities in the strongest possible terms.

The world must not stand by as Darfur burns again.
El Fasher must not become another Geneina, another Rwanda, another Srebrenica.
Justice delayed is justice denied — and for the people of Darfur, justice is long overdue.


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