El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was for eighteen months not merely a besieged city: The Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

  El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was for eighteen months not merely a besieged city: The Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was for eighteen months not merely a besieged city — it was a death trap, a city transformed into a cage. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary formation born from the blood-soaked legacy of the Janjaweed, encircled it with iron and fire, cutting off food, medicine, and hope from the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped within its walls. What followed was not simply a military campaign — it was a methodical and deliberate campaign of annihilation, of racial and ethnic terror, of crimes so grave they demand the language of international law to be named: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes.