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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rachel Savage, Carlos Mureithi, Laure Boulinier and Elena Morresi

A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher

Displaced families from El Fasher arrive in Tawila, Darfur region.
Displaced families from El Fasher arrive in Tawila, Darfur region. Photograph: NRC/AP

Hundreds of patients and staff massacred at a hospital; unarmed men of fighting age separated and shot at close range; civilians trying to flee stripped of their belongings and extorted for ransom; perpetrators filming much of the violence themselves.

The reports of atrocities that have emerged from the Sudanese city of El Fasher since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last weekend follow a familiar pattern.

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