On October 26, fighters of the Arab militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF) finally overran the strategic capital of Darfur, El Fasher, after 550 days of siege. Then ensued what the UN has called a “genocidal massacre”. Men, women and children were systematically raped, tortured, mowed down and buried in mass graves hastily dug by bulldozers. Most were of the African Zaghawa tribe.
Amy Pope, director general of the UN’s International Organization for Migration, has described Sudan as “the largest refugee displacement crisis in the world”. Yet most of the world isn’t taking much notice.
