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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

A Sudanese woman and a small child with a bandaged head in a makeshift tent
An injured child who was among thousands to flee after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized El Fasher and inflicted ethnically targeted massacres and rapes. Photograph: M Abaker/AP

Britain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian.

Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least ambitious” option of four presented.

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