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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’

Masked paramilitaries stand up in an open-top vehicle while carrying guns
Armed defectors from the Rapid Support Forces arrive to surrender to the Sudanese military in Omdurman on 19 August. Photograph: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP/Getty Images

Senior Sudanese commanders implicated in a “campaign of rape” have been targeted by the UK on the first anniversary of a mass atrocity that saw tens of thousands of civilians killed over several days.

A year after the fall of El Fasher, the British government said it had sanctioned military leaders from both sides in the country’s ongoing conflict whom it suspected of sexual violence during the siege of the city.

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