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UN-backed investigators say, Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have
carried out a campaign that shows "hallmarks of genocide" against non-Arab
communities.

Investigators believe that the RSF inflicted mass killings and
starvation-like siege conditionsin the city of el-Fasher.

UN officials say thousands of civilians were killed and many others
disappeated after the city fell to the paramilitary forces in October.

The team's report describes executions, rape, torture, abductions and
selective targeting of women and girls.

It said the violence looks planned, not chaotic...

and they're calling for accountability and stronger civilian protection as
the war spreads.

Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions
between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital of
Khartoum and spread to other regions, including Darfur.

According to UN numbers, the war has so far killed more than 40,000 people.

Aid groups, however, say that's an undercount and the true number could be
many times higher.