Rights Watch accuses Sudan’s paramilitary of ethnic killings

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, and allied militias killed “thousands of people” in West Darfur state and committed “crimes against humanity and genocide,” according to a report released today by Human Rights Watch. The report says attacks on the Masalit tribe and other non-Arab groups last year were some of the worst atrocities in the ongoing civil war that began in April 2023. Jean Baptiste Gallopin, a co-author of the report, tells VOA’s Carol Van Dam, the information is based on over ten months of research with several trips made to Chad, Kenya, and South Sudan, where researchers met survivors from el-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur.