Overview
- The UN-appointed mission says the RSF’s siege and October 2025 capture of Al-Fashir were planned operations that display the characteristic elements of genocide and require accountability.
- Investigators cite 320 eyewitness interviews and video evidence documenting mass killings, executions, sexual violence, kidnappings for ransom, torture, child recruitment, and the use of starvation as a weapon.
- The report finds attacks targeted non-Arab communities, notably Zaghawa and Fur, with explicit threats to cleanse the city of those groups.
- The U.S. Treasury sanctioned three RSF commanders for roles in the siege and assault, including a brigade general recorded killing unarmed civilians, and called for a humanitarian cease-fire.
- Forensic researchers at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab estimate at least 60,000 people may have been killed in the weeks after the city fell, as fighting shifts toward North Kordofan with RSF pressure on Al-Obeid.