Hundreds may have been executed in capture of Sudanese city, UN rights office says

Hundreds of Sudanese civilians and unarmed fighters may have been killed during the Sudanese paramilitary forces’ capture of the long-besieged city of Al-Fashir, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.

The city, the Sudanese army’s last significant holdout in the western region of Darfur, fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Sunday, ending an 18-month siege.

“We estimate the death toll of civilians and those placed hors de combat during the RSF attack on the city and its exit routes, as well as in the days after the takeover, could amount to hundreds,” U.N. human rights office spokesperson Seif Magango told a Geneva press briefing on Friday, describing testimonies of summary executions and mass killings.

One witness described the killing of a couple of hundred men by fi