Sudanese city had 6,000 killed in three days, UN says

[muriel_volestrangler]

More than 6,000 people were killed in just three days when Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city of el-Fasher last year, according to victims and witnesses cited in a UN report.

"It was like a scene out of a horror movie," recalled one person, who saw bodies thrown into the air as RSF fighters opened fire on 1,000 people sheltering in a university building last October.

The report cites evidence of mass killings, summary executions, torture, abductions and sexual violence against civilians. These amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, it says.
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The US and Human Rights Watch believe the RSF and its allies have waged a genocide in the western Darfur region against the Massalit people and other non-Arab communities, but recent UN reports have stopped short of calling it this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c043753z7w3o

[sarisataka]

1. Silence

No protests, no outrage, no demands and no ....

[hlthe2b]

5. Hard to have reaction when MSM did not report it--or at least not widely...

THAT is the first thing to be angry about. It is a horrific incident

That said, pre-judging as "inappropriate" or "insufficient" or any other assessment the reactions- that had no chance to occur in the void of appropriate reporting- is pretty biased or at least unfair-wouldn't you say?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. We had a certain amount of articles about it on DU

29 Oct, BBC: https://www.democraticunderground.com/113352923
30 Oct, Democracy Now!: https://www.democraticunderground.com/132159475
2 Nov, NBC: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220768019
3 Nov, MS-NOW: https://www.democraticunderground.com/132159695
3 Nov, DW/AFP/Reuters: https://www.democraticunderground.com/113353043
3 Nov, Guardian: https://www.democraticunderground.com/113353045
14 Nov, International Service for Human Rights: https://www.democraticunderground.com/113353260
14 Nov, Guardian/France 24: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220805939
23 Nov, Middle East Eye: https://www.democraticunderground.com/113353448
28 Nov, El Pais: https://www.democraticunderground.com/113353569

[hlthe2b]

7. Well, I missed it. Pesky 16 hour shifts I work keep me from being all things to all people...

I still maintain it is unfair to assume so broadly that people DON'T care.

[sarisataka]

8. The plight of Sudan

And other genocides around the world have been posted on the DU many times. Invariably they sink like stones, and/or met with deflection.

You do bring up an interesting point. It is not widely reported by the MSM. Is it possible there is some bias that a conflict, which is estimated to have 400,000 civilian casualties and 11 million people displaced gets almost no attention?

[hlthe2b]

9. I refer to this most recent incident. Of course I am aware of the Sudanese Civil War (both of them)

and the long starvation which got some attention from PBS and others due to the intervention and attention brought by George Clooney. While I direct incredible ire at the loss of USAID and other NGO interventions--the former due to Musk/Trump's evil- but both due to the civil war.

I had not heard about this incident in Oct and early November, but I was doing ER shifts back to back to back. I can't speak for others. Had it been widely reported by MSM, though, I feel like it would have gotten through to me even so.

I have worked much of my life in the Middle East and other so-called third world settings. Sudan, like much of Africa has had little attention since Bob Geldorf/Baby Boomer crowd took notice in Live Aid. With the morally depraved in the WH, I'd guess it will be a long time before it does again--in the meantime civil war and abject cruelty will prevail against the innocents.

[underpants]

2. God what complete animals.

[blm]

3. Oh geez. Barbarians.

[ms liberty]

4. I'm so tired of evil people being evil.