NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced reported attacks on civilians by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as the UN said it would push for a UNSC resolution on the more than 18-month long crisis, AFP reported.
The conflict erupted in mid-April 2023 from a power struggle between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Army ahead of a planned transition to civilian rule, as well as triggered the world’s largest displacement problem.
The current conflict has also produced waves of ethnically driven violence blamed mostly on the RSF, western media reported. The RSF has allegedly killed around 124 people in a village in El Gezira State last month, activists told AFP.
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The RSF has also accused the army of arming civilian people in Gezira. The RSF has earlier rejected harming civilian population in Sudan and attributed it to rogue actors.
The UN Chief was appalled by “reports of large numbers of civilian people being killed, arrested and displaced, acts of sexual violence against girls and women, the looting of homes as well as markets and the burning of farms,” said a United Nations spokesperson. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric stated that such acts may also constitute grave violations of global humanitarian law and human rights law. The spokesperson said that the perpetrators of such violations must be held answerable.
