Brussels 30.10.2025 The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has announced an investigation into what he called “violations” committed by his soldiers during the occupation of el-Fasher.
The declaration by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, came after reports of civilian killings following the RSF capture of the city in the Darfur region.
Hemeti took floor after international outrage of mass killings in el-Fasher, apparently documented by his paramilitary themselves in social media videos, and further used for reports.
BREAKING: More than 400 people have been killed at a hospital in Darfur city, Sudan, the World Health Organization reports.
The hospital was taken by paramilitary forces, which have been fighting the army since 2023.https://t.co/CMQZNLiRzY
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However the UN’s top humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, said the RSF’s assurance that it will protect civilians is at odds with the “appalling news” from Darfur.
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“There must be accountability for those carrying out the killing and the sexual violence. For those giving the orders. And those providing the weapons should consider their responsibility,” Mr Fletcher said in an address to the UN Security Council during an emergency session on Sudan.
#Sudan: #ElFasher has “descended into an even darker hell,” @UNOCHA and @UNDPPA warn, as the North #Darfur capital falls to RSF after a 500-day siege, forcing tens of thousands to flee amid reported executions, sexual violence and starvation.https://t.co/eBZOxCOiHP pic.twitter.com/reSOynOksJ
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The crisis caused by the war between the army and RSF, which is in its third year, was also a “crisis of apathy”, he underlined.
Earlier British Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said the UK had called the meeting as the “scale of suffering is unconscionable, often based on ethnicity, women and girls facing sexual and gender-based violence, and there is evidence mounting of defenceless civilians being executed and tortured”.
"They appear to be…engaging in a campaign that looks like ethnic cleansing."
Viral videos from El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur show the Rapid Support Forces committing atrocities, which match witness accounts. The paramilitary group has seized the city from the Sudanese army. pic.twitter.com/oCd15sIYMo
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The Security Council has now issued a statement condemning the assault on el-Fasher, demanding safe passage for those trying escape from the city and reiterating that it will not recognise the RSF’s parallel government.
The footage filmed in el-Fasher confirming that they show the RSF soldiers executing a number of unarmed people.
A spokesman for the paramilitary group has since denied further accusations that the RSF had killed more 400 people at a hospital in the city.
The leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemeti), expressed “regret” over the recent violence in El-Fasher, saying that the fighting had been “imposed upon” his forces.
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The group has also denied widespread allegations that the killings in el-Fasher are ethnically based and follow a pattern of the Arab paramilitaries targeting non-Arab populations.
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