6,000 Killed in Sudan, According to the UN

By Drew Covington

Over 6,000 were killed in three days by a Sudanese paramilitary group in late October, according to the United Nations.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reportedly committed widespread atrocities across Sudan’s Darfur region in an effort to capture the city of el-Fashur. The U.N. Human Rights Office reported this last Friday. In the report, the actions committed by the RSF are described as war crimes. The group was described as unleashing “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality."

"The wanton violations that were perpetrated by the RSF and allied Arab militia in the final offensive on el-Fasher underscore that persistent impunity fuels continued cycles of violence," said Volker Turk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Turk has been serving in this position since October 2022.

The RSF overran el-Fasher with Arab militants throughout the massacre. The 29-page U.N. report detailed multiple atrocities such as mass murder, sexual violence, abductions, and torture. The report claims that the attacks were ethnically-motivated. The RSF’s General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo disputes the scale of atrocities being committed. 

“The unprecedented scale and brutality of the violence meted out during the offensive deeply compounded the horrific violations the residents of El Fasher had already been subjected to during the long months of siege, constant hostilities and bombardment,” said Turk.

The RSF has demonstrated a pattern of violence within the past years, including Zamzam in April of 2025 and in El Geneina and Ardamata in 2023. The U.N. Human Rights Chief called on parties to take effective steps to put an end to this extreme violence.

“In a protection crisis of this scale, human rights must remain central to efforts to achieve a durable resolution of the conflict,” said Türk.

Courtesy of NPR