Amnesty International said that atrocities committed by a Sudanese paramilitary group in a Darfur town constituted war crimes, the latest accusation in the devastating war ravaging the country.
In a report, the international human rights organization indicated that it had collected testimonies describing the barbarities perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces , or RSF, when their fighters took control of el-Fasher , the capital of North Darfur State , from the army at the end of last month.
The organization stated that the atrocities included the execution of dozens of unarmed men and the rape of women and girls. Amnesty added that others had been taken hostage by RSF fighters for ransom, and that witnesses reported seeing “hundreds of abandoned corpses” in the city streets and on the main roads leading out of el-Fasher.