A fact-finding mission was commissioned on Friday by the Human Rights Council of the UN to identify all those responsible for the Alleged violations of international law in El Fasher, Sudanso that they are brought to justice.
After an extraordinary session of the main United Nations body in charge of human rights, urgently convened to examine “the human rights situation” in that city, it adopted a resolution ordering the independent mission to carry out the investigation.
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The mission was charged with recording violations of international law committed everywhere in El Fasherbut also “identify when possible”, the suspects of their authorship so that they “answer for their actions” before justice.
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At the beginning of the session requested by the United Kingdom with Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Norway, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights denounced the inaction of the international community and warned the perpetrators of abuses that they will be held accountable.
“Traces of blood on the ground in El Fasher They were photographed from space,” said Volker Türk.
“My teams collect evidence of violations that could be used in the framework of judicial proceedings… (and) the International Criminal Court indicated that it was monitoring the situation closely,” Türk added.
And he warned that “everyone involved in that conflict should know: we are watching them and justice will be done.”
Displaced Sudanese who fled El Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces walk in the Um Yanqur camp, located on the southwestern edge of Tawila. (AFP photo).
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After 18 months of siege, the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (FSR)at war against the regular army since April 2023, took control on October 26 of this city in Darfur, a region in western Sudan already affected by violence in the 2000s.
The text was adopted by consensus, although several countries, including Sudan, did not accept the paragraphs that expand the field of research.
The UN estimates that nearly 100,000 people fled the city in the last two weeks, with many taking refuge in Tawila, about 50 kilometers further west.
The fighting, which has been going on for two and a half years, caused thousands of deaths, forced the displacement of 12 million people and plunged the country into the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the UN.
