Muslim Militia Massacres Hundreds At Hospital In Sudan
The United Nations has dubbed the conflict the world's 'most devastating' humanitarian crisis.
Graphic evidence emerged Friday of large-scale massacres of civilians in Sudan, including satellite imagery of bodies and bloodstained ground taken outside a hospital in Darfur.
More than 460 patients and their family members were reported shot and killed in the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher on Tuesday after the Sudanese army surrendered the city to paramilitary fighters on Sunday following an 18-month siege.
The government’s forces remain in control of the capital city of Khartoum, according to news reports.
The massacre is the latest tragedy in the conflict that has consumed the western Darfur region since full-scale civil war broke out in 2023.
The war between rival military factions, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has claimed the lives of an estimated 150,000 people and displaced as many as 14 million, according to the Council on Foreign Relation’s Global Conflict Tracker.
UN: It’s the world’s ‘most devastating’ humanitarian crisis
In January, the U.S. State Department declared that the RSF had committed genocide against non-Arab ethic groups in Sudan. The United Nations has described the situation in Sudan as “most devastating humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world.”