The Sudanese Australian Advocacy Network (SAAN) is receiving multiple alarming reports from the ground in Sudan, alongside credible information from international non-governmental organisations (including Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) and media outlets, indicating that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are committing widespread atrocities—such as summary executions and targeted attacks against civilians—after seizing control of most of the city of El Fasher in North Darfur.
These reports confirm a pattern of ethnically motivated violence and deliberate targeting of civilian populations. The situation in El Fasher is rapidly deteriorating, and the risk of large-scale atrocities is escalating by the day.
SAAN echoes the urgent warning of Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, that “the risk of further large-scale, ethnically motivated violations and atrocities in El Fasher is mounting by the day.”
SAAN therefore calls for immediate Australian Government action to:
- Support urgent humanitarian access to El Fasher and surrounding areas,
- Condemn the RSF’s atrocities in the strongest possible terms,
- Ensure accountability for all war-crimes and crimes-against-humanity committed in Sudan.
Additionally, SAAN reiterates its firm call for an immediate cessation of active hostilities and for all parties to commit to a durable peace process. The people of Sudan must not be left to bear the consequences of unchecked violence. The world must act now—silence and inaction will only embolden those committing atrocities.