In 2003, Darfur was ravaged by a conflict that the International Criminal Court has described as genocide and left hundreds of thousands dead. Twenty years later, scenes of similar violence are taking place in this region of western Sudan, a country at war since April 2023.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by dissident General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, known as “ Hemetti”, are facing the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), a regular army under the control of General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane. In just over a year, this conflict has caused several tens of thousands deadaccording to the UN.
Images obtained and authenticated by The World with the Lighthouse Reports collective, The Washington Post and Sky News, prove that summary executions are being carried out in one of the camps, Kassab, created for displaced people following the Darfur war in 2003.
According to several NGOsthe FSR, which benefits from the support of Arab tribes, among whom they raise militias to fight the regular army and its allies, targets civilians from non-Arab communities, notably the Masalit and the Zaghawa. Ethnic crimes that General Hemetti’s men deny. However, the verified videos and testimonies collected by The World deny it.