Over 1,000 Were Killed in Attack on Famine-Stricken Camp in Sudan, U.N. Says
Over 1,000 Were Killed in Attack on Famine-Stricken Camp in Sudan, U.N. Says
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Paramilitaries in Sudan killed over 1,000 people, one-third of them in summary executions, in an attack in April against a famine-stricken camp for displaced people, the United Nations human rights body said on Thursday.
The revised toll was over three times as great as earlier estimates from one of the most notorious episodes of Sudan’s atrocity-filled civil war.
The killings by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., which has been fighting Sudan’s military for nearly three years, “may constitute the war crime of murder,” Volker Türk, the head of the U.N. body, said in a statement.