New Massacre… RSF Shelling in Al-Fashir Kills and Injures 118 Civilians

The Sudanese Doctors’ Network reported that 18 civilians were killed and more than 100 others wounded in deliberate artillery shelling by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on residential neighborhoods in Al-Fashir, North Darfur.

In a statement issued Tuesday, the network said: “In yet another RSF massacre against civilians in Al-Fashir, 18 people were killed and more than 100 others—including women and children—were injured in targeted artillery attacks on Monday.”

The statement condemned what it described as a “heinous criminal act” that reflects the RSF’s terrorist nature, making the killing of innocents and the terrorizing of civilians a systematic policy in blatant violation of international and humanitarian law prohibiting the targeting of civilians.

The network stressed that the atrocities in Al-Fashir are part of a broader pattern of RSF brutality that amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, ongoing in Darfur for over a year.

It also held the international community, the United Nations, and the African Union fully responsible for their “disgraceful silence” and failure to protect more than half a million civilians trapped in Al-Fashir under daily shelling, starvation, and slow death.