News Center - Amid ongoing attacks on civilians in El-Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan’s Minister of State for Social Welfare, Salima Ishaq, stated that the Rapid Support Forces had carried out a massacre claiming the lives of 300 women within the first two days of entering the city.

Minister Ishaq described the events in El-Fasher as “a systematic ethnic cleansing and a major crime,” providing information on human rights violations in the area, saying:

“The Rapid Support Forces killed 300 women during the first two days of their entry into the city.”

She added: “Women in El-Fasher are subjected to sexual assault, violence, and torture. The city’s residents continue to face torture, abuse, violence, humiliation, and degradation. What is happening here is a systematic ethnic cleansing and a major crime that the world chooses to ignore in silence.”

Salima Ishaq also pointed out that those who fled from El-Fasher to Tawila because of the attacks are also at risk, saying: “The roads between these areas have turned into roads of death.”

Sudan has been witnessing fierce fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which are supported by foreign parties, since mid-April 2023. The RSF, which took control of most of El-Fasher, the largest city in the Darfur region in western Sudan, did so after intense fighting.

The RSF has published videos showing the forced displacement of civilians, as well as massacres and torture committed against dozens of unarmed civilians in the city, where tens of thousands have fled from the ongoing conflict