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The UN Human Rights Office published a report on Thursday detailing their findings of atrocities committed during a three-day offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Sudan.
The UN deems this conduct to amount to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). This attack took place in April of this year. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said, “These horrific patterns of violations – committed with impunity – are consistent with what my Office has repeatedly documented.” The UN calls for an “impartial, thorough, and effective” investigation to hold those responsible for the atrocities accountable.
The report’s key findings include the killing of at least 1013 civilians, along with 66 incidents of conflict-related sexual violence. Further, surrounding this offensive, the UN documented widespread summary executions, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, abductions, and enforced disappearances. During the attacks, the RSF pillaged food and livestock, looted shops and homes, and burned down houses. This conduct has extensive humanitarian and legal implications, according to the report:
A woman who returned to the camp to search for her 15-year-old son, described the situation stating, “The camp was empty. I saw scattered dead bodies on the roads. Only chicken, donkeys and sheep were wandering around. The RSF was positioned in the main market.” Another survivor reported, “[RSF] fighters were just shouting and shooting anywhere, so that is how many people were killed.”
The Zamzam camp was created in 2004 to respond to all the displaced persons fleeing the war in Darfur. It is located south of El Fasher, the state capital. The camp has transformed over the years into an “urban-like setting” with many children who have never known life outside the camp. According to the UN, roughly 500,000 people lived at Zamzam as of April 2025.
Sudan has signed but not ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), but the ICC has jurisdiction over these crimes in Darfur because of Security Council Resolution 1593.
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The UN deems this conduct to amount to violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL). This attack took place in April of this year. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said, “These horrific patterns of violations – committed with impunity – are consistent with what my Office has repeatedly documented.” The UN calls for an “impartial, thorough, and effective” investigation to hold those responsible for the atrocities accountable.
The report’s key findings include the killing of at least 1013 civilians, along with 66 incidents of conflict-related sexual violence. Further, surrounding this offensive, the UN documented widespread summary executions, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, abductions, and enforced disappearances. During the attacks, the RSF pillaged food and livestock, looted shops and homes, and burned down houses. This conduct has extensive humanitarian and legal implications, according to the report:
The aspect of ethnic motivation ties into recent UN warnings over escalating ethnic violence, which must be prevented.
A woman who returned to the camp to search for her 15-year-old son, described the situation stating, “The camp was empty. I saw scattered dead bodies on the roads. Only chicken, donkeys and sheep were wandering around. The RSF was positioned in the main market.” Another survivor reported, “[RSF] fighters were just shouting and shooting anywhere, so that is how many people were killed.”
The Zamzam camp was created in 2004 to respond to all the displaced persons fleeing the war in Darfur. It is located south of El Fasher, the state capital. The camp has transformed over the years into an “urban-like setting” with many children who have never known life outside the camp. According to the UN, roughly 500,000 people lived at Zamzam as of April 2025.
Sudan has signed but not ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), but the ICC has jurisdiction over these crimes in Darfur because of Security Council Resolution 1593.
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