The report – which drew upon interviews with 181 Sudanese refugees, mostly in Chad – concentrates mainly on the capital Khartoum and the West Darfur region, where death and destruction have raised the “spectre of the scorched earth campaign of previous decades”, Callamard said. The report, titled ‘Death Came To Our Home’: War Crimes and Civilian Suffering In Sudan, also details sexual violence against women and girls, deliberate attacks on civilian installations such as hospitals and churches, and widespread looting. Urgent steps must be taken to ensure justice and reparations for victims and survivors.” “The RSF and SAF, as well as their affiliated armed groups, must end their targeting of civilians, and guarantee safe passage for those seeking safety. “Civilians throughout Sudan are suffering unimaginable horror every single day as the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces recklessly vie for control of territory,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary-general. The four-month conflict has also displaced at least 3.3 million others from their homes. The attacks, both intentional and indiscriminate in kind, have killed thousands of people since the civil war broke out in April. In a new report published on Thursday, Amnesty International documented attacks by both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), headed by rivals General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo respectively, which resulted in heavy civilian casualties. As fighting rages on in Sudan, a leading human rights organisation has documented what it says are extensive war crimes being carried out by the two parties in the conflict.
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