{"id":20128984,"date":"2026-02-26T17:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20128984"},"modified":"2026-02-26T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:52:28","slug":"collective-outrage-at-el-fasher-report-sudan-core-group-to-establish-coalition-of-likeminded-states-to-prevent-further-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/collective-outrage-at-el-fasher-report-sudan-core-group-to-establish-coalition-of-likeminded-states-to-prevent-further-atrocities","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Collective outrage\u2019 at El Fasher report: Sudan Core Group to establish \u2018coalition of likeminded states\u2019 to prevent further atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sudan Core Group at the UN Human Rights\u2019 Council, comprising Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, today announced its intention \u201cto establish a coalition of likeminded states and regional institutions committed to working together to prevent further atrocities in Sudan and support the Sudanese people to lay the foundations for eventual justice\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a joint statement, the Foreign Ministers of the Sudan Core Group at the Human Rights\u2019 Council \u2013 Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway<\/a>, and the United Kingdom<\/a> \u2013 express \u201ccollective outrage and profound sorrow at the findings of the Fact-Finding Mission<\/a> (FFM) report on El Fasher<\/a>\u201d, which was presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As previously reported by Radio Dabanga, the mission says that the Darfur atrocities bear the hallmarks of genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fur children with their families from El Fasher (Photo: RD)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In today\u2019s statement, Sudan Core Group highlights that the Mission\u2019s report \u201cspeaks of the heinous acts committed by the RSF during their 18-month siege of El Fasher with food and humanitarian supply routes systematically obstructed and markets attacked. It describes attacks on medical facilities and critical infrastructure, and the trapping of civilians to prevent escape. The conditions became so challenging, starving inhabitants resorted to eating livestock feed to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Group further underlines how \u201cthe report details the final offensive on El Fasher, describing how the RSF executed civilians throughout the city and turned El Fasher University and the El-Saudi Hospital into mass killing sites. Witnesses describe being told \u201cwe will exterminate you\u201d, and of pregnant women being shot in their bellies. Civilians were massacred as they tried to escape the city. It provides shocking testimony of women and girls who suffered horrific sexual and gender-based violence, including gang rape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe report sets out horrendous violence which was aimed primarily at the Fur and Zaghawa communities, as part of what the FFM assessed to be the deliberate attempt to bring about the \u201cphysical destruction\u201d of these communities, \u201cin whole or in part\u201d. The FFM concludes that RSF led violence in El Fasher constitutes War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, and bears \u201cthe hallmarks of genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The result of RSF artillery shelling of the Saudi Hospital in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur (File photo: Sudan Govt)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThe International Criminal Court and the High Commissioner for Human Rights have also communicated that their initial assessments indicate that crimes against humanity and war crimes were committed in El Fasher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report concludes that in the absence of effective prevention and accountability, \u201cthe risk of further genocidal violence remains acute\u201d. We, the international community, must redouble our efforts to prevent a repeat of the atrocities committed in El Fasher, and the Sudan Core Group calls on the parties to the conflict to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law. We implore all states to consider closely the important recommendations the report lays out: Civilians must be protected; the UN arms embargo must be expanded and enforced; and restrictions of humanitarian access and accountability mechanisms must end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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A child who fled with his family from El Fasher to Tawila shows signs of beatings and injuries (Photo: ICRC)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In its statement, the Sudan Core Group \u201ccommends the FFM for it\u2019s vital work in exposing the horrors that took place in El Fasher, and beyond. The scale and depravity of the horrors described should shock the conscience of us all,\u201d and expresses its \u201cdeep and enduring solidarity for the victims of atrocities in Sudan\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group calls on the warring parties to \u201curgently agree an immediate and sustainable ceasefire, allow unfettered humanitarian access, cease from violating International Humanitarian Law and ensure the protection of civilians,\u201d and \u201cto provide full access for further international justice mechanisms, to affected areas and populations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, the group underlines that \u201cthis report is a call to action. In response \u2013 the Sudan Core Group announces its intention to establish a coalition of likeminded states and regional institutions committed to working together to prevent further atrocities in Sudan and support the Sudanese people to lay the foundations for eventual justice. They have waited long enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland (File photo: UN)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>