{"id":130534,"date":"2026-02-10T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sudan-un-rights-chief-says-worse-is-to-come-without-international-action\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:03:00","slug":"sudan-un-rights-chief-says-worse-is-to-come-without-international-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/sudan-un-rights-chief-says-worse-is-to-come-without-international-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN rights chief says worse is to come without international action"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the brutal Sudan war shows no signs of ending, UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk on Monday called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop more mass killings and other flagrant war crimes against civilians.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe can only expect worse to come\u201d unless action is taken to halt the bloodshed, T\u00fcrk told Member States at the Human Rights Council\u00a0in Geneva, as he reiterated his call for the extension of an arms embargo from Darfur to include all of Sudan.<\/p>\n

Rival militaries from the national army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have been battling for control of the country for nearly three years.<\/p>\n

Something must be done to address the \u201ccontinuous inflow of weapons\u201d, the High Commissioner for Human Rights insisted, after recounting testimonies of survivors of atrocity crimes in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who overran the city last October.<\/p>\n

Mass killings<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cIn one horrific example, people who fled to separate locations, thousands of kilometres apart, gave consistent accounts of the mass killing of hundreds of people sheltering at El Fasher University,\u201d he said, describing convincing testimony that some victims were targeted based on their non-Arab ethnicity in particular, members of the Zaghawa ethnic group.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurvivors also spoke of seeing piles of dead bodies along roads leading away from El Fasher, in an apocalyptic scene that one person likened to the Day of Judgment,\u201d the High Commissioner continued, his comments echoing the\u00a0International Criminal Court\u2019s (ICC) conclusion last month that war crimes and crimes against humanity had taken place in El-Fasher, linked to the RSF\u2019s siege.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur own findings are fully consistent\u201d with that ICC assessment, T\u00fcrk told the Human Rights Council, at a meeting held specifically on the Sudan emergency.<\/p>\n

Dire warnings<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Previously, the UN rights chief noted that his office has warned about previous atrocity crimes such as the RSF offensive to capture Zamzam camp for displaced people in April 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cResponsibility for these atrocity crimes lies squarely with the RSF and their allies and supporters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The war in Sudan erupted in April 2023, after a power-sharing agreement broke down in the resource-rich central African nation between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF.<\/p>\n

The resulting humanitarian emergency has affected more than 30 million people in Sudan; many have faced repeated displacement and others have been impacted by famine and systematic sexual violence, including gang rape.<\/p>\n

As the fighting continues away from the Darfurs in the west to the central Kordofans regions, observers fear that further grave abuses are bound to happen, including by \u201cadvanced drone weaponry systems used by both sides\u201d, T\u00fcrk warned.<\/p>\n

Deadly drone war<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u201cIn the last two weeks, the SAF and allied Joint Forces broke the sieges on Kadugli and Dilling,\u201d the High Commissioner said. \u201cBut drone strikes by both sides continue, resulting in dozens of civilian deaths and injuries.<\/p>\n

Civilians are at risk of summary executions, sexual violence, arbitrary detention, and family separation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mediation measures<\/h4>\n

In a bid to prevent further bloodshed, the High Commissioner announced a series of measures \u201cto support mediation efforts\u201d and de-escalate violence.<\/p>\n

These include commitments not to target civilians or residential areas with explosive weapons, to enable the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid, to end arbitrary detention and cease attacks on civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI witnessed the damage done by RSF attacks on Merowe dam and hydroelectric power station, which once supplied 70 per cent of Sudan\u2019s electricity. Repeated drone strikes have disrupted power and water supplies to huge numbers of people, with a serious impact on healthcare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As the brutal Sudan war shows no signs of ending, UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk on Monday called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop more mass killings and other flagrant war crimes against civilians. \u201cWe can only expect worse to come\u201d unless action is taken to halt the bloodshed, T\u00fcrk told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}