At least 87 bodies of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) victims have been found in a mass grave in West Darfur, Sudan, according to the UN. The victims, including several women and seven children, were reportedly killed between June 13 and 21 in Darfur.
This Thursday, July 13 in Geneva, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for independent investigations into the case of RSF members’ bodies found in a mass grave in Sudan, according to the UN.
The victims, including several women and seven children, are mainly Masalit killed last month in Western Darfur by the rebels, according to credible indications relayed by the High Commission.
The locals were forced by the FSR to put the bodies themselves in the mass grave, at least two kilometers north of the police headquarters in El-Geneina.
According to reports, at least 37 bodies were buried on June 20. The rest were buried the next day.
Since the beginning of violence between the army and the RSF in mid-April in Sudan, the UN had regularly warned of significant ethnic violence in Darfur. And hundreds of thousands of people have fled to Chad.