Sudan: Stronger Int’l Pressure Needed to Prevent Atrocities in Sudan – No Impunity for Defecting Militia Commanders – HRW

Amsterdam — International advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged stronger international action to prevent further atrocities in Sudan, warning that civilians in El Obeid face an imminent risk of mass violence as fighting intensifies between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). HRW has also called on the SAF to ensure that former RSF commanders who defect to the SAF are held accountable for alleged war crimes and serious human rights abuses.

The call, in…