{"id":202916,"date":"2025-07-21T03:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-rights-chief-condemns-the-killing-of-scores-of-civilians-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T03:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:15:52","slug":"sudan-un-rights-chief-condemns-the-killing-of-scores-of-civilians-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-rights-chief-condemns-the-killing-of-scores-of-civilians-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN Rights Chief Condemns the Killing of Scores of Civilians in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk has deplored deadly attacks in Sudan&#8217;s Kordofan region this week, his office said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Since 10 July, the UN human rights office, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OHCHR<\/a>, has verified that the Rapid Support Forces<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">(RSF) have killed at least 60 civilians in North Kordofan&#8217;s Bara locality, while civil society groups have reported that up to 300 were killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) also hit two villages in West Kordofan from 10 to 14 July, killing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk has deplored deadly attacks in Sudan&#8217;s Kordofan region this week, his office said in a statement on Thursday. Since 10 July, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has verified that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed at least 60 civilians in North Kordofan&#8217;s Bara locality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00641104:cda3cb4e42a08d8c3d7d5d42b7437286:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6510,13304,7610,7805,257,5100,7597,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-202916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-civilians","tag-condemns","tag-killing","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-scores","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00641104:cda3cb4e42a08d8c3d7d5d42b7437286:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}