{"id":223811,"date":"2026-02-15T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-like-a-scene-out-of-a-horror-movie-un-report-warns-of-war-crimes-in-sudans-el-fasher\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:45:16","slug":"sudan-like-a-scene-out-of-a-horror-movie-un-report-warns-of-war-crimes-in-sudans-el-fasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-like-a-scene-out-of-a-horror-movie-un-report-warns-of-war-crimes-in-sudans-el-fasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Like a Scene Out of a Horror Movie&#8217; &#8211; UN Report Warns of War Crimes in Sudan&#8217;s El Fasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Paramilitary forces in Sudan unleashed &#8220;a wave of intense violence&#8230;shocking in its scale and brutality&#8221; during their final offensive to capture the besieged city of El Fasher last October, committing atrocities that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, according to a report released on Friday by the UN human rights office, OHCHR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;<strong>Persistent impunity fuels continued cycles of violence<\/strong>,&#8221; said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk, calling for credible&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602140225.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>Paramilitary forces in Sudan unleashed &#8220;a wave of intense violence&#8230;shocking in its scale and brutality&#8221; during their final offensive to capture the besieged city of El Fasher last October, committing atrocities that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, according to a report released on Friday by the UN human rights office, OHCHR. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":223812,"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\/00680768:5127f814a12944a9b01667e09af2df16:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,1922,43880,10506,12832,257,5144,13190,254,4708,1613,8105,6618,6853],"class_list":["post-223811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crimes","tag-fasher","tag-horror","tag-movie","tag-news","tag-report","tag-scene","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-war","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680768:5127f814a12944a9b01667e09af2df16:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223811","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=223811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}