{"id":31772,"date":"2024-06-19T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/here-is-why-many-fear-more-bloodshed-in-darfur\/19\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:59:47","slug":"here-is-why-many-fear-more-bloodshed-in-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/here-is-why-many-fear-more-bloodshed-in-darfur\/19\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Is Why Many Fear More Bloodshed in Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Overshadowed by the fighting in Ukraine and Gaza, Sudan\u2019s brutal civil war has been spreading for months across the western Darfur region, where atrocities were seared into international consciousness 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now global attention is starting to focus on the siege of a city in Darfur, where chaotic violence has stoked fears of another ethnic slaughter, and even genocide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here is what we know.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-2be7e322\"><span>A Risk of Ethnic Slaughter<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The battle for the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, may have made the war too big to ignore. The U.N. Security Council, in a near-unanimous vote, has demanded an end to the siege there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As hostile forces close in on the city, one of the biggest in Darfur, an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/06\/19\/world\/africa\/sudan-darfur-siege.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">analysis of satellite and video imagery<\/a> by The New York Times has found that thousands of homes have been razed and tens of thousands of people forced to flee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fighters are part of a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. Given their history \u2014 they are successors to the janjaweed militias that once brutalized civilians \u2014 and accounts of a massacre in another city last fall, many fear the worst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If the city falls, what had largely been a military clash could descend into ethnic slaughter like the violence Darfur endured in the early 2000s, when the janjaweed, who are Arab, set upon ethnic Africans. The United Nations estimated that 300,000 people were killed in the genocide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe situation today bears all the marks of risk of genocide,\u201d said Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the top United Nations official on genocide prevention.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-41d589a3\"><span>Food Is Running Out<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fighters, waging a pitched civil war with Sudanese government soldiers, have seized control of the main highway. That has largely cut off food \u2014 and not just to El Fasher, a supply hub for a region already grappling with famine. At one displacement camp recently, a child died of malnutrition every two hours, doctors said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Medical care, too, is in short supply, with hospitals forced to close in the face of marauding fighters.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-5eaee502\"><span>Havens Are Scarce<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Fearing the violence, many residents have walked up to 180 miles in search of safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the road is filled with danger. The temperatures reach more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit, or 49 Celsius. Many women report having been sexually assaulted en route. And even when people make it to their destinations, they often find that food and medicine are in short supply there, too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Watching the arrivals is \u201ctruly heart-wrenching,\u201d said one doctor in East Darfur.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-131edab7\"><span>The I.C.C. Is Watching<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The International Criminal Court, which brought charges against Sudanese officials after the genocide two decades ago, says it is looking closely to determine what is happening now. The Hague-based court has issued an appeal for evidence of atrocities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the fighters of the Rapid Support Forces are making that job easier. Instead of trying to conceal the razing of homes and mistreatment of civilians, they record it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then they post the videos on social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/19\/world\/africa\/sudan-darfur-takeaways.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overshadowed by the fighting in Ukraine and Gaza, Sudan&rsquo;s brutal civil war has been spreading for months across the western Darfur region,<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/here-is-why-many-fear-more-bloodshed-in-darfur\/19\/06\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}