UN Reports 1,000+ Civilian Deaths in Sudan Camp Assault

The United Nations Human Rights Office reported Thursday that more than 1,000 civilians died during a three-day assault by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces on the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur last April, marking one of the deadliest episodes in the country's ongoing civil war.

The attack, which occurred from April 11 to 13, targeted Zamzam, Sudan's largest displacement camp and home to nearly 500,000 people uprooted by conflict. As part of the RSF's broader siege of El Fasher, the provincial capital to the north, fighters stormed the camp, conducting house-to-house raids and killing civilians in markets, schools, and health facilities. The UN report, based on interviews in July with 155 survivors and witnesses who fled to Chad, documented at least 319 summary executions, alongside widespread torture, abductions, and patterns of sexual violence including assaults, gang rapes, and sexual slavery. For months prior, the RSF had blocked food and essential supplies, exacerbating famine conditions in the camp.

"Such deliberate killing of civilians or persons hors de combat may constitute the war crime of murder," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a...