The United Nations has expressed outrage over credible reports of Sudanese civilians being executed by armed men, amid the ongoing civil war between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). While the BBC has been unable to independently verify the videos, the UN Human Rights Office confirmed it has reviewed multiple disturbing clips showing cold-blooded executions of civilians, many in public spaces.
UN official Volker Turk stated that the footage showed perpetrators claiming to punish supporters of the RSF. The army and RSF have been engaged in a brutal conflict for over two years, resulting in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Turk has called for immediate action by Sudanese military leaders to end such extrajudicial killings, emphasizing that these violations of international human rights laws must be addressed.
Sudanese military forces and their allied militias have faced repeated allegations of human rights abuses in recaptured territories, including the states of Sennar, Gezira, and North Kordofan. Although an investigation was initiated by Sudan’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in January, the findings remain undisclosed.
The US has imposed sanctions on General Burhan and RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo for alleged war crimes, with reports of torture, executions, and ethnic killings linked to the RSF, particularly in Darfur. While the army has condemned individual violations, the scale of destruction in Khartoum, which was recently recaptured after being held by the RSF for nearly two years, highlights the continued brutality of the conflict. The RSF has vowed to keep fighting, with threats of opening new fronts in northern Sudan.
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