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Residents of the Darfur region in Sudan are subjected to human rights violations that “border on the ultimate evil” according to the UN representative in the country affected by civil war.
After seven months of fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary group RSF, fighting is still escalating.
But the civilian victims, mainly in the capital Khartoum and in the already torn Darfur province, are hit hard by the war, according to UN representative Clementine Nkweta-Salami, tasked with coordinating humanitarian aid efforts.
– We constantly say that the situation is terrible, that it is cruel. But frankly, we are beginning to lack words to describe the horrors that are happening in Sudan, she told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday.
She referred to reports of sexual violence, kidnappings, disappearances, arbitrary detentions, brutal rapes and violence against children. Nkweta-Salami warned that developments are approaching a repeat of the genocide that took place in the Darfur province of western Sudan in the early 2000s.