THREE senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are accused in a new Amnesty International report of overseeing war crimes during the siege and capture of el-Fasher last October.

Speaking at the launch of the report in the Kenyan capital Nairobi today, Amnesty International secretary-general Agnes Callamard said the RSF had committed crimes against humanity and acts of ethnic cleansing during the assault on the North Darfur city. She called for an immediate ceasefire and the deployment of a United Nations protection force to safeguard civilians.

More than 6,000 people were killed over three days in October 2025 when the paramilitaries seized el-Fasher in an attack that US experts said bore the “hallmarks of genocide.”

Amnesty International analysed nine videos that showed one RSF commander executing civilians, another torturing detainees and a third ordering the torture of prisoners.

Ms Callamard said the RSF had committed murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution. She urged the international community to intervene and stop the attacks on civilians, saying that they continue “unhindered.”

An adequate response to the crimes “also requires strengthening accountability by ensuring sufficient support for all existing accountability mechanisms for Sudan, including the International Criminal Court, and UN and African Union-backed fact-finding missions. Commanders identified in this report should be investigated and, where there is sufficient admissible evidence, prosecuted,” she added.

Amnesty International said it had shared the report with RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo last month but had not received a response.

The war in Sudan broke out in April 2023, after a long period of tensions between the army and the RSF. The conflict has killed at least 59,000 people, displaced some 13 million and pushed much of the country into famine.