''' MASS ATROCITIES MAKE ''' : SUDAN STUDENTS PRECIS

'' IN SUDAN - a preventable mass atrocity. '' The situation is growing terribly ominous and is turning into a dire problem suffering from a languishing indifference.

THE BACKDROP : SUDAN IS PROBABLY the world's worst humanitarian crisis right now. The country is caught in a  civil war between the army and a largely Arab militia - the Rapid Support Forces or R.S.F.

While both sides have behaved viciously, the R.S.F. is particularly notorious for savagery including for killing and raping members of several Black African ethnic groups.

While reporting on the Chad-Sudan border in 2024, I interviewed survivors who described the R.S.F's  systematically killing men and boys over the age of 10 and gang-raping many women and girls.

'' We don't want to see any Black people,'' one woman quoted an R.S.F. leader telling villagers before the militia slaughtered the men and boys, among them her five brothers.

The R.S.F is now massing forces around EL Obeid and attacking it with drones. Food is scarce and people are weakening.

The region is suffering an outbreak of cholera, which if it spreads, could increase suffering.

'' Another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan, '' Volker Turk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, warned a few days ago.

He added that people in the region are being subjected to summary execution and sexual violence.

!WOW! thanks Nicholas Kristof.