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Security Council hears fact-finding report alleging mass killings and systematic sexual violence in Sudan
Summary
A United Nations fact-finding report presented in a Security Council briefing alleges starvation, mass killings and widespread gender-based violence in Sudan; civil-society briefers called for a protection mission, expanded arms embargo and accountability measures.
An unidentified representative opened a United Nations Security Council session on Sudan, calling the country's humanitarian emergency intolerable and saying the international community must not look away. The representative introduced a new United Nations fact-finding report into the RSF siege and capture of El Fasha and said its findings would be presented to the Council.
The opening speaker summarized the report's findings as "chilling," saying they include starvation used as a weapon, mass killings, ambushes of civilians fleeing, and what the report describes as "hallmarks of…
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