SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP - Amnesty warns war crimes continuing in Sudan’s Darfur

11/6/19: AP – Amnesty warns war crimes continuing in Sudan’s Darfur, by Bassam Hatoum and Samy Magdy

AP reports that Sudanese security forces have continued to commit “war crimes and other serious human rights violations” in the Darfur region, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

 Amnesty said the abuses in Darfur at the hands of Sudanese paramilitary units, the Rapid Support Forces, include the destruction of entire villages, as well as “unlawful killings and sexual violence.”

 “In Darfur, as in Khartoum, we’ve witnessed the Rapid Support Forces’ despicable brutality against Sudanese civilians - the only difference being, in Darfur they have committed atrocities with impunity for years,” said Kumi Naidoo, secretary general of Amnesty International.

 He urged that the U.N. and the AU “not turn their backs on people in Darfur who rely on peacekeepers for protection.”