PROFILE – ‘Butcher of El-Fasher’ boasts about slaughtering over 2,000 civilians in Sudan’s Darfur Related news

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ISTANBUL A Sudanese paramilitary commander has callously executed more than 2,000 civilians in the western city of El-Fasher, becoming the face of the massacres being committed by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Darfur region. The RSF captured El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, last week, amid reports of massacres against civilians trapped in the city. The takeover was part of a deadly war between the rebel group, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) and the Sudanese