Sudan's Ethnic Purge: A Cycle of Violence and Genocide

Arab forces, led by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have launched a second wave of attacks targeting the ethnic-African Masalit tribe in the Sudanese city of El Geneina. Survivors report that the RSF overpowered a Sudanese army base in the district of Ardamata, using drones to attack soldiers. The RSF and allied Arab militias then intensified their attacks on civilians in a camp for internally displaced people and surrounding neighborhoods, with reports of mass killings, rape, looting, and burning of homes. The European Union estimates that over 1,000 Masalit people were killed in Ardamata, part of a wider ethnic cleansing campaign by the RSF to eradicate the non-Arab Masalit community from West Darfur.