The UN Human Rights Office also reported unbridled sexual violence in the region, even against children.
More than 480 civilians have been killed in attacks in the Darfur region of northern Sudan in two weeks of this month, with some ethnic motivated attacks, according to the United Nations.
The UN Human Rights Office said Friday that it had listed at least 481 civilians killed in northern Darfur since April 10 and that “the real number is probably much higher.”
He also reported that unbridled sexual violence in the region, even against young boys and girls, calling “horrible” assaults.
“The suffering of the Sudanese people is difficult to imagine, more difficult to understand and simply impossible to accept,” said UN Head of Rights, Volker Turk, in the statement.
North Darfur has become a key battle in the war that exploded on April 15, 2023, between the Sudan Army, led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the Paramilitary Fast Support forces (RSF), the former deputy of Mohamed Hamdan.
Tens of thousands have died in the war, which has been triggered what the UN describes how the world’s sausage crisis.
‘Generalized reports of sexual violence’
One of the last bloody assaults occurred in the Zamzam Displacement Camp between April 11 and 13. That attack killed at least 210 civilians, including nine medical professionals, according to the UN Rights Office. Turk described reports of “women, girls and boys who were raped or raped in groups there or while trying to escape.”
At least 129 more civilians were killed between Sunday and Thursday of this week at El-Fafasher City, the Um Kedada district and the Abu Shouk displacement camp, said the UN.
Some of the last attacks were “ethnically motivated”, with specific communities, he added.
“The growing number of civil casualties and broad reports of sexual violence are horrible,” Turk said.
In addition, the UN said that “it was reported that people’s dishes had the lack of food, water and medical care” in the detention centers administered by the RSF or “while walking for days in an attempt to flee violence.”
‘Terrible conditions’
The fighting in northern Darfur have displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians, many of whom had previously fled their homes during the conflict, according to the UN Rights Office.
The displaced “face terrible conditions amid continuous restrictions on access to humanitarian assistance that saves lives,” he said.
Despite the growing crisis, the UN World Food Program (WFP) before Friday warned that it could be forced to reduce its food support within the week due to the shortage of financing.
Rations in areas at risk of famine have been reduced to 70 percent of a standard PMA ration (equal to 2,100 kcal per day), the organization said.
The help response is also committed to continuous attacks aimed at humanitarian workers and medical staff, Turk said.
“The systems to help victims are in a hurry of collapse,” he said, “medical workers are under threat, and water sources have also deliberately attacked.”
The UN evaluation occurs a day after the United Kingdom Foreign Minister David Lammy warned the violence in Darfur Bears “the distinctive seals of ethnic cleaning and can be equivalent to crimes against humanity.”
Lammy asked the Sudan Army and the RSF to “descale with urgency” and said