Paris, 4 November 2025
HuSoMe denounces the atrocities committed in Darfur and calls on France and Europe to respond. Will Western countries once again, as in Syria, Gaza and Yemen, remain indifferent to the suffering of the population?
After eighteen months of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have taken control of the city of El Fasher, the last strategic stronghold outside their control in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Since its fall, testimonies and reports have multiplied of summary executions, rapes, looting, attacks on humanitarian workers and other acts of systematic violence targeting civilians.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), these atrocities are part of a cycle of violence that has ravaged the region since April 2023.
“Such acts, if proven, could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity,” said the Prosecutor, recalling the framework of the Rome Statute, the Court’s founding text.
The human toll is catastrophic: several thousand civilians are reported to have died in the capital of North Darfur State, now under the control of the militias led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti. The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that at least 460 people were killed in a maternity hospital, while the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reports “horrifying testimonies” describing massacres, rapes, abductions and forced displacement.
In the face of this dramatic situation, HuSoMe — an organisation committed to defending human rights — expresses its outrage and condemns these inhuman crimes in the strongest terms.
HuSoMe recalls that protecting civilians and prosecuting those responsible for war crimes are moral and legal obligations under international law. The organisation also calls for unhindered humanitarian access to the region and for an independent international investigation.
