Mashad Observatory strongly condemns the horrific crimes committed by the Rapid Support Forces against innocent civilians in the cities of Al-Fashir and Mellit, where they carried out cold-blooded mass executions resulting in the killing of more than 78 young men and elders after subjecting them to brutal torture and degrading treatment. Reliable testimonies confirm that hundreds of other civilians who attempted to escape the inferno in Al-Fashir have been captured and are currently subjected to severe violations amounting to crimes against humanity.
These systematic violations constitute a flagrant breach of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, falling under the definitions outlined in Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, thus qualifying as war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, necessitating urgent international accountability.
The impact of these crimes extends beyond killing and torture, causing worsening humanitarian disasters, including the displacement of thousands of civilians, the breakdown of families, and deprivation of communities from food security and healthcare, which foreshadows a broader humanitarian catastrophe unless immediate intervention occurs.
In light of these repeated atrocities, Mashad Observatory issues an urgent appeal to the United Nations, the Security Council, the International Criminal Court, and all human rights and humanitarian organizations to fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities and take immediate and effective actions, including launching an independent international investigation, imposing strict sanctions on the leaders of the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias, accelerating the classification of these forces as a terrorist organization threatening regional and international peace and security, in addition to urgently ensuring civilian protection and unhindered access to humanitarian aid.
The impunity of these perpetrators threatens international peace and security and undermines the entire international justice system, making it imperative for the international community not to limit itself to verbal condemnation, but to fully assume its duties to save the Sudanese people from a systematic inferno targeting their existence and dignity.
Mashad Observatory reiterates its call to the living human conscience everywhere to stand in solidarity with the victims in Sudan and uphold their legitimate rights. Halting these crimes and delivering justice to the victims is a humanitarian, legal, and ethical duty that cannot be postponed or compromised.
