Sudan’s envoy to the UN children’s agency, Unicef, Sheldon Yett, compared the situation in Sudan to the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s. “Many things that are happening in parts of Sudan right now remind me of that. (…) The pleasure of killing,” he told Mirror. “There have been targeted acts of violence against various ethnic groups.”
The survivors’ stories are heartbreaking, Yett said. “Murder, blackmail, rape. Some paid huge sums of money to escape.” All order had been completely destroyed, said Yett, who, according to his own statements, was responsible for the genocide. Rwanda witnessed in the 1990s. Sudan is a testing ground for modern warfare.
Two main ethnic groups live in Rwanda: Hutu and Tutsi. Before genocide In 1994, about 85 percent of the population was Hutu and about 15 percent was Tutsi. During the genocide, Hutu militia killed about three-quarters of the Tutsi population within 100 days.
“They eat grass and animal feed”
Because of that war Sudan partially cut off from the outside world. Yett said around 260,000 people were still trapped in Al-Fashir and unable to escape. “They ate grass and animal feed. Many died of hunger or because of lack of medicine.” Attempts to provide humanitarian aid in Al-Fashir often fail as drivers and trucks are shot at. Unicef is one of the few organizations currently trying to provide on-site assistance.
In Sudan, the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been fighting against the army-backed government since 2023. Tens of thousands of people have died in the fighting and around twelve million people have had to flee their home areas. According to estimates, the situation in the northeast African country is… UN the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The RSF was accused of carrying out mass executions, rape and other atrocities after they captured Al-Fashir in the Darfur region. The International Criminal Court in The Hague spoke about alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
