2024-01-21 March for Sudan
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London, UK. 21st January, 2024. Members of the Sudanese community and supporters march from the BBC to the UN Association of the United Kingdom office to highlight and to call for a stop to the escalating brutality and violence in Sudan. Protesters carried Sudanese flags, signs reading 'Free Sudan' and a banner alleging UAE funding of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The war in Sudan between Sudan's armed forces and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has led to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and both sides stand accused of having committed atrocities amounting to war crimes. Whilst UN reports suggest that more than 13,000 people have been killed, 7.6 million displaced and almost 25 million require humanitarian aid, the real number of deaths is expected to be significantly higher because most deaths remain unrecorded in Darfur where human rights groups have collected evidence of extrajudicial killings, rape and ethnically-motivated killings among the Masalit tribe by the RSF and other armed groups which may amount to crimes against humanity.
The war in Sudan between Sudan's armed forces and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has led to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and both sides stand accused of having committed atrocities amounting to war crimes. Whilst UN reports suggest that more than 13,000 people have been killed, 7.6 million displaced and almost 25 million require humanitarian aid, the real number of deaths is expected to be significantly higher because most deaths remain unrecorded in Darfur where human rights groups have collected evidence of extrajudicial killings, rape and ethnically-motivated killings among the Masalit tribe by the RSF and other armed groups which may amount to crimes against humanity.
