GENEVA — The United Nations Human Rights Council voted Monday to formally condemn rising violence carried out by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the city of al-Obeid, while also launching an emergency investigation into human rights abuses in the area.
Britain, which chaired the special session, had already sounded the alarm over what it described as the potential for mass atrocities, warning that the RSF’s buildup of forces around one of Sudan’s largest cities echoed the violence that devastated al-Fashir in North Darfur the previous year.
Britain’s Human Rights Ambassador Eleanor Sanders addressed the council directly, stating: “These horrors must not be repeated.”
