Sudan civil war: the terrifying escape from El Fasher

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  This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Monday the 1st of December these are our main stories.

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  Sudanese people who fled the besieged city of El Fasha give testimony on what they witnessed during one of the most brutal chapters of the Civil War.

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  The fall of El Fasha just over a month ago was one of the most horrific events in Sudan's civil war.

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  The city had been surrounded by the paramilitary rapid support forces for 18 months before they eventually broke through,

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  expelling the Sudanese army from its last stronghold in the western region of Darfur.

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  It was a huge victory for the RSF,

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  but widespread accounts of brutality, killing and rape have drawn international condemnation.

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  Our correspondent, Barbara Platt Usher,

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  has travelled to a camp in northern Sudan to hear first-hand the stories of those who escaped.

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