Paramilitaries accused of covering up killings in Sudan

苏丹武装组织涉嫌掩盖谋杀案

Newshour

2025-12-17

38 分钟
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Researchers from Yale University say there's evidence that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been trying to cover up mass killings in the Sudanese city of El Fasher by burning and burying bodies. We hear from one of the researchers who analysed satellite images of the area. Also in the programme: the gunmen who carried out the deadly Bondi Beach attack in Australia spent most of last month in the Philippines; and why next year King's College, Cambridge, will have a new choir - of girls. (Photo: Handout photograph of a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur. Credit: MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via Reuters/File Photo)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

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  • We begin this hour in El Fasha, a city in western Sudan besieged for more than 18 months,

  • which finally fell in October when the Sudanese armed forces withdrew.

  • What followed after the rival rapid support forces the RSF took control is contested.

  • The testimony of those who escaped described systematic massacre of the previously besieged civilians.

  • The RSF says it's investigating,

  • but some cooperation of violence exists already in videos posted on social media,

  • in some cases by those boasting of and showing the atrocities they committed.

  • Today, after weeks of detailed observation,

  • the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health in the United States has published what it concludes is evidence likely to show that tens of thousands of people were killed and their bodies disposed of by burning and in mass graves.