The UN human rights agency has documented 1,013 civilian deaths in connection with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the two warring parties in the civil war, attacking the Zamzam refugee camp in the Darfur region in the western part of the country over three days this spring.
Now the UN is demanding that an investigation into war crimes be opened.
The information comes as the war continues to rage in Sudan. As recently as Thursday morning, the capital Khartoum and the important port city of Port Sudan went dark after drones attacked power plants in the cities.
According to army sources, paramilitary forces have attacked a total of at least 35 locations in eastern Sudan.
The brutal civil war between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary RSF broke out in April 2023. The war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced 12 million people, leading the UN to classify the conflict as the world's worst humanitarian crisis at present.
