Overview
- Investigators documented more than 6,000 deaths during the opening three days of the October 2025 offensive, drawing on over 140 interviews corroborated by satellite imagery and video.
- The report details mass killings, summary executions, sexual violence, abductions for ransom, torture, pillage, enforced disappearances, and the use of children in hostilities.
- Survivor accounts describe roughly 500 people killed at El Fasher University’s Al‑Rashid dormitory under heavy weapons fire, executions of detained young men, and targeting of non‑Arab communities such as the Zaghawa.
- The city fell after an 18‑month siege that cut off food and medicine, with at least 10 RSF-run detention sites identified in El-Fasher, including the Children’s Hospital, and thousands still missing.
- The UN highlights possible crimes against humanity, signals potential routes to accountability including the ICC, and notes rising external pressure such as calls to curb arms flows linked to the RSF.