EU condemns escalation of violence in Darfur

GOOBJOOG NEWS | DARFUR: The European Union has condemned an escalation of violence in Darfur region in Western Sudan.

EU’s top diplomat Joseph Borrell while warning of the danger of a possible genocide in the region condemned atrocities against Darfur’s Masalit people and spoke of an “ethnic cleansing campaign.”

Borell warned that the atrocities are “seemingly a wider part of ethnic cleansing” conducted by the RSF with the aim to eradicate the non-Arab Masalit community from West Darfur, and comes on top of the first wave of large violence in June.

“The international community cannot turn a blind eye on what is happening in Darfur and allow another genocide to happen in this region,” he said.

The region has been destabilized since April due to a conflict between Sudan’s regular army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary.