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GENEVA, July 13 (Reuters) – At least 87 people, including Masalits, have been buried in a mass grave in West Darfur, Sudan, the UN human rights office said on Thursday, saying that he had credible information that the Rapid Support Forces were responsible.
Local people were forced to dispose of bodies, including those of women and children, in an open area near the western town of El-Geneina between June 20 and 21, the statement said. the UN.
Some of the people had died from untreated wounds in a wave of violence by the RSF and allied militias in the days after the killing of the local governor
Khamis Abbakar, he said.
“I condemn in the strongest terms the killing of civilians and persons hors de combat, and am even more appalled at the callous and disrespectful manner in which the dead, as well as their families and communities, have been treated,” he said. said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk in the same statement.
He called for a prompt and thorough investigation.
It was not immediately clear which part of the dead were Masalits. The ethnically motivated bloodshed has intensified in recent weeks, alongside the war between rival military factions that erupted in April.
(Reporting by Emma Farge, editing by Rachel More)