SEREMBAN: Malaysia has urged the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to open humanitarian corridors to allow aid and supplies to be delivered to the people of El Fasher and affected areas of the Darfur region in Sudan.
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan (pic) said Kuala Lumpur, together with the members of the international community, also demands an immediate ceasefire to stop the violence that has killed some 20,000 and displaced millions.
"Malaysia, along with the rest of the world, is watching in horror as the RSF continues to inflict a massacre and one of the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises in Sudan.
"The sheer scale of brutality on display is deplorable and, as shown by satellite images of blood covering the city of El Fasher, a literal bloodstain on all of humanity," he said in a statement on Monday (Nov 3).
Since April 2023, the Sudanese army and the RSF have been locked in a war that regional and international mediations have failed to end.
The conflict has killed 20,000 people and displaced more than 15 million as refugees and internally displaced persons, according to UN and local reports.
Mohamad said the world cannot allow the continued revival of the genocide of Darfur.
"We must not allow the darkest chapters of history to repeat," he added.
The UN human rights office said it has received horrendous accounts of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, attacks against humanitarian workers, looting, abductions and forced displacement since the RSF made a major incursion into the city last week.
Sudan, it said, has become the site of the world's largest humanitarian and displacement crisis on record, with about 14 million people displaced out of a population of 51 million. Famine is widespread, and outbreaks of cholera and other deadly diseases are increasing.
According to the International Organisation for Migration, tens of thousands have fled the area in recent days, mostly on foot, to Tawila, a town west of El Fasher that is already sheltering more than 652,000 displaced people.
