The United Nations is accusing a paramilitary group in Sudan of committing widespread atrocities

that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. In a report out today, the

U.N. found more than 6,000 people were killed in the first three days of the rapid support

forces offensive in El Fasher, which is in Sudan's northwestern

Darfur region. It's been nearly three years of relentless conflict in Sudan, and it has

triggered the world's largest humanitarian crisis. Amna Nawaz filed this report earlier.

This week, hundreds of shelters at a displacement camp in the North Darfur region of Sudan

were burned down, pushing an already traumatized people through more hardship.

What began as a power struggle between Sudan's military and the paramilitary rapid support forces

has now become one of the world's greatest humanitarian crises.

Nearly two-thirds of Sudan's population now need assistance, with hunger rising, health

systems shattered, and families fleeing across borders. Veteran journalists and humanitarian

Ann Curry has made her way to South Sudan, is at a camp for displaced people, and joins me from

there now. So, Anne, you're there on the border with Sudan and South Sudan. What more can you tell us

about the impact this war has had and the state of that war today? Well, as you well know,

NewsHour has been reporting, in fact, that this catastrophic war in Sudan has caused the

world's largest humanitarian crisis, and it has got unprecedented numbers of displacement,

recently rising to 13.6 million people, and many are fleeing to neighboring countries,

and about a million have arrived here in South Sudan since the war started about three years ago on them.

But so many people displaced, I'm sure the stories that you're hearing are just heartbreaking.

Can you tell us more about where exactly you are and what you're seeing there?

I'm on the border of Rink in South Sudan, is then the northern most part of South Sudan. And this is where

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