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The videos are hard to watch.

I'm talking about the documentation circling online of attacks on civilians in the city of El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region. People begging for their lives,

young men lined up in the dirt and shot. The atrocities are happening in broad daylight

as Sudan's national military retreats from El Fasher. The city has been under siege for more than 500

days. Now the militia known as the rapid support forces or RSF is in control.

And aid groups are reporting that revenge killings have begun. Those lucky enough to escape are

fleeing on foot or piling into trailer trucks. Nathaniel Raymond is the director of the

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