Sudan’s brutal civil war escalates as paramilitary forces go on killing rampage
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sudan's civil war has entered a new horrific phase. |
| 0:04.0 | The paramilitary rapid support forces have gone on a killing rampage |
| 0:09.0 | after taking over the key city of El Fasher in western Darfur |
| 0:13.0 | after over a year and a half of siege. |
| 0:16.0 | Hundreds of thousands have fled to neighboring Tuila, escaping famine and mass executions. |
| 0:21.6 | Nick Schifrin has this report, but a warning, images and accounts in this story are disturbing. |
| 0:27.6 | This week, the people of Al-Fashir, beaten and threatened, attacked and hunted, fled for their lives from a murderous militia that films itself |
| 0:43.3 | unleashing ferocious violence. |
| 0:47.3 | A fighter shows off his work. |
| 0:49.3 | We've burned them, he says. |
| 0:51.3 | We've burned them. |
| 0:52.3 | They show off their horror and document their own war crimes with videos too graphic to show. |
| 0:59.0 | The paramilitary rapid support forces turned an alfasher convoy trying to escape into a killing field, a ditch, into a mass grave, |
| 1:09.0 | and a home for healing into a death trap. |
| 1:12.1 | The UN and international humanitarian groups accuse the RSF of entering Al-Fashar's Saudi |
| 1:17.0 | maternity hospital and killing everyone inside. |
| 1:22.3 | At least 450 people are dead. |
| 1:26.0 | Survivor Fatma Abdul Rahman tries to, but is burdened by unimaginable |
| 1:30.7 | loss and trauma. |
| 1:34.3 | Shelling killed my daughter, injured my other daughter's eye and paralyzed my son. I was hit by |
| 1:40.2 | shelling. My body is full of wounds. El Fasher was the last holdout in Darfur of the Sudanese armed forces, which has fought |
| 1:50.0 | the RSF in a brutal three-year civil war. Sudanese cities have become battlegrounds. Both sides |
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