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===2023: Renewed massacres in El Geneina===

===2023: Renewed massacres in El Geneina===

In mid-2023, as the civil war spread to Darfur, RSF forces and allied Arab militias launched coordinated attacks on non-Arab communities in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur. Between April and June, an estimated 5,000 civilians—mostly Masalit—were killed in house-to-house raids, with survivors reporting fighters shouting ethnic epithets and systematically executing men and boys.<ref name="reuters-sept">{{Cite web |title=The Slaughter of El Geneina |url= (implied from context; full URL not provided in source) |publisher=Reuters |date=2023-09-22}}</ref><ref name="reuters-apr"/> Sexual violence was rampant, with women and girls raped as a tool of subjugation, consistent with patterns of Arab racist domination.<ref name="state-dept"/>

In mid-2023, as the civil war spread to Darfur, RSF forces and allied Arab militias launched coordinated attacks on non-Arab communities in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur. Between April and June, an estimated 5,000 civilians—mostly Masalit—were killed in house-to-house raids, with survivors reporting fighters shouting ethnic epithets and systematically executing men and boys.<ref name="reuters-sept">{{Cite web |title=The Slaughter of El Geneina |url= https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/sudan-politics-darfur/ |publisher=Reuters |date=2023-09-22}}</ref><ref name="reuters-apr"/> Sexual violence was rampant, with women and girls raped as a tool of subjugation, consistent with patterns of Arab racist domination.<ref name="state-dept"/>

The violence displaced over 300,000 people, many fleeing to Chad, where refugees described RSF checkpoints where non-Arabs were separated and killed.<ref name="reuters-apr"/> Genocide Watch labeled these acts as the onset of a "new genocide," citing the intent to destroy non-Arab groups through killings and preventing returns via land seizures by Arab settlers.<ref name="reuters-apr"/>

The violence displaced over 300,000 people, many fleeing to Chad, where refugees described RSF checkpoints where non-Arabs were separated and killed.<ref name="reuters-apr"/> Genocide Watch labeled these acts as the onset of a "new genocide," citing the intent to destroy non-Arab groups through killings and preventing returns via land seizures by Arab settlers.<ref name="reuters-apr"/>