NAIROBI, July 2 -- The woman was 58 years old, and she walked through El Fasher after the Rapid Support Forces had finished. What she counted was nearly a thousand bodies, including children. Her testimony is one of 246 gathered by Amnesty International for a report released Tuesday that makes the most comprehensive documented case yet that what happened in Sudan's last major Darfur city was not the disorder of war but the deliberate targeting of an ethnic group for extinction.

The report covers the RSF's siege of El Fasher from May 2024 to October 2025, culminating in a final offensive Amnesty's investigators say resulted in hundreds executed, many tortured or detained. The organization has submitted its findings to the International Cr...