A United Nations fact-finding mission reports that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carry out a systematic campaign of violence in Darfur that it says amounts to genocide. The probe describes mass killings and widespread sexual violence, including gang rapes, along with abductions of women and girls. It also cites other grave abuses, including starvation and forced deprivation in connection with RSF operations in a city that it says the forces besieged and captured last year. The UN findings characterize the pattern of conduct as intentional and as part of a policy rather than isolated incidents. The mission concludes that the scale and nature of the violence meet the threshold for genocide under international law. The reports emphasize that the evidence points to coordinated attacks affecting targeted groups in the region, including through crimes committed during or associated with the siege and takeover of the city. The UN probe’s conclusions are based on its investigation of the events and the circumstances surrounding the RSF’s actions in Darfur.