RSF Killed at Least 6,000 in El Fasher in 3 Days as UAE Faces Arms-Bridge Accusations
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Updated · Jacobin magazine · May 26
RSF Killed at Least 6,000 in El Fasher in 3 Days as UAE Faces Arms-Bridge Accusations
6 articles · Updated · Jacobin magazine · May 26
At least 6,000 people were killed in El Fasher in the first three days after RSF fighters sealed off neighborhoods on Oct. 25, 2025 and carried out house-to-house executions, the UN Human Rights Office documented.
The report says the killings capped a wider RSF campaign in Darfur that had already included the 2023 El Geneina massacre, where 10,000 to 15,000 people were slaughtered.
It accuses the UAE of sustaining the RSF through a covert airbridge that moved advanced weapons, evacuated wounded fighters and helped smuggling operations despite the Darfur arms embargo.
The article places El Fasher within a broader pattern of Emirati intervention across the Middle East and Africa, arguing Abu Dhabi has backed armed proxies and autocratic allies from Bahrain and Egypt to Libya, Yemen and Sudan.
As Darfur's gold finances the RSF through Dubai, how complicit is the global financial system in this genocide?
With the UAE backing genocide while on the UN Security Council, is international law powerless against wealthy autocratic states?
The UAE's strategy created chaos from Libya to Yemen. Is its ‘sub-imperial’ project a blueprint for future resource wars?
The Fall of El Fasher: Atrocities, UAE Involvement, and the Regional Fallout of Sudan’s War (2023–2026)
Overview
In late October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured El Fasher, ending an 18-month siege and causing a devastating escalation in Sudan’s civil war. The fall of the city was widely described as a continuation of the Darfur genocide, with the UN reporting that the attack bore hallmarks of genocide. The RSF committed mass crimes against civilians, including widespread terror, systematic violence, looting, indiscriminate shooting, and executions. Survivors described how RSF soldiers separated fleeing civilians and executed men, while gruesome videos shared by fighters showed summary executions and abuse. These atrocities highlight the severe humanitarian crisis and ethnic targeting in Darfur.