Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council held a session Friday to discuss the situation in El Fasher, Sudan, and to consider a request by member states to dispatch a fact-finding mission following reports of mass killings during the city's fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

According to Qatar News Agency, the proposed resolution calls for the mission to identify those responsible for alleged atrocities committed by the RSF and its allies in El Fasher. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk urged international action, criticizing what he described as too much posturing and too little action, and condemned the brutal tactics used to subjugate an entire population.

Turk also called for measures against individuals and companies fueling and profiting from the war in Sudan, warning of escalating violence in the Kordofan region, where civilians face bombardment, siege, and forced displacement. The draft resolution strongly condemns reports of ethnically motivated killings and urges both the RSF and the Sudanese army to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged, famine-stricken city.