The United Nations' top envoy in Sudan is stepping down, four months after being told by the government to leave. In parting remarks, he criticized Sudan's military and the rebel Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.
"This conflict is leaving a tragic legacy of human rights abuses," Volker Perthes told a Security Council meeting on Wednesday."Indiscriminate attacks against civilians committed by the warring parties constitute gross violations of human rights."
Of particular concern is escalating ethnically targeted fighting in the Darfur region. The region saw wide-scale ethnic violence and crimes against humanity in the early 2000s, and the U.N. fears a repeat now. Perthes said both sides are arbitrarily arresting, detaining and even torturing and executing civilians.
A group of Security Council diplomats issued a statement expressing alarm about the rampant use of sexual violence in the conflict.
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