Geneva, March 26, 2025 (AFP) - UN rights chief 'deeply shocked' by air strikes on Darfur market

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2025-03-26

UN rights chief Volker Turk said Wednesday he was "deeply shocked" by the reported deaths of hundreds of civilians in air strikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces on a market in Sudan's Darfur region. "My office has learned that 13 of those killed belonged to a single family," Turk said in a statement, adding that civilians "continue to be killed indiscriminately, maimed and mistreated on a near daily basis", and such conduct "must never become norma......

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