![]() In Sudan, fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has grown in intensity since April 15, 2023, causing massive displacement, significant civilian casualties, and triggering a humanitarian catastrophe. More than battlefield statistics, civilians are individuals with families, dreams, and hopes. ![]() This alarming trend has been compounded by a lack of accountability, perpetuating a cycle of impunity that parties of the conflict have become adept at exploiting. This means that the number of civilians injured and killed in armed conflict tends to be higher than the number of deaths among combatants. As a result, civilians account now for nearly 90% of causalities in armed conflict. The most recent armed conflicts from Ethiopia to Ukraine, Myanmar, Yemen, and Syria, have shown how state and non-state armed actors are failing to safeguard civilians from harm as required by international humanitarian law. The conflict in Sudan follows a worrying trend of parties in conflict taking insufficient precautions to prevent and reduce civilian harm, and instead shirking their responsibilities by playing the “collateral damage” card. ![]() Yet, warring parties in Sudan have demonstrated an appalling neglect of their obligations, the primary one being to avoid targeting civilians. Saying that civilians have borne the brunt of this new armed conflict may sound familiar. Sudan has become the latest hotspot for various forms of violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
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