The UN Human Rights Council is examining the situation in al-Fashir in Sudan at an emergency meeting and is mulling a potential fact-finding mission on reported mass killings as the city in Darfur fell to paramilitary forces.

The fact-finding mission, included in a draft resolution, would also seek to identify the perpetrators of violations allegedly committed by the Rapid Support Forces and their allies in al-Fashir.

In an opening address to delegates, the UN human rights chief urged the international community to act.

"There has been too much pretence and performance, and too little action. It must stand up against these atrocities – a display of naked cruelty used to subjugate and control an entire population," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said.

The RSF has deni

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