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The bloodstains are visible from space.

In the last weeks, the Rapid Support Forces — one party in Sudan’s years-long civil war — captured the desert city of el-Fasher after a 17-month siege. Since then, fighters have embarked on a campaign of horrors: lining up and executing civilians , systematically killing patients in the city’s last functioning hospital, raping women and girls and shooting those who tried to flee at the city walls. According to the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, the bloodstains soaked into el-Fasher’s sand are so large as to be visible via satellite . Thousands are estimated dead.

So far, this tragedy has largely gone unnoticed in

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