Sudan images show long-term 'starvation strategy'

“Three years into this war, the biggest threat to people isn’t just the fighting, it’s what these pictures seem to reveal: the starvation being created by the RSF on purpose.” Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► youtube.com
As it prepared its 18-month siege of El Fasher in Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group, started by attacking the farming villages around the city. It burned down 41 villages over three months, attacking them several times, destroying everything they needed to produce food. Research by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab using satellite imagery and remote sensing suggests a “starvation strategy” was enforced on these rural communities. Legal experts say the RSF used mass starvation as a weapon against civilians, which amounts to a war crime. We’ve worked with Yale Humanitarian Research Lab to reveal the damage and the effects it had on people who were displaced from these villages. Watch this video with Guardian reporter Kaamil Ahmed to learn more – and for our in-depth visual investigation tap the link ► theguardian.com
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