UN sudan the bodies at least 87
According to the UN, in Sudan The bodies of at least 87 people allegedly killed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been found in a mass grave, .
Masalit people were among those buried in a shallow grave just outside El-Geneina.The organization said.
Since April Fierce fighting has been continuing b/w the RSF and Sudan's armed forces .
In the recent fighting in West Darfur.But the their allied militias and RSF have denied any involvement.
Millions have been forced from their homes and Thousands have died as a result of fighting between Sudan's regular army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF, led by al-Burhan's former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
On 20 June The UN said at least 37 bodies were buried in the West Darfur region , and another 50 at the same site the next day. those buried which were include women and children.
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Türk Volker UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was "appalled by the callous and disrespectful way the dead, along with their families and communities, were treated".
He called for an investigation into their deaths and said the RSF was obliged to treat the dead "with dignity".
Earlier this week, the RSF rejected allegations from Human Rights Watch that they had killed 28 members of the Masalit community and injured dozens of civilians before destroying the town of Misterei in May.
An adviser to the RSF leadership, Mustafa Mohamed Ibrahim, told the BBC the clashes there were part of an ongoing civil war between Arab groups and the Masalit "which is old and renewed".
There are concerns that attacks by the RSF and Arab militias against the Masalit community could result in a repeat of the 2003 Darfur killings, when Janjaweed militias killed the 300,000 people who later grew into the RSF.
The UN has already received reports of Arab militia targeting Masalit men and said the conflict has taken on an "ethnic dimension".
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