Darfur

And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience.

A genocide was taking place in Darfur.

El Fasher is the capital of North Darfur, where fighting has recently escalated between the rival Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, based inside the city, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, who have now reportedly advanced into it.

More than 800,000 civilians are sheltering in El Fasher, and a full-scale battle could unleash atrocities similar to those of the genocide carried out by Arab Janjaweed fighters against African Zaghawa, Masalit, Fur and other non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur in the early 2000s.

In West Darfur, she said Masalit communities have been targeted, with many people killed as they fled to Chad or during the conflict.

Then, a targeted effort to resolve the Darfur conflict would be crucial, especially given that, of late, there are small signs of hope there.