Barbara Platt USA

This isn't about quarterly earnings or about tech reviews.

Well, the essence of it, as you were hearing, is that these atrocities are not random excesses of war.

They're widespread.

They're systematic.

There's a pattern there that's being pursued according to a plan or policy with knowledge and intent.

And they say that there are several hallmarks of genocide, which essentially amount to deliberate efforts to physically destroy the targeted population and ethnic group through sexual violence, mass killings.

starvation and destruction.

And they reference the long siege of the city as well as part of that.

They say that intent is very important.

And the only reasonable inference here is that the intent was genocide and that the target was the Zagawa and Fir tribes primarily.

These are indigenous African tribes in Darfur that populate al-Fasher.

And that's where the armed

And this has echoes of the genocide in Darfur two decades ago.

Yes, absolutely.

Two decades ago, it was the U.S.

that determined genocide.

The U.N.

actually never formally did in that case.

So this is the first time it's come this close, I think.

But yes, those Arab militias that form the backbone of the RSF have been targeting non-Arabs they see as enemies.