By any measure of human decency, what has happened in El Fasher — the capital of North Darfur in Sudan — is a catastrophic moral failure. When paramilitary thugs storm a hospital and murder patients in their beds, we’re no longer talking about a civil war. We’re talking about genocide. And the world’s silence is deafening.

According to the World Health Organization and multiple eyewitness accounts, over 460 civilians — including the sick, their family members, and the hospital’s own staff — were gunned down inside South Hospital after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city. These people weren’t combatants. They weren’t holding weapons. They were under IV drips, recovering from childbirth, or trying to protect their children. The hospital, one of the last functioning in the city, became a slaughterhouse.

The RSF has said it will “investigate.” That’s rich coming from a group whose very history is soaked in blood, tracing its roots to the Janjaweed militias that terrorized Darfur in the early 2000s. Saying “we’re investigating” after you kick in hospital doors and execute wounded men is like an arsonist promising to look into how the fire started.

Let’s be clear: hospitals are supposed to be sacred spaces, not war zones. And yet, in this conflict, they’ve become trophies of power: taken, looted, and defiled. This is a war not just on people, but on civilization itself.

Where is the outrage?

The world’s response has been, at best, cautious. Some hand-wringing. A few press releases. Some calls for “restraint.” Restraint? You don’t call for restraint after a massacre. You call for justice. You call for accountability. You demand consequences.

If this had happened in Europe, there would already be UN emergency sessions, front-page headlines, and bipartisan demands for military intervention. But this is Africa, and too often, African blood doesn’t seem to matter to the global elite.

We saw the same apathy during the Rwandan genocide. The same bureaucratic dithering during the Yazidi massacres in Iraq. It’s always the same pattern: wait, watch, wring hands, then send a few peacekeepers once the killing fields are full.

What needs to happen next

• The international community must impose real consequences: sanctions, weapons embargoes, freezing of RSF assets.
• The International Criminal Court should open an immediate case against RSF leadership for crimes against humanity.
• Christian and conservative humanitarian groups should mobilize like never before. Fundraising, prayer chains, and material aid are needed now.
• President Trump’s administration, known for putting America’s interests first, should still recognize that moral leadership matters, and he should lead in pushing allies to respond with strength.

Let’s not wait for history to judge us. Let’s judge ourselves now and act accordingly. For the sake of the innocent. For the sake of what’s right. For the sake of not letting evil write the final chapter in Darfur.