Up to 250 people killed in alleged chemical attacks in Darfur since January – Amnesty

‘Up to 250 people, many of them children, have died from exposure to suspected chemical weapons in Darfur in the past eight months, Amnesty International has reported. The Sudanese government has denied chemical weapons use.
The alleged chemical weapons attacks took place in each of the four areas in the Jebel Marra area in Darfur that experienced major violence in 2016, Amnesty wrote in its report.
“The scale and brutality of these attacks is hard to put into words,” Tirana Hassan, Amnesty’s director of crisis research, said in a press release on Thursday, reiterating that the use of chemical weapons is a war crime.’
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