‘They’re going to kill us’: Sudan’s army targets civilians on ethnic basis

In December, Osman Arbab*, 24, and his younger brother were on a bus just outside Atbara, Sudan, when military intelligence stopped it and asked which of the passengers were from Darfur or Kordofan.

The two men are originally from Kordofan, even though they have not lived there for years, and found themselves bundled up with all the other young men on the bus who were from the two places.

The military intelligence officers told them all they were accused of spying for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group and...