FILE - In this May 18, 2019 file photo, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council that assumed power in Sudan after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, speaks to journalists in Khartoum, Sudan. Amnesty International said Tuesday, June 11, 2019, that Sudanese paramilitary units, the Rapid Support Forces have continued to commit “war crimes and other serious human rights violations” in the Darfur region including the destruction of entire villages, as well as “unlawful killings and sexual violence.” The RSF grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias mobilized by al-Bashir during the Darfur conflict in the early 2000s. Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, is an RSF commander. (AP Photo, File)
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