‘Bloodstains from space’: El-Fasher exposes the world’s capacity to watch — and not act
When United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk told delegates in Geneva that "bloodstains on the ground in El-Fasher have been photographed from space," he was describing more than a grisly image. He was pointing to a painful paradox of modern conflict: the ability of cameras and satellites to record horrors in near real time, and the chronic inability of the international system to do much about them.
Türk’s blunt address to the UN…