New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- In the scorched earth of Sudan's Darfur region, where the civil war has claimed over 27,000 lives and displaced millions, a new allegation has pierced the fog of atrocity reports. A coalition of Sudanese doctors has accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group locked in a brutal contest with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), of raping 19 women who fled the besieged city of El Fasher. The women, part of tens of thousands escaping a relentless siege, were reportedly assaulted in a chilling display of sexual violence that doctors describe as a weapon of war.

The Sudanese Doctors Network, a respected group of medical professionals operating amid the chaos, documented the assaults in a statement released ...