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The United Kingdom sanctioned 15 Sudanese military commanders and militia leaders on Monday, charging both sides of the country’s civil war with raping, torturing and starving civilians.

Getting into it: The sanctions hit figures from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Armed Forces and militias that fight alongside the army, freezing their assets, banning them from travel and barring them from serving as company directors. They landed exactly a year after the RSF took the city of El Fasher at the end of an 18-month siege, killing as many as 10,000 people over two days, with another 40,000 still missing. The city, home to more than 1 million people before the war, is now estimated to hold fewer than 70,000.

The UK also put up about $20 million in aid, with some money earmarked for survivors of sexual violence.

In their announcement, the UK accused:

• RSF Col. Hussein Abu Jalak of violence against civilians during the El Fasher siege
• RSF Lt. Col. Abbas Khater Bakhit of torturing detainees after the takeover
• RSF commander Khademallah Khashmin Herika of encouraging rape in El Fasher and Garni
• Former RSF commander Al-Nour Ahmed Adam, known as “Al-Qubba,” of past abuses before he switched to the army
• Former RSF commander Ali Rizqallah of past abuses before he switched to the army
• Army Brig. Gen. Ahmed Barrir Haj Ahmed of involvement in the Wad Madani massacre in Gezira State
• Abu Zaid Talha Al-Misbah, leader of the army-allied Islamist Al-Baraa bin Malik Battalion, of attacks on civilians in Gezira State

In a statement, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said, “A year on from the atrocities in El Fasher, UK-funded investigations have shown that rape and starvation are still being weaponized against the people of Sudan.”

The sanctions follow one of those investigations, a report from the Centre for Information Resilience, which found both sides using starvation and sexual violence against civilians. It documented women and girls being kidnapped, repeatedly raped and held in conditions it compared to sexual slavery, along with footage of RSF fighters talking about cutting off El Fasher’s water and blocking food from getting in.