Yet, due to trends in violence at the time this resolution was
adopted, the question remains: was it premature for the UN to begin
withdrawing from Darfur? 552 civilians were killed by state and
non-state armed groups in the year prior to the UN adopting Resolution
2363. And even though civilian fatalities dropped in 2017, they were
still almost as high as when the mission began in 2008. In fact, at no
point before 2017 did civilian fatality trends stabilized at low
levels.
Retrospectively, we also see that between the end of 2020 and the
end of 2021 there was a 75% increase in civilian killings.
