UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva on Friday that if nothing was done to check the situation, the conflict would reignite ethnic clashes in the western Darfur region which had left nearly 100 dead in a matter of days, Manila Bulletin reports.
The United Nations has decried the rate of prison breaks amid the violence raging in Sudan, leading to the escape of Sudanese war crimes suspects and worsening impunity.
UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva on Friday that if nothing was done to check the situation, the conflict would reignite ethnic clashes in the western Darfur region which had left nearly 100 dead in a matter of days, Manila Bulletin reports.
Shamdasani said, "We're very, very deeply alarmed by the prison breaks.
"We're very worried about the prospect of further violence, amid a generalised climate of impunity," she warned.
Her comments follow several jailbreaks, including of a high-security prison holding suspected war criminals, since violence erupted across Sudan two weeks ago.
Shamdasani said the UN was concerned the impunity symbolised by the jailbreaks "is at the root of a lot of what we are seeing today."
"When you see continued impunity for serious violations... it emboldens the perpetrators."
At least 512 people have been killed and 4,193 wounded in the two weeks of fighting between Sudan's army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary RSF commanded by his deputy-turned-rival, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The UN has not yet been able to verify the casualty numbers, given by Sudan's health ministry, but Shamdasani warned they "must be a serious underestimate".
"The human rights situation continues to dramatically deteriorate," she said.
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes, with tens of thousands fleeing into neighbouring countries.
But Shamdasani warned that thousands remain trapped in residential areas where fighting has been taking place.
A former head of the al-Bashir's regime in Sudan wanted for crimes against humanity recently announced that he fled prison with other former collaborators in the country in full chaos, according to Africa News.
According to the army, former leader Omar al-Bashir did not flee with his lieutenants because he was in hospital.
Ousted Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir is "still in a hospital under the guard of the judicial police", the army announced on Wednesday, after Ahmed Haroun, one of his lieutenants, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that he had escaped with others from Kober prison in the capital Khartoum.
His whereabouts could not be independently verified.