RSF Militia Kills Over 200 People As Ruto Hosts Its Leaders In Nairobi
Sudan’s paramilitary troops launched a three-day assault outside Khartoum, murdering over 200 people, the Emergency Lawyers Network reported Tuesday.
According to the rights group, hundreds of people were injured or missing, and hundreds were subjected to “executions, kidnappings, forced disappearances, and looting.”
According to the lawyers’ network, paramilitaries shot at villages as they attempted to bridge the White Nile to escape, and some civilians may have drowned.
The foreign ministry of the army-backed administration reported that 433 people, including children, were slain.
🚨 Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a brutal three-day assault in White Nile state, killing 433 people, Sudan’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
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“Some bodies are still lying in the street, and some were killed in their homes and no one can reach them,” a medical source told AFP news agency, saying it was impossible to determine the actual death toll.
The rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched paramilitary attacks on the villages of Al-Kadaris and Al-Khelwat in White Nile state, 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the city.
The UN had received “horrifying reports that dozens of women were raped and hundreds of families were forced to flee,” a spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated.
Both factions are presently vying for control of the White Nile State, which runs from south of Khartoum to the border with South Sudan.
The army controls southern districts, while the RSF controls the north.
RSF’s Human Rights Violations
The attorneys’ network alleged on Tuesday that the army carried out “barbaric” attacks on residents east of Khartoum.
#VantageHighlights: Sudan Civil War: RSF Kills Over 200 Civilians in 3 Days | #VantageOnFirstpost with @palkisu
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On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council stated that “summary executions, sexual violence, and other violations and abuses underscore the utter failure” of both parties to comply with international humanitarian law.
The RSF recently rallied allied politicians and armed organizations in Nairobi, Kenya, to sign a charter establishing a “Government of Peace and Unity” in Sudan.
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Sudan has been at war since April 2023.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed, more than 12 million have been displaced, and hundreds of thousands have gone hungry as a result of the violence.
More than 24.6 million people, or over half of Sudan’s population, are experiencing “high levels of acute food insecurity,” according to the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification effort.
The International Rescue Committee has described it as the “biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded.”
RSF Militia Kills Over 200 People As Ruto Hosts Its Leaders In Nairobi
