RSF attack on Sudan village kills dozens
Dozens have been killed and many more injured in an attack on a village south of the capital Khartoum in Sudan, reports Asharq Al-Awsat plus agencies.
Since taking over Al-Jazira state, south of Khartoum in December, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have attacked entire villages in the region.
The RSF performed a “massacre” in “the village of Um Adam,” 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of the city on the 6th of April, the Sudan Doctors Committee said in a statement.
The attack “resulted in the killing (of) at least 28 innocent villagers and more than 240 people wounded,” said the committee.
Due to the fighting and difficulty in reaching health facilities, “there are a number of dead and wounded in the village that we were not able to count” added the committee.
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A medical source at the Manaqil hospital, 80 kilometres (50 miles) away confirmed they had “received 200 wounded, some who arrived too late.”
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 70% of Sudan’s health facilities are out of service, while those remaining receive many times their capacity and have inadequate resources.
The source stressed the difficulties of trying to save the victims, stating “We’re facing a shortage of blood, and we don’t have enough medical personnel.”
A civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Parliamentary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out on the 15th of April 2023, killing thousands and sparking widespread hunger within the country.
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Both sides in the conflict have been accused of war crimes such as targeting civilians, indiscriminate shelling of residential areas and looting and obstructing aid.
By March 2023, at least 108 villagers and settlements across the country had been set on fire and “partially or completely destroyed,” the UK-based Center for Information Resilience has found.
West Darfur and Khartoum have experienced the fiercest attacks, up to 15,000 have been killed in a single town in the war-ravaged Darfur region, according to United Nations experts.
The war has not only killed thousands but displaced more than 8.5 million people, almost destroyed Sudan’s infrastructure and pushed the country into the World’s largest hunger crisis.
Asharq Al-Awsat/ Agencies.
