Seventy -four were executed in the western (south) and eleven were killed in an attack on displaced in the Nile River (center).
The Sudan Doctor Network civil organization reported on Thursday that 85 people, including 16 children, died in two attacks in the Western Cordofon and Rio Nile states, attributed to the Fast Support Forces (RSF), one of the parts in Sudan conflict.
According to this organization, which accompanies the victims in the context of the Civil War triggered in April 2023 in that African country between the RSF paramilitaries and the Sudanese army, those 74 were executed in the Western (south) and eleven were killed in an attack on displaced people on the Nile River (Center).
The organization stated on its account on social network X that “RSF committed a massacre in the city of Al Zaafa, the Western Cordofon, killing 74 people, including 12 children and nine women”, where all the “executed” victims during the attack, which also left “178 wounded from different degrees”.
Sudan Doctors Network: Rapid Support Forces Commit Massacre in “Al-Za’afah” Village, West Kordofan, Killing 74 People Including 12 Children and 9 Women
A force from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a horrific massacre against residents of *Al-Za’afah* village in…
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The group “vehemently” condemned the “murders perpetrated by the RSF in the localities of the Western Cordofon, ignoring the most basic human rights”, while criticizing the paramilitaries for “killing unarmed civilians, looting their properties and burning their homes” and denounced “international silence in the process of documentary war committed by RSF.”
Sudan Doctors Network said that 11 people were killed, including four children, and 22 were injured in another RSF attack on a camp of displaced people in the city of Atbara, in the Nile River, stressing that it “constitutes a deliberate target of civil areas in the city” without the paramilitaries made any statement on the subject.
“The attacks on infrastructure and the fields of internal displaced people on the Nilo River, Cordofão do Sul and Darfur are a continuation of RSF violations against civilians,” the organization said, asking the UN and other international organs to “press the leadership of the militias to stop their civilian violations and the attacks on infrastructure” in Sudan.
The war between the Army and the RSF began in April 2023 due to strong disagreements about the paramilitary group’s integration process – now declared as a terrorist – in the Armed Forces, a situation that led to the definitive end of the transition process ongoing in that country to civilians, after the fall of the Omar Hassan al -Bir regime in 2019, through a military coup.
This transition process suffered a serious setback in October 2021, when the army head and president of the Sovereign Council of Transition, Abdelfatá al-Burhan, organized a new coup d’état-supported by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, RSF leader and then his ally-following which Prime Minister Abdalá Hamdok was overthrown.
Attempts to redirect the situation and integrate the RSF in the army eventually triggered a large -scale conflict that plunged the country into a serious humanitarian crisis.
