“They were killing the wounded in their beds” – Horrific testimonies of the massacre in Sudan with thousands of dead

Telling and shocking are the testimonies coming from El Fasher, the superior of North Darfur authorities successful Sudan, aft the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the metropolis connected Sunday pursuing an 18-month siege.

Nawal Khalil, 27, a unpaid caregiver astatine El Fasher South hospital, was connected work erstwhile RSF militants stormed the hospital. “They killed six wounded soldiers and civilians successful their beds – among them women,” she described. “I don’t cognize what happened to my different patients. I had to tally erstwhile they came in.”

Halil was wounded successful the ft and thigh by bullets arsenic fighters occupied the military command adjacent the hospital. She managed to flight connected foot, wounded and without food, walking a afloat time to Garney City. “They took my telephone and wealth – they near maine with nothing,” she said.

Mass formation and civilian executions

More than 1,000 people, including galore women and children, walked for 2 days to scope the municipality of Tawila, astir 55 kilometers (55 kilometers) westbound of El Fasher, aft the metropolis fell. The country is nether the power of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA-AW), the enactment of Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nour, reports the Guardian.

According to the Common Forces, moving with Sudan’s regular army, much than 2,000 civilians person been killed since the metropolis was taken. The UN confirmed that circulating videos amusement “dozens of unarmed men being changeable oregon lying dead, surrounded by RSF fighters.”

Hostages and ransom for freedom</h3 Witnesses said thousands of civilians stay trapped successful Garney, southwest of El Fasher, nether the RSF and its allies. Among them are former soldiers of the Sudanese service and members of equipped organizations that fought alongside it.

Survivors who arrived successful Tawila study that the militants are demanding a ransom of 5 to 10 cardinal Sudanese pounds (6,000 to 12,000 pounds sterling) to merchandise the prisoners.

Those who cannot wage are held for days, and immoderate are released lone erstwhile they go earnestly ill.

“They wanted to chopped disconnected my head.”

Adam Yagub, 28, a operator from Senar successful central Sudan, said helium was miraculously spared erstwhile helium was captured by 3 enforcers connected camels adjacent Garney. “They wanted to chopped my caput disconnected with a knife,” helium said, pointing to his limb that was deed with a Kalashnikov stock.

“I was saved by 1 of them, who recognized maine due to the fact that his member was moving with me.”

“We near 18 radical from El Fasher – lone 8 of america made it to Tawila alive. The others, I believe, are dead.” He claimed to person seen 22 bodies adjacent a “fake well” utilized by RSF fighters to trap people.

“You locomotion each time without water, you get there, and civil guards are waiting for you. They killed 22 men and hid their bodies.”

Hospitals nether siege

A 2nd caregiver who was astatine El Fasher South described that RSF militants entered the infirmary done the main gross and opened occurrence connected the exigency ward, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 patients.

“We ran retired of the backmost door, but they deed maine connected the caput with the banal of the gun,” helium said.

RSF main Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, known arsenic Hemendi, said successful a video connection Wednesday that immoderate worker oregon serviceman who “violated the rights of immoderate quality being” will beryllium held accountable, but organizations quality his pledge.

Exhaustion and starvation for refugees

Those who managed to flight described nights hiding adjacent the subject gun battery and marching successful the acheronian to debar gunfire.

Families already displaced from the Abu Shuk campy were forced to fly again, this clip to the Darajah Ula neighborhood, earlier yet reaching Tawila.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said their hospital successful Tawila received implicit 1,000 recently displaced radical overnight.

“People arrived exhausted, dehydrated, galore successful a authorities of utmost weakness,” said Sylvain Penicount, MSF’s programme coordinator.

Continued conflict

SLA-AW has deployed further forces astir Tawila to support refugees and forestall clashes should RSF forces effort to prosecute retreating groups with their weapons.

Meanwhile, parts of the Sudanese service and allied forces proceed to defy successful the northwest, successful the Jebel Wana region, pursuing the nonaccomplishment of El Fasher.

The decades-long calamity successful Darfur takes connected a caller magnitude of horror, with testimonies reminiscent of the worst warfare crimes of the aboriginal 2000s.

Government expels UN officials aft El Fasher massacres

In this tense situation, the Sudanese authorities decided to expel Laurent Boukera, the manager of the World Food Programme (WFP) successful Sudan, and Samantha Chatarah, the WFP’s exigency assistance coordinator successful Sudan.

Samana WFP’s Humanitarian Aid Coordinator, Sanaja WFP’s Humanitarian Aid Coordinator for Sudan.

UN unit had 72 hours to permission the country. The authorities has yet to explicate its decision.

It is not the archetypal clip the Sudanese authorities has resorted to specified a measure, Spiegel recalls.

In June 2023, the UN peculiar envoy, German diplomat Volker Perthes, was declared persona non grata. He was accused of inciting the struggle successful Sudan.

The militants did not spare the Red Crescent staff: 5 Red Crescent volunteers were killed during a caller mission.

“The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is shocked, disappointed and profoundly saddened,” the Geneva-based umbrella organisation said.

The volunteers died successful the municipality of Barra, astir 300 kilometres southwest of Khartoum, wearing vests that distinguished them arsenic members of the Red Crescent. Three of their colleagues are inactive missing.