More than 120 dead in Sudan paramilitary group rampage

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More than 120 ***** in Sudan paramilitary group rampage

Fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day ******* that ******* more than 120 people in one town, a doctors group and the ******* Nations said.

It was the group’s latest ******* against the Sudanese military after suffering a series of setbacks, losing ground to the military in the area. The war, which has been going on for more than a year and a half, has wrecked the ******** country, displacing millions of its population and pushing it to the brink of a full-blown famine.

RSF fighters went on a rampage in villages and towns on the eastern and northern sides of the province of Gezira between October 20 to 25, ********* at civilians and ********* attacking women and ******, the ******* Nations said in a statement Saturday, adding that they looted private and public properties, including open markets.

“These are atrocious *******,” Clementine Nkweta-Salami, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said in a statement on Saturday.

“Women, children, and the most vulnerable are bearing the brunt of a conflict that has already taken far too many lives.”

She said the attacks resembled the horrors committed during the Darfur genocide in the early 2000s, including *****, ******* *********, and mass killings.

The Sudanese Doctors’ Union said in a statement that at least 124 people were ******* and 200 others were wounded in the town of Sariha, adding that the group rounded up at least 150 others. It called on the UN Security Council to pressure the RSF to open “safe corridors” to enable aid groups to reach people in impacted villages.

“There is no way to help the injured or evacuate them for treatment,” the statement said.

Footage circulating online, some shared by RSF fighters themselves, showed members of the paramilitary group abusing detained people. One video showed a man wearing a military uniform grabbing an old man by the ***** and dragging him around as other armed men chanted in the background.

The RSF didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Coordination of Civilian Democratic Forces, an alliance of pro-democracy parties and groups, also accused the RSF of storming villages, and opening ***** on civilians as well as rounding up and mistreating “a large number of residents.”

In a statement, the alliance held the RSF “responsible for these massive violations,” and called for holding the perpetrators accountable.

The ******* on Gezira came as the military had successfully taken back areas held by the RSF.

In September, the military launched a massive operation in and around the capital city of Khartoum, reclaiming large swaths of areas from the RSF. Also, earlier this month, it seized control of Jebel Moya, a strategic mountainous area in Gezira province, as well as areas in Gezira and nearby Sinnar province, driving out RSF forces.

In October, a top RSF commander, Abu Aqlah Keikel, the de facto ruler of Gezira, defected and surrendered himself to the military.

That prompted RSF fighters to ******* villages and towns in Gezira seen as loyal to Keikel, according to local reports.

The war in Sudan began in April 2023 when simmering tensions between the military and the RSF exploded into open fighting in Khartoum, before spreading across the country.

The war has been marked by atrocities such as mass ***** and ethnically motivated killings. The UN and international rights groups say these acts amount to war ******* and ******* against humanity, particularly in the western region of Darfur, which has been facing a bitter onslaught by the RSF.

The conflict has ******* more than 24,000 people so far, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, a group monitoring the conflict since it started.

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