Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) raided a village in Al-Jazira state and killed around 100 people, an official said.
Al-Jazeera Governor Al-Tahir Ibrahim Al-Khair told the official Sudan News Agency that the RSF’s “brutal violence” in and around Wad Al-Noora constituted a “comprehensive war crime”.
Stressing the need for international condemnation of the incident, Al-Khair said that “the militias continue their daily war against citizens. They subject people to the harshest forms of torture and loot all their property.”
In the posts of local civil resistance committees on social networks, this event is described as a massacre.
“The village of Wad Al-Noora witnessed genocide today after RSF militias attacked the village on two occasions,” it said.
Images posted on social media purportedly from the village show more than 100 people buried in a mass grave.
Since the war began in mid-April 2023 and spread to most of the Sudanese states, the army has maintained control in the northern and eastern states, and the RSF in the western and southern states.
Attempts to end the conflict through talks in Jeddah brokered by Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, a peace initiative led by neighboring countries led by Egypt, efforts by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in East Africa and talks in Bahrain’s capital, Manama, have not yielded results.
According to the UN, the conflict in Sudan has killed more than 16,000 people, displaced some 8.7 million people, and left more than 25 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, making it one of the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises, AA writes.
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