Shocking Testimonies on Rapid Support Forces’ Atrocities in Sudan
According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr news Agency and Al Jazeera, a 34-year-old survivor named Khalil managed to flee on foot from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, to Al tawila, located 68 kilometers away.
Khalil recounted his harrowing experience to Amnesty International.He described how Rapid Support Forces militia opened fire on a group of 20 men, killing at least 17. To survive,he pretended to be dead.
He said, “Thay were killing peopel like flies.”
Amnesty International reports that crimes committed by the Rapid Support Forces go beyond the killing of civilians and include abductions and sexual violence. Based on testimonies from 28 survivors,Amnesty has classified these acts in El Fasher as war crimes and called for those responsible to be prosecuted.
Another survivor named Badr, aged 26, said he was abducted along with five others and taken to a village near El Fasher. He explained that the Rapid Support Forces executed elderly captives with gunfire before demanding ransom payments of $8,000 from their families. In one case, a man whose family could not pay was executed on camera in front of his relatives.
Women were also primary victims of this violence. Kulthum, a 29-year-old woman, testified she was repeatedly raped after women were separated from men at Zamzam camp. She reported that about eleven younger women were singled out and suffered similar fates.
Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, urged an immediate investigation into these crimes and called for an end to brutal attacks against civilians. Meanwhile, intense clashes continue between sudanese army forces and the Rapid Support Forces across North Kordofan, West Kordofan, and South Kordofan states;a conflict ongoing since April 2023 has resulted in tens of thousands killed and approximately 13 million displaced.
