Fighting raged Tuesday June 27 in Khartoum between the paramilitaries who threaten to take the city and the army which now calls on all young people in Sudan to join the flag, on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
In the capital, fighting between the army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo, known as “Hemedti”, is now concentrated around military bases. The FSR are, since the beginning of the war, on April 15, present en masse in the residential areas where they had established their bases for a long time. The army tries to use its main asset: the air, which it controls alone, without its infantry managing to gain a foothold in the huge city crossed by two arms of the Nile.
For several days, the FSR have been trying to take the last army bases in the capital where millions of inhabitants are still hiding – nearly a million and a half have left, fleeing stray bullets and water cuts. and electricity in the harassing heat. The RSF took over the police headquarters and its huge arsenal in southern Khartoum and harassed the army on Tuesday at bases in central, northern and southern Khartoum, residents told AFP . If they take these last bases, they will have taken control of Khartoum, assure the experts.
The two generals address the nation
On the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the two warring generals shared a message to the nation. General al-Burhan to call on state television “ all the young people of the country and all those who can defend it not to hesitate to do so (…) or to join the military units “. And General Daglo to respond in a voice recording posted online to accusations of “ crimes against humanity “of the UN and of war” ethnic in Darfur (west), where its former militiamen are accused of atrocities in the bloody war launched in 2003.
On Tuesday, again, the Troika for Sudan — Norway, the United States and Great Britain — denounced ” human rights violations, sexual violence and violence with an ethnic dimension, globally attributed to the FSR and their allied militias “. The boss of the paramilitaries promised “ fast and strict actions “against his men who carried out such abuses, while the FSR claim to have begun to judge certain members” unruly “.
And as calls for civilians multiply to demonstrate massively against RSF abuses in Khartoum this Friday, June 30, Hemedti warned against the army’s attempts to use civilians in war.
We followed the calls to demonstrate in areas of military operations launched by the army. We respect the right to peaceful protest, but these calls are a malicious plot that draws civilians into war. This stratagem aims to hide the failure of the survivors of the old regime in their war against our valiant forces. They want to use unarmed civilians as fuel for this war. We call for disregarding these calls and avoiding demonstrations in areas of military operations in order to ensure the safety of our innocent citizens. Their attempt to solicit the help of citizens is ridiculous. Whoever cares about civilians does not bombard them with planes and artillery. This is happening now, as it has happened in the past in many parts of Sudan. The national problem that we face in these delicate circumstances requires the unity and solidarity of all to eliminate these corrupt people who destroyed Sudan and who still seek to restore their rule.
General Hemedti accuses the army of wanting to involve civilians in the war
General Daglo, himself from an Arab tribe in Darfur, called for ” avoid plunging into civil war This gold-rich region where more than a quarter of Sudanese live. General al-Burhan denounced, like many inhabitants of non-Arab ethnic groups, a “ genocide of the FSRs.
(with AFP)