In Sudan, abuses by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by General Mohamad Hamdane Daglo, known as Hemedti, continue for the tenth consecutive day in eastern Al-Jazirah state, in the center-east of the country. A man testifies to the horrors he experienced, after the defection of a military leader from this region from the FSR.
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Since the defection from Abou Akla Kikel’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF)a military leader from eastern Al-Jazirah State who joined the Sudanese armyAbdel Fattah al-Burhanabuses in the region have affected several towns and villages, and civilians are deliberately targeted.
Tuesday October 29, several people were killed in the village of al-Hilaliya. According to local NGOs, the number of victims killed over the past ten days in eastern Al-Jazirah amounts to more than 400 people.
The paramilitaries kill, pillage and force residents to flee. The network of doctors Sudan claimed that the RSF killed four people and attacked the medical team on Tuesday, before looting the hospital in Wad al-Fadl, a town in eastern Al-Jazirah.
“ The FSR threatens everyone who refuses to leave »
“ Since the defection of Abou Akla Kikel, the RSF have launched a campaign of revenge, with atrocious massacres. They started from the town of Rofaa and headed towards Tamboul. All villages located in the area have been subject to systematic killings, rapes and looting, leading to forced displacement. », testifies a man who remains anonymous for security reasons, on the microphone ofHouda Ibrahim. He had fled Al-Fasher and was forced to flee again. He lost twenty members of his family.
“ The FSR threatens anyone who refuses to leave. Sometimes these forces kill children. Currently, the majority of villages in eastern Al-Jazirah are empty. The residents fled, leaving behind everything they owned. There are no more medical services, there is no more drinking water. The FSR stole the solar panels that operated the water stations “, he confides.
“ The situation is deplorable and the world is not reacting. Nobody talks about what is happening in Tamboul, while the RSF continue to carry out these revenge operations. », concludes this witness.
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