More than 200 unarmed civilians were killed in a group of villages in Sudan for three days by the paramilitary support forces (RSF) which participate in a brutal conflict with the army, said a group for the defense of local rights.
The emergency lawyer network said that the attacks had taken place in Al-Kadaris and Al-Khelwat to the northern state of the white Nile-the regions where the army had no presence.
RSF fighters were guilty of “executions, kidnappings, forced disappearances and looting of goods,” added the network.
The RSF, allied with the military before the civil war in April 2023, did not comment on the allegations.
The two had come to power together during a coup – but came across an international plan to go to the civil regime.
Some high leaders of the RSF are currently in Kenya where they should announce plans to form their own government in areas under their control.
Analysts warn that the decision could deepen divisions in Sudan.
The humanitarian workers sounded the alarm on Sudan, where the conflict forced around 12 million people at home.
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed, the RSF and the army accused of having committed atrocities.
At the heart of this conflict is a collapse between the de facto sovereign of Sudan and the army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his assistant who became rival Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, who directs the RSF.
The RSF recently made a blow when the army has regained control of parts of the capital, Khartoum – including its military seat.
Beyond the capital, the army has also won a total control of the crucial state of Gezira.
After the reverse, the RSF rebounded with the intention of launching a rival government in the areas still under its control, which are mainly in Darfur and in certain parts of the state of Kordofan.
The RSF meets groups allied in Nairobi to finalize the adoption of what he calls a “political charter for the government of peace and unity”.
Gen Burhan rejected this decision and promised to recover the whole of Khartoum.
It is currently based in Port Sudan, having been forced to leave Khartoum for months after the civil war when the RSF seized the military seat and the presidential palace.
