Etnische zuiveringen in Darfur #2

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April 10, 2025 (LONDON) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have systematically used rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls as a weapon of war, constituting war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday.

The rights group documented 36 cases of rape or gang rape by RSF soldiers
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https://sudantribune.com/article299552/

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Eyewitnesses near the besieged city of El Fasher, the only big city the RSF does not control in Darfur, accused the predominantly Arab militia of executing humanitarian workers and of targeting people, mainly Zaghawa, based on their ethnicity in the famine-hit Zamzam camp and nearby Abu Shouk camp.

https://www.ft.com/content/52bebd91-a472-4937-8866-711a4e11fe2b

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Their commander insisted there were no civilians like Hafiza, Mostafa and Manahel living in el-Fasher.

"The person who stays in a war zone is participating in the war, there are no civilians, they are all from the army," he said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1755j8788go

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Op woensdag 16 april 2025 12:03 schreef RealistAtheist het volgende:
RSF vecht tegen Arab militia. Het zoveelste voorbeeld van moslims die andere moslims die net even anders over de islam denken naar het leven staan.

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What's New? Ik heb medelijden met de gewone burgers. Al kan ik mij zo voorstellen dat die net zo goed extremistische denkbeelden hebben. Het blijft immers een islamitische hellhole daar, 1 van de velen.

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Op zaterdag 19 april 2025 10:28 schreef Richestorags het volgende:

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Volgens een Soedanees die ik nog ken uit Utrecht gaat dit conflict ook om goud en andere grondstoffen. In hoeverre is dat een factor?

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Plundering. Verkrachting. Slavernij. In Soedan gebeurt het dagelijks, maar wie boeit het? Wie is er nu al afgehaakt in dit artikel, want tja, Soedan. Ondertussen is de verwoesting in het Afrikaanse land totaal. En de aandacht is nihil.

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Op woensdag 23 april 2025 13:09 schreef Wotte het volgende:

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Vind het ook wel een bijzondere reflex dat er dan naar het westen wordt gekeken qua aandacht allicht een oplossing. Je zou zeggen dat die al voldoende schade hebben aangericht in die contreien.

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The eyewitnesses added that RSF resumed their indiscriminate heavy and light artillery attacks on residential neighborhoods on Sunday and Monday, killing at least 60 civilians, including seven women, in the Abu Shouk neighborhood in Al-Hilla in the western sector.

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April 19 (Reuters) - Sitting in a crowd of mothers and children under the harsh sun, Najlaa Ahmed described the moment the Rapid Support Forces men poured into Darfur's Zamzam displacement camp, looting and burning homes as shells rained down and drones flew overhead.
She lost track of most of her family as she fled. "I don't know what's become of them, my mother, father, siblings, my grandmother, I came here with strangers," she said - one of six survivors who told Reuters of arson and executions in the raid.

The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group - two years into its conflict with Sudan's army - seized the massive camp in North Darfur a week ago in an attack that the United Nations says left at least 300 people dead and forced 400,000 to flee.
The RSF did not respond to a request for comment, but has denied accusations of atrocities and said the camp was being used as a base by forces loyal to the army. Humanitarian groups have denounced the raid as a targeted attack on civilians already facing famine.
Najlaa Ahmed managed to get her children to safety in Tawila - a town 60 km (40 miles) from Zamzam controlled by a neutral rebel group - the third time, she said, she had been forced to flee the RSF in a matter of months.

She said she watched seven people die of hunger and thirst, and others succumb to their injuries on her latest journey.
The RSF has posted videos of its second-in-command, Abdelrahim Dagalo, promising to provide displaced people with food and shelter in the camp where famine was determined in August.

BODIES FOUND

More than 280,000 people have sought refuge in Tawila according to the General Coordination for Displaced People and Refugees advocacy group, on top of the half a million that have arrived since the war broke out in April 2023.
Speaking from al-Fashir - the capital of North Darfur 15 km north of Zamzam which the RSF is trying to take from the army - one man who asked not to be named said he had found the bodies of 24 people killed in an attack on a religious school, some of them lined up.
"They started entering people's houses, looting... they killed some people ... After this people fled, running in different directions. There were fires. They had soldiers burning buildings to create more terror."

Another man, an elder in the camp, said the RSF had killed 14 people at close range in a mosque near his home.
"People who are scared always go to the mosque to seek refuge, but they went into every mosque and shot them," he said.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
One video verified by Reuters showed soldiers yelling at a group of older men and young men outside a mosque, interrogating them about a supposed military base.
Other videos verified by Reuters showed RSF soldiers shooting an unarmed man as others lay on the ground. One showed armed men celebrating as they stood around a group of dead bodies.
The RSF has said such videos are fake.

FIGHT FOR DARFUR

The capture of Zamzam comes as the RSF tries to consolidate its control of the Darfur region. Victory in al-Fashir would boost the RSF’s efforts to set up a parallel government to the one controlled by the army which has been on the upswing lately, retaking control of the capital Khartoum.
The war between the Sudanese army - which has also been accused of atrocities, charges it denies - and the RSF broke out in April 2023 over plans to integrate the two forces. The RSF's roots lie in Darfur's Janjaweed militias, whose attacks in the early 2000s led to the creation of Zamzam and other displacement camps across Darfur.

Researchers from the Yale School of Public Health said in a report on Wednesday that more than 1.7 square km of the camp, including the main market, had been burned, and that fires had continued every day since Friday.
The researchers also saw checkpoints around the camp, and witnesses told Reuters that some people were being prevented from leaving.

In Tawila, Medical aid agency MSF received 154 injured people, the youngest of them seven months old, almost all with gunshot wounds, emergency field coordinator Marion Ramstein told Reuters.
Supplies of food, water and shelter were already low before the new arrivals.
"The lucky ones are the ones who find a tree to sit under," Ramstein said.
Ahmed Mohamed, who arrived in Tawila this week, said he was robbed of all his possessions by soldiers on the road, and was now sleeping on the bare ground.
"We are in need of everything a human being would need," he said.

https://www.reuters.com/w(...)zam-camp-2025-04-19/

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Op woensdag 23 april 2025 14:56 schreef HSG het volgende:

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No jews no news.

Palestijnen zijn belangrijker.

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Op woensdag 23 april 2025 15:45 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Sudan is geen bondgenoot zoals Israel dat wel is en bovendien is het een ver van ons bed show.

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Op woensdag 16 april 2025 11:11 schreef Qarrad het volgende:
Uitgebreid artikel door de BBC. Ze zijn erin geslaagd om telefoons (camera's) aan een drietal burgers in El Fasher te geven om zo meer beeld te krijgen van de situatie.

De RSF beweert dat er geen burgers meer zitten, maar de beelden bewijzen anders...
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