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Sudanese popular and medical organizations accused the Rapid Support Forces of committing 3 massacres within two days, which left 68 dead and hundreds injured in attacks in the states of Al-Jazira, North Darfur, and South Kordofan, in addition to looting and looting.

The Preliminary Committee of the Doctors Syndicate said that 28 people were killed and 240 others were injured in the village of Umm Adham, in Al-Hasahisa locality, in Al-Jazeera state in central Sudan, in an attack launched by the Rapid Support Forces yesterday, Saturday.

The committee explained, in a statement, that the Rapid Support Forces "launched an attack with heavy and light weapons on the village, after besieging it, and opened fire randomly and intensely on the residents, which led to this large number of casualties."

The committee noted the difficulty of monitoring the total number of victims “due to the inaccessibility of health facilities, amidst the shooting, the interruption of communications service, and the state of panic and displacement experienced by the village’s residents.”

The committee called on the international community and all human rights and humanitarian organizations to “intervene immediately to stop these violations and work to hold those responsible for these massacres accountable.”

For its part, "resistance committees" in the city of Al-Hasahisa in Al-Jazeera State accused the Rapid Support Forces of killing more than 20 people and wounding 200 others "in an ongoing attack since yesterday, Saturday, by a force of 200 armed men on board 4 combat vehicles and 60 motorcycles."

She explained that this force "surrounded the village in an attempt to plunder, and the citizens tried to confront the attacking forces who opened fire on them randomly, which led to a large number of deaths and injuries."

Killing, looting and displacement

In the Darfur region, the Justice and Equality Movement, led by Jibril Ibrahim, accused the Rapid Support Forces of killing 20 citizens and wounding dozens of others, most of them shepherds in villages west of the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state.

The movement stated, in a statement, that the Rapid Support Forces attacked the Dorma region and the eastern parts of rural Korma, and “carried out acts of looting, looting, and destruction of lifestyles and demographic change campaigns they are pursuing.”

The movement appealed to the United Nations and the international community to force rapid support to adhere to international human rights treaties and laws, and to hold it accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity, which these militias have continued to commit in the various regions they have entered or are under their control.

For its part, the Displacement Tracking Matrix, affiliated with the International Organization for Migration, said that about 763 families were displaced from the villages of Sarfaya Darma and Janjouna in the El Fasher countryside, to various locations throughout El Fasher locality, after an unknown armed group launched an attack on the villages, resulting in the burning of 72 houses. .

On the other hand, the Kordofan People's Authority for Defending the Homeland said that the Rapid Support Forces committed a massacre against civilians in villages in Abbasiya locality in South Kordofan state on Sunday.

The Authority stated, in a statement, that the Rapid Support Forces attacked the Qardud Nama area in the villages of Al-Lubban, Al-Salamat, and Duqaq Forma for the second time during the month of Ramadan, resulting in 20 deaths and dozens of injuries.

She explained that the Rapid Support Forces attacked villages and towns with combat vehicles and motorcycles, opened fire on citizens to terrorize them, looted their property, including cars, agricultural equipment, livestock, agricultural crops, and goods from markets, and burned dozens of homes.

The Commission called on citizens to join the popular resistance to defend themselves, and called on the army to arm citizens and intervene to expel the “rebel militia” from areas in Kordofan, and called on international organizations to condemn the Rapid Support Forces and hold them accountable.

Source: Al Jazeera