Seen from space, Sudan’s bloody gates reveal the carnage

Credit: RSF

The hot sand surrounding the Sudanese town of El Fasher is red with the blood of more than 2,000 people killed.

The pools of blood are so thick, the piles of bodies so clear, that the ethnic cleansing allegedly carried out by the Sudanese Paramilitary rebels is visible from the sky.

Militia groups that defend this city near the kingdom are accused by the rapid ground forces (RSF) of “committing serious crimes against innocent citizens” and said that most of the dead are women, children and elderly people.

Another video purports to show a child soldier killing an elderly person in cold blood. Another shows that RSF fighters killed the rebels several times after they freed themselves.

The exact death toll could not be immediately confirmed, but satellite images taken after the city fell at the weekend following an 18-month siege showed evidence of mass killings.

Analysis by the Yale School of Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which followed the siege using aerial photographs and satellite images, found clusters of objects “commensurate with the size of human bodies” and “red soil” that reflects.

Body-sized objects were found embedded in vehicles and the RSF sand Berm built in the city. There were reports of residents being shot as they tried to break free and flee.

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The lab said it also found evidence of “door-to-door transmission”.

It concluded: “El Fasher appears to be a systematic and purposeful process of ethnic cleansing of … Non-Arab communities through forced and summary executions”.

More than a quarter of a million people are languishing in the city under starvation and bombardment, in what used to be the army’s last bastion in the greater Darfur region.

Sudan’s six-year civil war has fueled ethnic bloodshed in the region, with RSF fighters accused of killing black African gangs to seize their land.

The RSF is drawn mainly from the Arab Militias and formed from the famous jajaweed, responsible for genocide and many atrocides in Darfur in the last 20 years.

The capture of the RSF in other included structures, including El geneina in 2023, led to the killing of thousands of people.

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Refugees and Aid workers have spent the past 18 months warning that similar violence could happen if El Fasher falls.

Cameron Hudson, the former director of the National Security Council for Africa, said: “We have seen from El Fasher before.

“It was two years ago in El Geneina and as the RSF took the city, it initiated a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It’s happening again and still we do nothing. Shame on them. Shame on us.”

Tens of thousands of people have brought El Fasher since it fell, many heading west through Tawila.

A video clip showing panicked aircraft shows scores running across the city, clutching their gear as RSF Fighters scream in anger and beat them.

In one incident, a few soldiers wearing the RSF trademark brother brown brotherm brown brotherm brown brotherm brown brotherm brotherm brown brotherm and a turban were seen crowding a truck, chasing away unarmed civilians as they ran for their lives.

Gunshots are heard as one fighter shouts “Kill the NUBA”, referring to the black Sudanese tribes of Africa.

Reports indicate that the RSF is deliberately forcing displaced civilians down into areas under their control, effectively the country of the people, and away from active agencies such as Tawila, where other international agencies such as Tawila operate.

According to Jeremy Konydyk, President of Refugees International, RSF is preventing people from fleeing the town in other directions, by preventing movement to the south and west, and forcing them to seek protection.

Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, said: “We are seeing a disturbing example of abuse in El Fasher, including systematic killings, torture and sexual violence.”

The Human Rights Office said it had received “numerous, alarming reports that the RSF is committing atrocities, including summary executions”.

Volker Türk, the UN rights chief, said that the risk of further serious violations, serious violations and violations of the law in El Fasher was “set by the day”.

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Sudan’s disastrous civil war is entering its third year and UN and AID agencies say the fighting has produced the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The competition between the De Facto President, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his Deputy, Gen Mohamed Haman Dagalo, known as Hemedti, flared into the open in April 2023.

The fighting forced 14 million to flee their homes and some estimates put the death toll at 150,000. The health system has collapsed and several parts of the country have gone into famine.

A UN fact-finding mission accused both sides of committing “a wide range of human rights violations and international crimes”, including mass rape, imprisonment and torture.

Rivals have turned to states asking for help, with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) accused of supporting the RSF with supplies and mercenaries in Chad and Libya.

The Sudanese army has revealed that it is supported by Egypt, Russia and Iran.

The UAE strongly denies supporting the coalition and says it was suppressing the fire.

The country is part of the Quad of Nations, alongside the United States, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which have been leading peace efforts.

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