{"id":136338,"date":"2025-11-03T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=136338"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:51:09","slug":"hundreds-killed-as-sudans-rapid-support-forces-seize-el-fasher-thousands-trapped-amid-atrocities-in-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/sudan\/136338-hundreds-killed-as-sudans-rapid-support-forces-seize-el-fasher-thousands-trapped-amid-atrocities-in-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Killed as Sudan\u2019s Rapid Support Forces Seize El-Fasher, Thousands Trapped Amid Atrocities in Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aid agencies and Sudanese officials say atrocities are mounting in the western city of El-Fasher after Sudan\u2019s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city from the national army last week, raising fears for tens of thousands trapped inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Norwegian Refugee Council and the U.N. migration agency (IOM), only a few thousand civilians have managed to flee to safety since the RSF took control, despite over 70,000 people being displaced. Fewer than 6,000 survivors have reached the nearest camp in Tawila, around 65 kilometers away, as gunfire and checkpoints along the route have made escape nearly impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shashwat Saraf, the NRC\u2019s Sudan director, described the situation as \u201ccatastrophic,\u201d saying that many displaced people arrive \u201cdisoriented, dehydrated, and injured.\u201d Around 170 unaccompanied children, some as young as three, have been found wandering without family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudan\u2019s Minister of Social Welfare, Salima Ishaq, told Turkey\u2019s Anadolu Agency that RSF fighters killed at least 300 women in El-Fasher within the first two days of the city\u2019s fall. She said many were subjected to sexual violence and torture, calling the route between El-Fasher and Tawila \u201ca road of death.\u201d The government has submitted documentation of these alleged war crimes to the U.N. Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed at least 460 deaths in local hospitals, while aid workers warn the real toll could be far higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At a press conference in Cairo, Sudan\u2019s ambassador Imadeldin Mustafa Adawi accused the RSF of \u201cwar crimes and genocide\u201d and urged the international community to designate the group a terrorist organization. He also reiterated Khartoum\u2019s accusations that the United Arab Emirates has supplied arms to the RSF \u2014 a claim the UAE denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain, UAE diplomat Anwar Gargash declined to address the allegations directly but admitted that backing both RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) and army chief Abdel-Fattah Burhan after their 2021 coup was a \u201ccritical mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fall of El-Fasher \u2014 the last major army stronghold in Darfur \u2014 marks a turning point in Sudan\u2019s 19-month civil war, which has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced over 14 million, according to U.N. estimates. Aid agencies fear the RSF\u2019s victory in Darfur could embolden it to expand its campaign toward central Sudan, as attacks on displaced persons\u2019 camps continue in Kordofan, where 12 civilians, including five children, were reported killed over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aid agencies and Sudanese officials say atrocities are mounting in the western city of El-Fasher after Sudan\u2019s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city from the national army last week, raising fears for tens of thousands trapped inside. 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