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07-11-2025
KHARTOUM: Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers.
The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan’s military for control of the country, killed at least 1,500 people over the past three days as civilians tried to flee the besieged city, the Sudan Doctors Network said on Wednesday. The group, which tracks the country’s civil war, described the situation as “a true genocide”.
“The massacres the world is witnessing today are an extension of what occurred in el-Fasher more than a year and a half ago, when over 14,000 civilians were killed through bombing, starvation, and extrajudicial executions,” the group said.
It said the attacks are being carried out as part of a “deliberate and systematic campaign of killing and extermination”.
The statement comes as new evidence of mass killings in the strategic area has emerged from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which reported that satellite imagery of el-Fasher, taken after the RSF moved in, shows clusters of objects consistent with the size of human bodies, as well as large areas of red discoloration on the ground.
The RSF has been locked in a bloody civil war with Sudan’s army since 2023, in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than 12 million people.
The paramilitary force overran el-Fasher, the army’s last stronghold in Darfur, on Sunday after 17 months of siege.
The Sudanese government said on Wednesday that at least 2,000 people have been killed in the city since then, while aid agencies say they have received credible reports of atrocities, including summary executions, attacks on civilians along escape routes, and house-to-house raids.
Sexual violence, particularly against women and girls, was also reported in the city, they said.
El-Fasher’s fall puts the RSF in near full control of the vast region of Darfur and has raised concerns of another split of Sudan, more than a decade after South Sudan’s creation.
Sudan’s army-aligned government also accused the RSF on Wednesday of attacking civilians in mosques during their recent takeover of the city.
“More than 2,000 civilians were killed during the militia’s invasion of el-Fasher, targeting volunteers in mosques and the Red Crescent,” Mona Nour Al-Daem, a humanitarian aid officer for the Sudanese government, said.
Journalist Hiba Morgan, reporting from Khartoum, said videos on social media taken by the RSF showed fighters “shooting at civilians attempting to flee”.
“The latest and most disturbing video to surface was of the fighters roaming through what has been identified as the Saudi Hospital in the city of el-Fasher, executing patients,” Morgan said.
Survivors who fled the city said at least 500 people had been seeking refuge in the hospital.
Among those killed were health workers, Morgan added.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that more than 460 people were killed at the Saudi Maternity Hospital.
He said the WHO was “appalled and deeply shocked” by the reports.
The Sudan Doctors Network said RSF fighters on Tuesday “cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present in the wards”.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and Jordan have condemned the abuses committed by the RSF in Sudan. (Int’l News Desk)
