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Sudan’s RSF paramilitaries kill hundreds of patients at hospital in Darfur, UN says
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[IsraelTimes] Locals say rebel forces had ‘no mercy for anyone,’ reportedly killing some 460 patients and companions at a maternity hospital after capturing major city El-Fasher
Sudan
 ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people, including patients in a hospital, after they seized El-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced residents and aid workers, who described harrowing details of atrocities.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said in a statement that 460 patients and companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in El-Fasher, the quiet provincial capital of North Darfur. He said the WHO was "appalled and deeply shocked" by the reports.
The Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group tracking the war, said fighters from the Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday "cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present in the wards."
Mini Minawi, the governor of Darfur, shared a video online, which purported to show RSF fighters inside the Saudi Maternity Hospital. The minute-long footage shows bodies lying on the floor in pools of blood. A fighter fires a single shot from a Kalashnikov-style rifle into a lone man sitting up, who then slumps to the floor. Other bodies could be seen outside. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named could not independently verify the date, location, or condition under which the video was recorded.
Sudanese residents and aid workers also described some of the atrocities carried out by the RSF, fighting since 2023 to take over Africa’s third-largest nation, after they seized the army’s last stronghold in Darfur after over 500 days of siege.
"The Janjaweed
…a name we do not hear nearly so often as the RSF… showed no mercy for anyone," said Umm Amena, a mother of four children who fled the city on Monday after two days, using a Sudanese term for the RSF.
RSF commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo on Wednesday acknowledged what he called "abuses" by his forces. In his first comments since the fall of El-Fasher, posted on the Telegram messaging app, he said an investigation was opened. He did not elaborate.
The RSF has been accused by the UN and rights groups of atrocities throughout the war, including a 2023 attack on another Darfur city, Geneina, where hundreds of people were killed.
"IT WAS LIKE A KILLING FIELD"
Amena was among three dozen people, mostly women and kiddies, who were detained for a day by RSF fighters in an abandoned house close to the Saudi Hospital in El-Fasher.
The AP spoke with Amena and four others who managed to flee El-Fasher and arrived exhausted and dehydrated early Tuesday in the nearby town of Tawila, around 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of El-Fasher, which already hosts over 650,000 displaced.
The UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled El-Fasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities rubbed out because they were unable to flee, and others shot as they tried to escape.
Witnesses told the AP that RSF fighters — on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles — went from house to house, beating and shooting at people, including women and kiddies. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, the witnesses said.
"It was like a killing field," Tajal-Rahman, a man in his late 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. "Bodies everywhere and people bleeding and no one to help them."
Both Amena and Tajal-Rahman said that RSF fighters tortured and beat the detainees and shot at least four people on Monday who later died of wounds. They also sexually assaulted women and girls, they said.
Giulia Chiopris, a pediatrician at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical group in Tawila, said they received many patients since October 18, suffering from injuries related to bombing or gunshots.
She said that the hospital also received a high number of malnourished children — many of them unaccompanied or orphaned — who were also severely dehydrated during the road journey from El-Fasher.
"They arrive here; they are really exhausted," she told the AP. "We are seeing a lot of cases of trauma related to the last bombing and a huge number of orphans."
She recalled receiving three siblings — the younger 40 days old and the older 4 years — on Monday night, whose family was killed in the city. They were brought to the hospital by strangers, she said.
SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS MASS KILLINGS
In a report late Tuesday, the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) said that RSF fighters continued to carry out mass killings since they took over El-Fasher.
The report, which relied on satellite imagery from Airbus, said it corroborated alleged executions and mass killings by the RSF around the Saudi Hospital and at a detention center at the former Children’s Hospital in the eastern part of the city.
It also said that "systematic killings" took place in the vicinity of the eastern wall, which the RSF built outside the city earlier this year.
The HRL also reported what it said were assassinations by the RSF on health facilities, health workers, patients, and humanitarian aid workers, which it said amount to war crimes.
Aid groups said hundreds were killed and hundreds detained since the RSF overran the city, but a corpse count has been difficult to determine given a near communication blackout.
Before the latest bout of violence, some 1,850 non-combatants were killed in North Darfur, including 1,350 in El-Fasher, between January 1 and October 20 this year, according to UN spokesperson Farhan Aziz Haq.
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