Horrific RSF renewed massacres in central Sudan Criminality without Borders
Mubarak Mahgoub Musa
In yet another wave of massacres similar to the ones perpetrated against unarmed civilians particularly in Wad al-Noura in Al jazira, in June 2024, in which dozens innocent civilians were killed or wounded, again since the dawn of last Friday and according to sources on the ground, a force from RSF militia has started storming the village of Al-Sareha, which belongs to the Kamlin locality, north of Al-Jazira State and others.
The erected their automatic weapons a at the top of high buildings and started shooting indiscriminately at the unarmed civilians in the said villages. Scores and perhaps hundreds of defenseless civilians including women and children were killed or injured, amidst total absence of health care in the area.
The escalation of militia criminality and massive violations against civilians would not have continued without the international and regional silence that serves as a blank check for the militia.. It’s a conspiracy of silence.
World conscience must pay attention, that the areas to the east of Al Jazira State in central Sudan, continued to be subjected to widespread and violent retaliatory attacks by the militia, resulting in significant loss and serious civilian casualties, amid shocking reports of identity-based mass killings, no less horrific and reminiscent of the 50 days continued crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by this apartheid militia in the western Sudan city of El Geneina, the horror of which reached the burial of defenseless civilians alive.
The massacres and ethic cleansing in Al Genina was by all accounts, a deliberate and systematic crime documented by Human Rights Watch in its comprehensive 186-page report in May 2024, in which it affirmed that the targeting of Masalit and other non-Arab communities in Darfur, was clearly aimed at prompting them to leave the region permanently in an explicit form of ethnic cleansing.
Regardless of the HRW,s report above, perhapse the most serious, pertinent and unequivocal statement to that effect was made by the very United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser, on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Ndreto, who clearly indicated that civilians who are currently targeted in Darfur, are attacked and killed because of their skin color, race and identity, with widespread hate speech and direct incitement to violence.
The most fitting question to ask here; how much more evidence, would international institutions need to ascertain and move to stop such terrorist and barbaric project of the RSF in Sudan?
It is nothing but the state of international complacency and unwarranted reluctance to take a decisive deterring position against the RSF, which encourages the militia to pursue its apartheid project in different parts of the Sudan with enviable impunity and cold blood, entails inter alia, forced relocation of populations and even eliminating them when necessary.
According to some analyists, the current surge in these waves of attacks perhaps come in retaliation and connection with the announcement made by the rebellion’s field commander, Abu Aqila Kikal, of his defection from the insurgency and his accession to the armed forces, which should have onstituted a strong blow to the RSF.
In corollary the terrorist militia embarked on reprisals against innocent and unarmed citizens in the region, exercising the worst violations of collective punishment; killings, torture, rape, forced displacement and looting of property, to name a few.
In the backdrop of the ongoing carnage and horrific attacks currently perpetrated in Al Gazira State, which result in the loss of tens of thousands of innocent lives lost and families shattered,the international community is long awaited
to correct its shy positions; stop treating this RSF militia as a fait accompli, redefining it as a terrorist group and likewise, acting without fail, to punish its regional collaborators and financiers, whether through the provision of mercenaries, political, financial or logistical cover.
There should be no mistake, these new waves of atrocities, will not break the will and pride of the Sudanese people and will not succeed in shredding their will and unity in lining up firmly behind their armed forces, the symbol of their sovereignty and unity.
