New Satellite Images Suggest Mass Killings Persist in Sudan’s El-Fasher

[Starmix]

According to the report, new satellite imagery suggests that mass killings are likely continuing in and around the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, Yale researchers said, days after it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

It said that since the city’s fall, reports have emerged of summary executions, sexual violence, attacks on aid workers, looting, and abductions, while communications remain largely cut off. It is also speculated that much of the population may be dead.



The report indicated that mass killing is continuing and is clearly visible. Survivors from El-Fasher who reached the nearby town of Tawila have told AFP of mass killings, children shot before their parents, and civilians beaten and robbed as they fled.

The UN said more than 65,000 people have fled El-Fasher but tens of thousands remain trapped. Around 260,000 people were in the city before the RSF’s final assault.

El-Fasher’s capture gives the RSF full control over all five state capitals in Darfur, effectively splitting Sudan along an east-west axis, with the army controlling the north, east, and center.

Source: The Defense Force

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[gwolf666]

The situation in El-Fasher and throughout Darfur is truly heartbreaking and demonstrates the brutality of armed conflict in the region. Evidence of massacres, summary executions, and sexual violence reveals a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions. Most concerning is that the civilian population continues to be the primary victims, caught in the crossfire with very little humanitarian aid reaching those who need it most. The capture of El-Fasher by paramilitary forces represents a strategic advance, but it also intensifies the violence and suffering in an already devastated region. It is crucial that the international community step up its efforts to halt this barbarity and protect the victims. We cannot allow indifference to continue fueling this tragedy. The priority must be an immediate cessation of violence and ensuring urgent humanitarian aid for those still trapped in the conflict.