Khartoum: Rhino – The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) denounced on Thursday that the army’s warplanes carried out 27 air raids in a week, causing great destruction to infrastructure and public and private facilities, including ‘residential neighborhoods, hospitals, markets, water stations, schools, bridges, houses of worship, and livestock barns.’
The RSF added in a statement on Thursday: ‘Since the arrival of the RSF delegation to Geneva in response to the call for talks aimed at stopping hostilities and facilitating the delivery of aid to those in need under international and regional auspices, and for a whole week after the start of the round, we witnessed the intensification of the army warplanes’ raids on populated areas, committing heinous crimes that claimed the lives of hundreds of our people, and the indiscriminate bombing caused great destruction in infrastructure, public and private facilities.
The statement provided a preliminary statistic of the victims of the attack, which it described as treacherous, and said that it was a systematic bombing, ordered by the leaders of the army and the Islamic Movement.
The statistics are as follows
Thursday, 15 August, the aircraft bombed the central market in Khartoum, killing more than 80 people, all civilians; Bika area in Gezira state, killing 7 people; Kuma hospital in North Darfur, killing 6 people and destroying patient wards; Morni in Central Darfur; Kabkabiya in North Darfur, killing 4 people; El Fasher in North Darfur, killing 12 people; Babanusa in West Kordofan; and El Geneina in West Darfur.
On Friday 16 August, the aircraft targeted the Um Benin area and the city of Karakoj in Sennar state, killing 18 people, and also bombed Jebel Amer in North Darfur state, killing 3 people, and the northern neighborhoods of El Fasher city, killing 16 people, and completely destroying the Wad Madani land port.
On Saturday 17 August, the warplanes carried out raids on Al Kuma, North Darfur, killing 9 people, Jebel Amer, North Darfur, killing 6 people, Kandahar market in Omdurman, killing more than 27 people, Karrour market in Omdurman, killing between 7 and 10 people, and bombed the 40th lane of Ombada, west of Omdurman, killing 2 people.
On Sunday, 18 August, the bombing was renewed in El Fasher, killing 10 people, as well as neighborhoods in the east of the capital Khartoum.
On Monday, 19 August, the aircraft bombed a market and water station in Mellit, North Darfur, and bombed El Fasher, killing 9 people.
On Tuesday, 20 August, the aircraft targeted a hospital, market, police station and school in Al Diein, East Darfur, killing 13 people, and launched another strike on Al Twisha, North Darfur, killing 7 people, and in Al Hasahisa, Gezira State, 18 people were killed by aerial bombardment, and Al Fasher, North Darfur, 14 people were killed.
The statement said: ‘The continuation of crimes against unarmed citizens and the violation of their rights made it necessary for our forces to choose the path of confrontation to rid our people of the domination of the terrorist Islamic movement that controls the decision of the Sudanese Armed Forces through terrified generals who owe absolute loyalty to the terrorist organization, which is trying to return to power through the gates of the military and security services.
The RSF renewed its call on the international community, human rights organizations and those concerned with humanitarian affairs to condemn what it described as barbaric behavior and address their moral and legal responsibilities towards war crimes and crimes against humanity ‘which has been a recurring act practiced by the terrorists since they started the war on 15 April 2023.’
‘We affirm that our forces are determined to end the power of this corrupt gang that has bequeathed our country poverty and failure, and we know that the right way to address our country’s crisis lies in liberating the army and distancing it from politics,’ it added.
