Khartoum: Rhino – The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday condemned what it described as the massacre of the army’s warplanes today (Friday), in Mellit, North Darfur, where the army’s air strikes killed 15 civilians, including women and children, wounded others, and destroyed dozens of houses.

The Rapid Support Forces added in a statement on Friday: “The atrocities committed by the army and the extremist Islamic movement in the city of Mellit today add to the series of crimes practiced by the old state against the Sudanese people for more than thirty years in flagrant violation of all international conventions and human rights laws, and the bombing of civilians continues the crimes of genocide and forced displacement of the population initiated by the remnants of the former regime in several regions of the country.

In condemning this terrorist attack on innocent and defenseless people in Mellit, we denounce the silence of the international community towards the escalating massacres of the criminal Islamic Movement brigades and put them in the right place in the horrible terrorist operations against the Sudanese peoples.

The statement continued: “These crimes committed by the elements of the former regime and its terrorist brigades against the Sudanese people increase the responsibility of our forces to move forward on a single path, which is to uproot the malignant disease from the body of our country by ending the control of the old state and the Islamic Movement army over our country. The dropping of barrel bombs on the heads of unarmed civilians is consistent with the extension of the scorched earth policy and the annihilation of life in it, which is internationally prohibited according to the principles of international humanitarian law and Geneva Conventions on the protection of civilians in conflict zones.