Khartoum: Rhino – The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) condemned on Sunday the army’s bombing of residential neighborhoods in Bileil locality in South Darfur state, which resulted in the death and injury of civilians. Shocking videos circulated on social media on Saturday, showing the bodies and body parts of civilians killed in the attack.
The RSF added in a statement on Sunday: “Al Burhan militia, backed by the invaders’ cross-border air force, committed new massacres and genocide, killing hundreds of innocent civilians, following barbaric attacks targeting residential neighborhoods in the city of Nyala, and the treacherous air force launched an attack on a camp for displaced people in Bleil locality in South Darfur state, and more than 120 people fell as a result of the barbaric aggression, most of them women, children and the elderly, in addition to hundreds of wounded, most of whom are affected by severe injuries ‘being counted’).
The statement continued: “Our forces condemn the suspicious silence of organizations and advocates of human rights in the face of repeated air crimes, and draw the attention of the international media to the attacks on Nyala and Bilil camp, and before that the targeting of displaced persons in the city of Kuma in North Darfur, which can only be described as ‘horrific genocidal massacres’, and the bodies of the victims are still scattered in the streets and houses amid the total destruction of institutions and infrastructures.
The statement continued: “The use of barrel bombs and weapons of destruction by the air force in densely populated areas confirms that the Port Sudan gang continues its selective extermination scheme against the peoples of the margins without regard for human rights violations and innocent lives. Our forces emphasize that the targeting of civilians constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, as there are no military targets.
The RSF warned of the consequences of targeting civilians on ethnic and regional grounds, and the consequent stirring of hatred and tensions between Sudanese communities, calling on the international community to take urgent action to condemn what it described as “criminal acts” and assume its responsibilities, “as a basic step to protect civilians from indiscriminate attacks that target their lives and sources of livelihood.” The RSF called on international human rights organizations, including the United Nations, to take legal and moral responsibility for these crimes, and to work to bring those responsible to justice.
She called on international human rights organizations, including the United Nations, to assume their legal and moral responsibilities towards these crimes, to work to bring those responsible to justice, and to form an international committee to investigate the crimes of genocide through the warplanes of the Burhan militia in Darfur, stressing their commitment to moving forward, “until the country is rid of the domination of the old state and the terrorist Islamic movement, and to rebuild the Sudanese state on new and just foundations”.
