Rhino: Follow-up – The Transitional Peace Government expressed its deep concern over the demolition of homes belonging to more than 200 families in the village of “Tayba al-Sheikh Abdulbaqi” in Al-Jazirah State, which resulted in severe material and psychological harm and the displacement of a large number of families. The incident constituted a flagrant violation of human rights and the principle of equal citizenship.

The government added in a statement today:(Over the past few months, the Transitional Peace Government has been monitoring the Port Sudan authorities continued targeting of the homes and property of citizens from specific social groups through ongoing attacks and demolitions that have affected their homes, lands, and markets. These operations were carried out under the supervision of the Port Sudan authorities, led by war criminal Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, through the governor of Al-Jazirah, the Land Authority, intelligence, the police, and security forces, targeting citizens of West Sudanese origin on the basis of ethnicity and regional affiliation).

The statement read:(The Government of Peace condemns this systematic targeting, which constitutes a manipulation of citizenship and an abuse of power to perpetuate injustice and undermine peaceful coexistence. It is an extension of the killings, massacres, house burnings, liquidations, looting, and forced displacement committed by the Islamic Movement’s army and its militias, led by al-Burhan, in January 2025 against the communities of al-Kanabi and South Sudan upon their entry into and rampage through Wad Madani and al-Jazirah).

The statement continued: (These crimes are an extension of the “Strange Faces Law,” through which the Port Sudan authorities are targeting citizens of Kordofan, Darfur, and New Funj, as well as the outskirts of Khartoum by demolishing their homes in Bahri, East Nile, South Khartoum in May, Soba al-Ardi, and in Omdurman and Ombada, Dar al-Salam, and in Umm al-Qura in the city of Bahri).

The Transitional Peace Government affirmed that these operations are being carried out under the official cover of the Port Sudan authorities, thereby transforming the law from a means of protecting rights into a tool for harming and displacing citizens.

The statement added:(In light of this ordeal imposed on the Sudanese people by the terrorist Islamic Movement gang, the Transitional Peace Government calls on all social and religious groups in the region to remain fully vigilant and deny any opportunity to those who lie in wait, seeking to advance malicious agendas in favor of the Port Sudan gang—which has persistently sought to tear apart the Sudanese social fabric—and urges them to draw upon their long and distinguished history of peaceful coexistence and social solidarity).

The Transitional Government of Peace called on national and international human rights organizations to monitor and track the violations suffered by targeted communities in Al-Jazirah and other areas under army control, emphasizing that these practices will not go unpunished.