Khaberni - The "Washington Post" accused the Rapid Support Forces of detaining thousands of civilians in Al-Fashir including women and children, forcing them under torture to contact their families to demand a financial ransom, confirming that those who could not pay were executed.
Evidence Removal Operations
Nathaniel Raymond, Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health, announced that his team estimates tens of thousands of civilian deaths, confirming that the lab will issue a report next week documenting at least 140 suspected mass grave sites. He affirmed that the "Rapid Support" carries out organized operations to remove evidence.
British Sanctions on the Support
Yesterday, the British government imposed sanctions on 4 leaders of the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, including the second-in-command, accusing them of committing atrocities during the ongoing civil war between the forces and the regular army.
A statement from British Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said: "The sanctions imposed on the leaders of the Rapid Support Forces directly target those whose hands are stained with blood."
She added that "the damning evidence of these heinous crimes, from mass executions and starvation to the systematic and deliberate use of rape as a weapon of war... will not go unpunished."
She confirmed that the atrocities occurring in Sudan are extremely horrifying and constitute a stain on the conscience of the world, and the conclusive evidence of heinous crimes involving mass executions, starvation, and the calculated and systematic use of rape as a weapon of war—cannot, and will not, go unpunished.
Among the Rapid Support Forces officials impacted by the sanctions last Friday is Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, brother of the force commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as "Hemedti". The European Union imposed sanctions on Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo in November.
The sanctions also affected 3 other officials from the Rapid Support Forces, including the commander of the North Darfur region, Major General Jido Hamdan, the commander Tijani Ibrahim Musa, and "Abu Lulu", accused of involvement in the atrocities committed in Al-Fashir, the regional capital.
The Suffering of Displaced People in Al-Obeid
In the meantime, displaced persons in one of the shelters in Al-Obeid, North Kordofan, complained about a severe lack of basic necessities, amid increasing effects of the cold wave on families living inside the tents.
They spoke about the lack of health services in the center and the absence of education for children, appealing for the provision of health centers, improvement of food and water supplies, and the needs for the winter season, as the movement of displacement towards the state that hosts the largest numbers of people fleeing from combat zones continues.
