At least 89 have been killed in a cluster of villages in the Sudanese city of Omdurman by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) a Sudanese human rights organization has said.
Many more were injured in the attack that saw the paramilitary group carrying out random artillery shelling and direct gunfire.
The Emergency Lawyer’s Association has accused the RSF of violating “human rights and international law,” the statement added that its forces engaged in widespread looting of homes and shops, arrested several young men from the villages “and forced them at gunpoint to transport the looted goods.”
Many have fled to the Jabal Awlia area, in hopes of finding safety.
Sudan is already in the grips of the largest displacement crisis, to date, an estimated 8.8 million people have been forced from their homes to camps and other locations within Sudan; 3.5 million more have fled across borders, according to the UN.
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) says its war with the army is not over despite its withdrawal from the capital, Khartoum.
In a message on social media on Sunday, the paramilitary group’s commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo described it as a tactical repositioning.
The RSF leader, who is also known as Hemedti, said his forces would return to the city “stronger, more powerful, and victorious”.
It was his first comments since the group was pushed back from most part of Khartoum by the Sudanese Armed Forces last week.
