The #Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group tracking the #war, said fighters from the Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday “cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, & anyone else present in the wards.”

Sudanese residents & aid workers revealed harrowing details of atrocities by the #RSF, fighting since 2023 to take over Africa’s third largest nation, after they seized the army’s last stronghold in #Darfur after over 500 days of siege.

The #UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled #elFasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.

UN #refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic & politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, & others shot as they tried to escape.

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Witnesses told the AP that #RSF fighters—on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles—went from house to house, beating & shooting people, including women & children. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, witnesses said.

“It was a like a killing field,” Tajal-Rahman, a man in his 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. “Bodies everywhere & people bleeding & no one to help them.”

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Both Amena and Tajal-Rahman said that #RSF fighters tortured & beat the detainees & shot at least 4 people Monday who later died of wounds. They also sexually assaulted women & girls, they said.

Giulia Chiopris, a pediatrician at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical group in Tawila, said they received many patients since Oct 18, suffering from injuries related to bombing or gunshots.

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She said that the hospital also received a high number of #malnourished #children — many of them unaccompanied or orphaned — who were also severely dehydrated during the road journey from #elFasher.

“We are seeing a lot a lot of cases of #trauma related to the last bombing & a huge number of orphans.”

She recalled receiving 3 siblings—the younger 40 days old & the older 4 years—Monday night, whose family were killed in the city. They were brought to the hospital by strangers, she said.

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In a report late Tuesday, the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) said that #RSF fighters continued to carry out #MassKillings since they took over #elFasher.

The report, which relied on satellite imagery from Airbus, said it corroborated alleged #executions & mass killing by the RSF around the Saudi Hospital, & at a detention center at the former Children’s Hospital in the eastern part of the city.

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The HRL also said that “systematic killings” took place in the vicinity of the eastern wall, which the #RSF built outside the city earlier this year.

It also reported what it said were targeted attacks by the RSF on #health facilities, #HealthWorkers, patients & #HumanitarianAid workers, which it said amount to #WarCrimes.

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“An unfathomable horror,” Simon Mane, a national director for the World Vision aid group, said. “Children are not just dying; they are being brutally robbed of their very existence, their hopes & futures cruelly wiped away. Their fate is a devastating moral failure.”
#Aid groups said hundreds were killed & hundreds detained since the #RSF overran the city, but a death toll has been difficult to determine given a near communication blackout.

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