Survivors fleeing Sudan’s el-Fasher recount terror, bodies in streets

As aid workers claim only a small percentage of the besieged city’s residents have managed to escape, residents of the western city of El-Fasher in wartorn Sudan are describing horrific scenes of violence at the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Since seizing El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, on Sunday, the RSF has killed at least 1,500 people, including at least 460 in a hospital as a result of a widely condemned massacre.

More than 36, 000 people have reportedly fled on foot to Tawila, a town that is 70 kilometers (43 miles) west of San Diego, and has already taken shelter from about 650, 000 displaced people.

In front of her, seven RSF fighters searched her home, killed her 16-year-old son, and said Hayat, a mother of five children, via satellite phone.

We saw numerous dead bodies lying on the ground and wounded people being left alone in the open because their families couldn’t transport them, she said as she fled with neighbors.

Hussein, a second survivor, was shot while being transported to Tawila by a family using a donkey cart to transport their mother.

He claimed that “there is no one to bury the dead bodies in the streets of El-Fasher.” Even if we only have the clothes we were wearing, we’re grateful we made it here.

Another displaced person from El-Fasher, Aisha Ismael, reported to The Associated Press that drones and other attacks were occurring frequently. If we didn’t hide in the homes, they would fire back at us all night and day. We scurried outside the homes at three in the morning until we arrived in Hillat Alsheth, a northern Darfur region, where we were looted. I arrived barefoot, and even my shoes were taken; they left us with nothing.

However, Tawila’s aid workers claim they are still holding out for the majority of El-Fasher’s alleged evacuees.

The Norwegian Refugee Council, which oversees the Tawila camp, has a very small population of people who made it to Tawila, according to Mathilde Vu, the camp’s advocacy manager.

The others are where? “she said”. That illustrates the journey’s horrifying horror.

According to UN Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric, UN Secretary-General moved to approve a $ 20 million donation to Sudan from the Central Emergency Response Fund on Wednesday to increase the scale of Darfur’s response efforts.

More than 450 people were killed at Saudi Hospital, where patients, health workers, and residents had sought refuge, the UN, according to Dujarric, who added.

Elderly people, the wounded, and those with disabilities remained “stranded and unable to flee the area,” he claimed.

The massacre of civilians was “most devastating because we in civil society have been warning the international community about the atrocity risks for the civilian population of North Darfur,” according to Shayna Lewis, a specialist in Sudan.

An RSF siege had left hundreds of thousands of people trapped inside without food or essentials for 18 months prior to Sudan’s army withdrew from the city.