By Black Star News
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A Sudanese human rights group is accusing the country’s military and security officers of killing people by torture and using “execution chambers.”
The Emergency Lawyers organization says it has a list of hundreds of arrests in the country’s capital of Khartoum. Sudan’s army recaptured Khartoum in March, from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
During the current war in Sudan, between the government’s military, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF, the Emergency Lawyers group has reported on atrocities committed by both sides. Tens of thousands have been killed in the last two years.
The fighting is a consequence of the rivalry between two generals: SAF leader Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF leader Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti. Dagalo previously worked under the command of Fattah al-Burhan, in the SAF.
In a social media statement, on X, the Emergency Lawyers says there, has been a “dangerous escalation in violations.” The group reports that arrested detainees’ “fates range from continued detention in inhumane conditions, trials conducted by security agencies that lack the most basic standards of justice, or release in poor health,” and that “In the worst cases, some are found dead after being killed or declared dead as a result of torture.”
Through the duration of this war, the RSF has reportedly tortured and executed their prisoners.
In March, a United Nations’ Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan, found that both belligerents had engaged in “a widespread pattern of arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of detainees” and that the RSF, and Sudan’s military, had perpetrated “rape and other forms of sexual violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, as well as torture and ill-treatment.”
The disastrous war between the RSF paramilitary group and Sudan’s military has led to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis—where some 12 million Sudanese citizens have fled their homes, in the fighting, and who also face famine.
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