By Black Star News
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In Sudan, over 1,500 people were possibly slaughtered in the Zamzam displacement camp back in April–according to a report done by the UK’s Guardian Newspaper.
The Guardian report found numerous facts showing that in a 72-hour period the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) engaged in mass executions and abductions, with hundreds of people still unaccounted for.
The war between the Sudanese military and the RSF, which broke out in April 2023, has seen continuous conflicts, causing millions to leave their homes, and leading to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Before now, it was reported that around 400 Black Africans were killed during the assault from April 11 to 14. But a new committee convening to examine the deaths has now “counted” that over 1,500 people were killed. One committee member, Mohammed Sharif, said the final death tally will likely be significantly higher. Sharif informed The Guardian that “Their bodies are lying inside homes, in the fields, on roads.”
One member of the UK’s Darfur Diaspora Association, Abdallah Abugarda, said that around 4,500 members of the association knew someone who was killed. Abugarda said at least 2,000 residents from Zamzam are unaccounted for. “The massacre at Zamzam, home to displaced people for over 20 years, is one of the most heinous crimes in recent global history. Yet no global outrage has followed,” Abugarda said.
Doctors Without Borders deputy head of emergencies, Claire Nicolet, maintained that the massacre singled out “one of the most vulnerable people on earth” and that the survivors have to deal with “widespread looting, sexual violence and other attacks while on the road and appalling living conditions in transit displacement sites.” Many women have been abducted and are unaccounted for.
In July, the International Criminal Court stated that there was “reasonable grounds” to surmise that war crimes and crimes against humanity were being perpetrated in Darfur. In West Darfur’s capital of Geneina, over 100,000 mostly Masalit, and other non-Arabs, are thought to have been slaughtered by the RSF and their allies in a two-month period from mid-April 2023.
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