""The sick and injured were executed in cold blood," the Sudanese Coordination of Resistance Committees, a nongovernmental organization, stated two days after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, Sudan. According to the NGO, RSF fighters had either killed everyone or left them to die in the city's Al Saudi Hospital."
"Reports from the ground remain difficult to obtain as the RSF has turned off satellite communication for the population. A woman who managed to flee el-Fasher told DW on Wednesday that "the RSF took everything we owned, they even searched our underwear and left us with nothing no money, no phones." "They conducted military tests on people, and if they discovered that someone had any knowledge of or connection to military matters, they were immediately executed," she said."
Rapid Support Forces seized el-Fasher, executing sick and injured and leaving corpses at Al Saudi Hospital. Satellite imagery from Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab shows clusters consistent with human bodies and reddish ground discoloration outside hospitals. Multiple sources report up to 2,000 civilians killed over three days. RSF forces turned off satellite communications, hindering reporting. Survivors report looting, stripping belongings, confiscation of phones and money, and summary executions after "military tests" to identify anyone with military knowledge. The conflict began in April 2023 between SAF and RSF over militia integration; the violence has produced the world's largest humanitarian and displacement crisis.
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