ACJPS: Militias uses children as human shields

Sudan Events-Talal Mudathir

The African Center for justice and peace Studies (ACJPS), preoccupied with promoting human rights, justice and equality in Sudan, and documenting violations, has charged that the Rapid Support militias have detained sixty-six children and used them hostages in its war against the Sudanese army.
The center has broadcast shocking pictures of children whose movements were restricted for the purpose of using them as human shields.
Also, the center added that it documented an incident in which 51 women and girls were subjected to sexual abuse in the cities of “Garsila” in Wadi Salih locality in Central Darfur state and the city of “Zalingei,” noting that sexual violence is a tool that has become used to spread fear in the war in Sudan.
ACJPS stressed that women’s organizations that document sexual violence there have verified 124 cases of rape as of October 2023, and it is possible that the actual number may reach thousands.
In a press briefing today, Saturday, the African Center (ACJPS) expressed deep concern about the continued targeting of civilians in the war and announced it has documented two separate incidents in which 41 civilians were killed and a number of others were injured in the “Donki Shatta” locality in North Darfur and in Nyala town in South Darfur.
UN organizations and global international bodies have recently revealed shocking numbers of violations by the Rapid Support militia and ethnic cleansing and killing operations taking place on an ethnic basis in the states of Darfur, which the militia recently invaded, as some of them criticized the world’s silence and turning a blind eye to the atrocities and violations of the militia taking place in Sudan.