Prisoners and Detainees…in Militia Prisons

What’s Behind the News?

Mohamed Wadaa

Reuters: Evidence that Rapid Support RSF detained about 5,000 people, including (3,500) civilians

Reuters Among the detainees are women and people of different nationalities*
Al Jazeera – Net: The Rapid Support Forces RSF target civilians on the basis of their ethnic affiliation.
Doctors Without Borders: People were shot dead while trying to flee El Geneina
Journalists Syndicate: Rapid Support Forces RSF use radio and TV buildings as detention centres
The Journalists Syndicate is required to explain its silence regarding information – identical – that it has had for months about the use of the Rapid Support Forces RSF as detainees
The union did not dare to condemn the occupation of the radio and TV buildings, and of course it cannot condemn their use as detention centers,
Reuters reported that Sudanese human rights organizations have evidence that the Rapid Support Forces RSF detained about 5,000 people, including (3,500) civilians, in inhumane conditions in the capital, Khartoum.
These organizations added that among the detained civilians were women and people of foreign nationalities, and affirmed that It can submit documents to the United Nations UN documenting cases of killing under torture and the lack of basic necessities of life in detention conditions
In the same context, the Norwegian-based Sudanese Human Rights Activists Organization HRAO said – in a statement, a copy of which was received by Al Jazeera Net – that the Rapid Support Forces RSF and the militias loyal to them target civilians on the basis of their racial and ethnic affiliations, particularly in the city of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur.
The organization stated that crimes of sexual violence, including Mass rape and repeated perpetration and forced detention, with widespread burning of homes, were also reported by Doctors Without Borders, saying that people were shot dead while trying to flee from El Geneina,
While the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate affirmed its interest in the radio and TV archives, rather than the lives of thousands of prisoners detained in the radio and TV buildings, it affirmed that the Rapid Support Forces RSF had presented months ago – according to identical testimonies from eyewitnesses who were detained in those buildings – that the Rapid Support Forces RSF were using the buildings. Radio and TV are detainees, and regardless of the occasion of this statement, as (the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate affirmed that it had received information indicating that the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces SAF and the Rapid Support Forces RSF was approaching the radio and
TV buildings, that increases the risk of destroying or damaging an approaching archive.
It is a hundred years old, and represents a political, cultural, and social legacy for the entire Sudanese nation.
However, the union is required to explain its silence regarding information – identical – that it has had for months about the use of the Rapid Support Forces RSF as detainees.
The union did not dare to condemn the occupation of the radio and TV buildings. Of course, it could not condemn their use as detainees.
Horrific reports about the condition of detainees and frightening numbers about their numbers, and those who were killed under torture, hunger, and lack of health care, and reports and testimonies about the secret prisons of the Rapid Support RSF Militia in Soba, the Sports City, the camp grounds, the International University of Africa, and the Presidency of the Operations and Criminal Evidence Authority, in addition to To detention centers attached to all the militia headquarters in Kafouri, Al-Mujahideen, Radio and TV , addition to detention centers in Old Omdurman and Al-Nakhil.
The numbers circulated are only for detainees in the radio and TV buildings, and there are no numbers for detainees in other detention centers.
What is happening in these detention centers represents a crime against humanity and a war crime in accordance with international human rights law, the Geneva Convention on Prisoners’ Affairs, and the rights of civilians in conflict areas, as The law criminalizes the arrest, disappearance, detention, or use of civilians and civilians from the regular forces as human shields.
The presence of thousands of civilian detainees in the prisons of the Rapid Support RSF Militia places the duty of liberating them and saving them from death at the top of the priorities of the armed forces SAF and the context of their military operations, just as it is the duty of every honorable patriot to raise his voice to expose and reveal this heinous crime as it should.
The Journalists Syndicate has been silent for a long time. And you spoke in disbelief,
February 11, 2024 AD