The Militia Assassinates Dozens in North Kordofan
Sudan Events – Agencies
The attacks carried out by the Rapid Support militia (RSF) on the villages of the Jabal Al-Dayer area of Al-Rahad locality in North Kordofan state caused the death of dozens of people and the displacement of thousands of others from their homes.
According to Darfur 24, eyewitnesses said that the attacks launched by the RSF militia on February 14 and 21, on the villages of Jabal al-Dayer, claimed the lives of 41 citizens.
They pointed out that it carried out new attacks on April 17 for three consecutive days, on the village of Sidr and on the Taiba area east of Jabal Al-Dayer, which left 23 people dead.
Witnesses estimated that at least 65,000 citizens were displaced from the villages of Jabal Al-Dayer to the top of the mountain and Abu Karshula and Al-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, on foot.
Witnesses said that the RSF attacks began harassing civilians during their movements to local markets, where they set up checkpoints that imposed taxes on the transit of goods between the markets at times and at other times plundered them.
A citizen told Darfur 24 that the militia destroyed drinking water sources (pumps), while unarmed civilians were taking shelter in the mountains without water.
He stressed that the militia used all types of weapons against civilians, looted their property, burned villages, and mutilated bodies. It also demanded a ransom amounting to 17 million pounds to return three citizens it had kidnapped.
The Democratic Alliance for Social Justice confirmed that RSF carried out a “brutal and bloody attack on unarmed civilians in the Jabal Al-Dayer area on April 17, 18, and 19.”
He said that these attacks resulted in the death of more than 40 citizens, varying in age from young people to the elderly, from the areas of “Kala, Qardud Al-Nur, Talbas, Sidra, Al-Rusairis, Farik Sabah, Al-Toumat, Al-Salam neighborhood, Al-Rahad, Dawka Al-Hujayrat, Al-Dampir, and Hillat Dedan.” , Farla, Al-Dara Al-Kabira and Umm Taqza.”
He continued: “In the Sidra area, on April 17, the militia killed 18 citizens from the villages of Al-Hujairat, Al-Dampir, Goz Bishara, Kandker, Fareeq Sabah, Al-Ain Al-Dabab, Ardiba, Kamla and Farla.”
The coalition stressed that these attacks were accompanied by the looting of citizens’ property, including cows, sheep, and markets, in addition to the kidnapping of citizens, taking them to unknown places, and forcibly displacing them.
