Report – Azmi Abdel Razek
Amidst the raging flames and violent screams, Osman, a ten-year-old boy, was struggling to make his way through the bodies strewn across the village of Al-Suhaira, searching for his mother who had slipped away after losing her arm. He began to crawl little by little towards the alley of their home to avoid the senseless death. The atmosphere was bloody and mournful, and the black smoke covered the entire village. The child Osman would later be shocked to find that his father had been killed and his body thrown into the courtyard he used to cultivate every year, and that his mother was missing, while this tragic day reminded him of his grandmother’s tales of jihadist crimes.
Bloody, sad tales
In the last message written by Omar Hamad, one of the sons of Al-Sireh: “We have counted two more martyrs from the family in the Al-Sireh massacre, bringing the number of family martyrs to 13.” This number pertains to just one family in a village among hundreds of villages that the militia invaded over the past week, including Azraq, Al-Sireh, Al-Junayd, and Al-Hilaliya. The Janjaweed leaders have also threatened the people of Selim village in the locality of Al-Hasaheisa with the same fate, as well as Takina, where the militia killed 18 souls last May.
Revenge campaigns east of the Gazira
Fatima, who managed to reach Halfa after three days, said, “They were killing men and burning houses. I saw bodies in the streets, many bodies. I didn’t count them; I was scared. There were wounded people asking for help, and I saw some soldiers climbing onto the rooftops and sniping anyone who moved. I don’t know how I survived; divine providence saved me.”
Displacement into the unknown
It is important to note that most of those who were displaced from Tamboul and Rufa’a headed to New Halfa, some of whom died on the way, and others arrived in a state of extreme exhaustion and illness, including elderly people whose feet were swollen from walking. By Tuesday morning, about 4,000 families, equivalent to around 30,000 displaced people from the eastern Gazira, had reached New Halfa.
Year of the Harvest of Souls
In addition, the “Siyaha” network, which is dedicated to documenting the crimes of the terrorist militia, confirmed the occurrence of suicides in the Al-Jazeera state, involving women who were raped and tortured by the Rapid Support Forces gangs. The network revealed the killing of a thousand citizens in the Al-Jazeera and Sennar states by the weapons of these gangs within a single week. It also indicated that many reports of sexual violations in several villages, carried out by the terrorist Rapid Support Forces gangs, have reached its inbox. The Siyaha network noted that the number of martyrs has exceeded the statistics provided by some platforms and activists, especially since many martyrs have not been identified or buried, and their bodies remain lying on the roads and in the open in many cities and villages that were invaded by the terrorist gangs.
The tragedy of Al-Jazira State continues, amidst a near year-long disruption of the internet and communication networks, which has rather become a year of harvesting lives instead of crops. The land has soaked up blood, and the grass has mingled with human entrails. This year, the project lands cannot produce enough cotton to cover the need for shrouds.
Quoted from the “Al-Muhaqiq” news site
