{"id":24245,"date":"2024-06-06T22:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=24245"},"modified":"2024-06-06T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:46:58","slug":"sudan-rsf-kills-at-least-100-in-attack-on-al-noora-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/sudan-rsf-kills-at-least-100-in-attack-on-al-noora-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF Kills at Least 100 in Attack on al- Noora Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agencies -Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in Gezira province in Sudan on Wednesday, officials said.
\n\u201cWomen, children, and elderly were among the victims in the attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on Wad al-Noura village in Gezira,\u201d Mini Arko Minawi, the governor of Darfur province, said on X, formerly Twitter.
\nA grassroots group set up to protect residents in Wad Madani, the capital city of Gezira, said late Wednesday on social media that the paramilitary force, which has been fighting the Sudanese army for over a year, used heavy artillery to besiege and attack the village.
\nThe Madani Resistance Committee, which has been threatened and attacked by the RSF in the past, accused the paramilitaries of looting Wad al-Noura in the midst of the attacks which it said started Wednesday morning.
\nThe RSF claimed in December that it had seized control of Wad Madani, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and a haven for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting.
\nThe resistance committee said the RSF invaded the village, displacing residents, including women and children, to other parts of the district of al-Manaqil.
\nThe Sudanese transitional government in a statement on its Telegram channel condemned the attacks and called for the international community to hold the RSF accountable.
\n“These are criminal acts that reflect the systematic behavior of these (RSF) militias in targeting civilians, plundering their property, and forcibly displacing them from their areas,” said the media office for the Transitional Sovereignty Council, which was set up after the ouster of longtime president Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
\nThe RSF alleged on X late Wednesday that the Sudanese military planned to attack its troops in Jabal al-Awliya, in the west of al-Manaqil district, by mobilizing Sudanese armed forces in three bases. The Associated Press couldn’t verify this allegation.
\nThe paramilitary group said it attacked three camps west, north and south of Wad-al Noura, clashing with the Sudanese army.
\n“Our forces will not stand idly by in the face of any movements or gatherings by the enemy and will work to pursue and defeat the enemy,” said the RSF in its statement.
\nMeanwhile, villagers filmed the collection of the dead afterwards and their burial in a mass grave. Reports differ as to the death toll, with some sources saying it exceeded 100 civilians. This image shows approximately 50-55 bodies.
\nIn addition to the killings, the RSF allegedly looted extensively and stole vehicles.
\nWad al-Noura is located on the far western side of Al-Jazira State, near the border with White Nile State. Although the RSF have controlled most of Al-Jazira since last December, the state is large and contains hundreds of villages. Moreover, Wad al-Noura is not near a frontline that has seen active fighting. Therefore, RSF troops may not have visited this village recently, or perhaps not at all.
\nSudanese civil society, human rights activists, and political parties responded with shock at the news of the attack on Wad al-Noura. The Sudanese Congress party called the attack \u201ca real massacre and a heinous crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Agencies -Sudan Events At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in Gezira province in Sudan on Wednesday, officials said. \u201cWomen, children, and elderly were among the victims in the attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on Wad al-Noura village in Gezira,\u201d Mini Arko …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24250,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions\/24250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}