{"id":24464,"date":"2024-06-08T21:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=24464"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:35:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T18:35:37","slug":"unimaginable-trauma-haunts-sudans-displaced-while-famine-threaten-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/08\/unimaginable-trauma-haunts-sudans-displaced-while-famine-threaten-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unimaginable Trauma\u2019 Haunts Sudan\u2019s Displaced while Famine Threaten Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Horrific violence and the risk of famine continue to stalk the people of Sudan, UN humanitarians warned, as they echoed condemnation by UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres of an attack on a village south of Khartoum two days ago that is now believed to have left more than 100 dead.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack reportedly carried out on 5 June by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Wad Al-Noura village, Jazira state, which is said to have killed over 100 people,\u201d his Spokesperson said in a statement overnight, which also underscored \u201cthe immense suffering of the Sudanese population as a result of the continued hostilities\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is high time for all parties to silence their guns across Sudan and commit to a path towards sustainable peace for the Sudanese people.\u201d<br \/>\nBriefing journalists in Geneva from Port Sudan, Mohamed Refaat, the UN migration agency (IOM)\u2019s chief of mission in the country, highlighted \u201ctruly horrifying reports of violent attacks and casualties\u201d in the village of Wad Al-Noura in Aj Jazirah state.<br \/>\nHis comments came as unconfirmed video images showed dozens of bodies laid out for burial in the village following a reported assault by heavily armed RSF fighters, some 112 kilometres (70 miles) from the capital.<br \/>\nAt least 35 children were believed to be among the dead, drawing strong condemnation from UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Catherine Russell.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is yet another grim reminder of how the children of Sudan are paying the price for the brutal violence,\u201d she said in a statement late Thursday. \u201cOver the past year, thousands of children have been killed and injured. Children have been recruited, abducted and subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence. Over five million children have been forced from their homes.<br \/>\nThe UN\u2019s top human rights official also expressed his shock upon learning of the killings in Wad Al-Noura, maintaining that the RSF had \u201cused weapons with wide-area effects, including artillery shells, during the attack\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cThese killings add to my existing, serious concerns about the adherence to the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution under international humanitarian law by those involved in the fighting,\u201d said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk.<br \/>\n\u201cThose responsible for unlawful killings must be held accountable. How many more Sudanese civilians must die before the parties to the conflict stop the fighting?\u201d<br \/>\nAt another flashpoint of the conflict, in North Darfur\u2019s capital El Fasher in Sudan\u2019s west, some 800,000 civilians are still in danger, amid intensified fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the rival RSF.<br \/>\nThe location remains \u201cinaccessible\u201d to the UN either cross-line or cross-border, Mr. Refaat said.<br \/>\nInternal displacement in Sudan since the start of the conflict on 15 April last year has almost reached the 10 million mark, IOM\u2019s Mr. Refaat noted, with food insecurity an increasing factor in people\u2019s decision to flee. Some 18 million people in the country are acutely hungry while 3.6 million children are acutely malnourished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Horrific violence and the risk of famine continue to stalk the people of Sudan, UN humanitarians warned, as they echoed condemnation by UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres of an attack on a village south of Khartoum two days ago that is now believed to have left more than 100 dead. \u201cThe Secretary-General strongly condemns the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24464","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\/24464","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=24464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24469,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24464\/revisions\/24469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}