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Sudan’s War: Massacres Persist as Fighting Deepens Humanitarian Crisis
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On May 22, the U.S. sanctions imposed on Sudan’s coup government for using chemical weapons brought the country’s situation back onto the world stage. The two-year-long conflict in Sudan has left tens of thousands of civilians dead, in abuses that international and rights organizations have classified as war crimes—and have called for those responsible to be held to account.
In the latest developments, the Sudanese newspaper Idraak reported, citing sources in the Salaha area south of Omdurman, that “widespread violations” were committed against citizens “of Kordofan and Darfur origin, as well as South Sudanese nationals,” by the Sudanese army and allied militias. The paper says it “obtained images documenting the abuses and massacres perpetrated by the army and its allies against civilians, under the accusation of collaborating with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).” It adds that soldiers from the regular army and from the Bara’a ibn Malik brigades “raided homes to seize men and young men,” before taking them to “unknown locations.”
A resident identified only as H.S., who lives in Jadin Block 11, told the paper that his 23-year-old son “was taken by an armed military unit that stormed the house, to an unknown destination.” He stressed that his son “has no ties to the RSF,” adding: “He was my only caregiver, since I suffer from a spinal‐disc illness and cannot travel during the war.”
Human rights and justice organizations have called for an international fact-finding committee to investigate these crimes and abuses allegedly carried out under the pretext of “collaboration.”
Hundreds Killed in Sennar
Meanwhile, Malik al-Hasan Aborouf, a chief of the Rufa’a tribe, said that the Sudanese army committed gruesome massacres in southern Sennar state, killing hundreds of civilians and imprisoning dozens—alleging they were RSF supporters—in the towns of Dinder and Suki. He spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, stating that “the Sudanese army killed more than 460 people and arrested around 150 others. Special Forces units and Islamist brigades carried out a massacre against communities perceived as RSF strongholds.”
He explained that he had received information from victims’ families in Sennar’s capital, Singa, indicating that “army units and allied militias—from Islamist brigades and joint forces—targeted Darfuri populations, killing dozens and torturing anyone associated with the RSF, including women.”
Separately, a civilian group calling itself the “Hausa Youth Assembly” issued a statement saying that “the tragic events following the army’s entry into Dinder and eastern Sennar resulted in the killing of more than 350 people, most of them from the Hausa tribe.” The group “holds the Sudanese army fully responsible for the massacres” and condemned the complicity of the Bara’a ibn Malik brigades (operating under army cover) and the Special Forces brigades.