Shortly after presenting a compulsory report to Human Rights Council In Geneva on Tuesday, president of the mission of teaching the facts on Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, insisted that The Sudanese Armed Forces militia (SAF) and rapid support forces (RSF) had made crimes of atrocity.
Among the testimonies gathered for the report, the survivors of RSF detention sites described the locations as “slaughterhouses”.
Tortured, marked, refused medical care
In a notorious RSF establishment, dozens of detainees died between June and October of this year after being tortured, refused food and medical care, said independent rights expert.
Similarly, in the detention establishments managed by SAF, “civilians were also subjected to torture, including an electric shock, sexual abuse and they were held in cells so overcrowded that some prisoners had to sleep,” he added.
Furthermore, Girls as young as 12 were forced to get married“Sometimes under the threat of death for their families”, the president of the mission who is declining.
“Men and boys have also been subjected to sexualized torture and such acts are rooted in racism, prejudices and impunity and they devastate entire communities.”
Stressing the lack of diplomatic solutions to the conflict that started in April 2023, and its massive impact of war on civilians, the co-author Mona Rishmawi report insisted that “everyone knows that you cannot rape, you cannot plunder, you cannot destroy goods. You cannot starve people … but If there is no responsibility, of course, they will continue to do so. “”
Extermination objective
When asked why the report had decided not to describe what happened in Sudan as a genocide, Ms. Rishmawi replied that evidence “examines essentially more or less the same type of violations as genocide”.
She added: “You kill, [you provide] No food, no water, you do not allow food production. You do not allow access to food, markets … and you do not allow access to humanitarian aid. What you want is killing the population … so, The effect of this is really the crime against humanity … of extermination. “”
Hunger crisis
The investigation organization created by the Human Rights Council in October 2023 underlined the devastating humanitarian emergency which resulted from the war.
“In travel camps such as Zamzam and Abu Shouk, Witnesses describe children who die of hunger and dehydration in the streetsIncluding people eating animal food, “said Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, an expert member of the fact teaching mission.
Addressing the Council earlier, the president of the mission who has the search for facts, Mr. Othman, insisted on the fact that war “destroyed not only lives, but also the means of survival”, with hospitals, markets, water and electrical systems – and even humanitarian convoys – systematically attacked.
“The markets, the backpack of food access, have been bombed several times,” he said, adding that in October 2024, SAF air strikes on El Koma Market killed at least 45 civilians.
Die of thirst
“Two months later, the Kabkabiya market was struck, killing more than 100. In March of this year, SAF bombed the Tora market during rush hour, killing and injuring hundreds.”
The mission report underlined how the RSF had also bombed the markets, pitted entire areas and destroyed the Zamzam camp market.
The RSF drone strikes struck the Merowe dam and the water towers, Leave communities without drinking waterWhile “a mother told us that she had lost her four children thirsty by fleeing,” said Othman, who, like the other members of the panel, is an independent human rights expert and not a member of the UN staff.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
