April 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Sudanese Doctors' Union Committee has denounced this Sunday the death of 28 people in the town of Um Odham, located in the state of Gezira (center), at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), declared in rebellion since the start of fighting against the Sudanese Army almost a year ago, a conflict that has plunged the country into one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
“With deep pain and anger, we vehemently condemn the massacre perpetrated by the RSF in the village of Um Odham (…). This new massacre, committed on April 6, adds to the history of crimes against humanity. This act of barbarism caused the death of no less than 28 innocent villagers and injured more than 240 people with varying degrees of severity,” the organization said on its Facebook social network account.
In addition, it has reported that the RSF opened fire with light and heavy weapons “in a dense and indiscriminate manner” on the unarmed civilian population, whose number of victims could be higher in the absence of more information due to communications failures.
The union has also asserted that the paramilitary troops looted the village and then headed towards Al Faqir, repeating this type of actions that are “an everyday occurrence.”
After this, the doctors have once again condemned the war and called for its “immediate cessation” due to the loss of “many precious lives”, property and the “total collapse of the state structure”, demanding immediate intervention from the community. to “put an end to the violations” and to hold “those responsible for the massacres accountable.
The war between the Sudanese Army and the RSF broke out in mid-April 2023 due to strong disagreements regarding the integration process of the group, then paramilitary, within the Armed Forces, a situation that caused the transition to derail. opened in 2019 after the overthrow of Omar al Bashir.
The clashes, in which different reports show attacks against civilians by both sides, have caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world with more than 14,000 verified deaths, leaving more than seven million displaced and refugees and causing 18 million of people suffer from food insecurity.
