Sudan’s Grisly Bloodbath Sends Terror through a Country Haunted by Killing
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""After October 7, 2023, most of the world came to a new understanding of evil. The images of desecrated and charred bodies, grasses strewn with blood and abandoned belongings, a running soundtrack of screams at the hands of Hamas. But violence speaks every language, and the horrors unfolding in Sudan rival the nightmares of this century’s worst massacres. And without the weight of the Western world, their slaughter is only the beginning. The situation, the United Nations warns, is spiraling out of control.
The horrors, so gruesome that even American news outlets cannot look away, are “visible from space” — blood pooling on the ground, piles of human remains, lines of terrified people who could be next. After a year and a half of fighting, the city of El Fasher, which had been the last stronghold of the Sudanese military, fell — unleashing a wave of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militants on the hundreds of thousands of innocents inside the city. As the sand wall around the city was toppled, armed men opened fire on the local people — mowing down helpless men, women, and children as others videotaped the rampage. “They would ask a man to run,” one survivor said. “Once you start running, they shoot you.”
“It was like a killing field. Bodies everywhere and people bleeding and no one to help them,” Tajal-Rahman told the Associated Press after he escaped to a nearby town. “Some people were run over by vehicles,” reiterated Saeeda, a 28-year-old woman. “While we were on the road, they took girls from our group — choosing them and dragging them away.”
Trapped like caged animals, the locals were lined up and executed. In grisly footage uploaded by the RSF fighters, the carnage is chilling. “One, filmed near the berm, shows dozens of bodieson the ground and fighters with RSF insignia walking among them as vehicles burn nearby and sporadic gunfire pops off in the background. ‘We killed them,’ the man who took the video, which has been verified by NBC News, can be heard saying. ‘They are just dust now.’ Another shows an RSF commander, whom NBC News has identified as Abu Lulu, shooting at a line of men sitting on the ground.”
In eerie echoes of Hamas, the soldiers went door to door through the houses, “beating and shooting” at everyone inside. Some of the worst scenes took place at the city’s only functioning hospital, where the World Health Organization can confirm that more than 460 patients, doctors, nurses, and staff were murdered in cold blood.
For women and young girls, the terror is being caught alive. “At least 25 women were gang raped when RSF’s forces entered a shelter for displaced people near El Fasher University. Witnesses confirm RSF’s personnel selected women and girls and raped them at gunpoint,” Seif Magango, spokesperson for the U.N. human rights office, said somberly.""