Videos lift veil on hidden horrors in Sudan after '100 villagers massacred'

Bodies wrapped successful blankets are laid retired successful a beforehand yard. Some connected beds, others connected the hard ground.

"These are the martyrs of Al Sireiha - much than 100," the antheral signaling the video says, arsenic mourners commune and locomotion astir the corpses successful the poorly lit evening darkness.

Civilians were massacred successful the farming colony of Al Sireiha successful the eastbound parts of Sudan's Al Jazira authorities connected Friday.

The fearfulness has emerged successful a fistful of videos uploaded to societal media amid a telecommunications blackout.

"The fig of deaths we've received truthful acold is 124, though owed to connection outages, we haven't been capable to corroborate this oregon if it has risen," says Mohamed Tarek.

He is simply a subordinate of the Madani Resistance Committee, the authorities capital's subdivision successful a web of grassroots, frontline unpaid groups calved retired of Sudan's 2019 revolution.

Videos showing the brutal humiliation of residents astatine the hands of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Panicked dependable notes calling for involution and aesculapian assistance person been circulating successful the hours since.

"There are besides galore civilian injuries with nary mode to supply aesculapian assistance arsenic determination are nary aesculapian unit oregon equipped hospitals available," says Mohamed.

A daytime video shows RSF militiamen announcing their introduction into Al Sireiha - geolocated to the tract of the colony by Sudan OSINT adept Faisal El-Sheikh. They assertion that the service forces successful the country fled.

It is wide reported that determination was nary attraction of service forces successful the country erstwhile the onslaught took place.

This massacre is portion of a bid of RSF attacks connected villages successful the authorities pursuing the defection of the astir elder RSF commandant successful Al Jazira, Abu Aqla Keikal, to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).

The RSF and SAF person been battling for territorial power of the state since April 2023.

A video shared connected Thursday shows different wide ceremonial of 14 civilians successful the colony of Safeita conscionable days aft Keikal's nationalist defection and pardon for the atrocities committed nether his command.

Now, Keikal's sanction is being utilized to torment civilians successful Al Jazira's villages.

"Look, Keikal! Look astatine your remnants!" is yelled astatine men forced to beryllium astatine the bottommost of a wall. One of the frail men successful the video has bloodstains each implicit his achromatic thobe.

"Did Keikal instrumentality you?" says the antheral down the camera. The men look down and shingle their heads helplessly.

In different video, filmed by an RSF militiaman connected the backmost of a motortruck driving done a ungraded way betwixt Al Jazira's farming fields, men fleeing connected ft are told to hold for Keikal to prime them up. After being mocked and insulted, they are ordered to bleat similar sheep arsenic they escape.

Footage of burning crops reflects different grounds of the atrocities faced by the farming communities successful Al Jazira's villages. October - the celebrated period of harvest - has brought much bloodshed, hunger and displacement.

Mohamed from Madani's Resistance Committee says eyewitnesses had said that the RSF utilized mosque speakers to archer residents to evacuate the villages.

The videos shared each amusement antheral victims and interest is rising astir the destiny of the women.

"What is confirmed present is that successful a azygous colony [in this attack], 17 women including 3 nurses were assaulted," Suilaima Ishaq, the caput of Sudan's Unit of Combating Violence against Women and Children, tells Sky News.

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"The numbers whitethorn beryllium acold higher but owed to the deficiency of services and communications blackout, it is hard to monitor.

"The RSF uses intersexual unit [against women] arsenic a limb of warfare to people men and cement their defeat."

"Since the RSF invaded Al Jazira [last year], the portion has lone been capable to verify 26 cases of intersexual violence. The youngest unfortunate was 6 years aged and the oldest was 34. There were 4 cases of resulting pregnancy."

The RSF said: "In online statements, RSF affiliated accounts contradict the group's engagement successful atrocities against civilians and accidental the battle was connected equipped combatants."