Sudanese military military trips rival fighters from Cartum, a great shift in the Civil War
Paravial struggles with Sudanese fast support forces withdrew on Wednesday from the beaten capital of Khartoum, fleeing the city that occupied the breakdown almost two years ago.
“Khartoum is now free,” said the military chief of Sudan, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who came to a brief visit to the presidential palace demolished on the battalion, which his forces seized days earlier.
The residents poured out into the street, cheering soldiers, in Burri, the neighborhood of the Nile “One Army, one people,” they sang. The soldiers combed through the new captured areas, hunting for paramilitary burgers, some of which were beaten.
Taking the capital by the Sudan’s army was marked by an important shift in the largest war in Africa, which brought a massacre, hunger and careful destruction in vigilance. But it is unlikely that the war will end.
Analysts said that fast support forces, or RSF, were likely to be too many in Darfur, his stronghold in the far west of Sudan, where they vowed to establish a parallel government and continue to process the war.
The shots of the drones surrounded by the Sudanese army in the morning showed that hundreds of RSF fighters flee across the Dam to Nile in the Fuck Aulia, 25 miles south of the capital – their last remaining escape path. By the afternoon it was clear that they were diverted.
The army announced that it had captured a large RSF base near the dam and that the remaining forces of the RSF were persecuted throughout the city.
“A few remains are left here and there in his pockets,” Brig said. General Nabil Abdullah, a military spokesman. “It will soon be destroyed.”
The loss of Khartoum, one of the largest cities on the African continent, was inflicted by a kick and RSF for the ambitions of foreign sponsors, especially the united Arab emirates, which has supplied it with a powerful weapon Since the beginning of the war.
General Al-Kbarhan, who runs the Sudanese army, and Lieutenant Mohamed Hamdan, who leads the forces of fast support, were once allies, but went to war almost two years ago During the dispute about the plan of paramilitary troops that the army absorbs.
The fighting was killed by about 150,000 people and displaced more than 13 million, sending almost four million escapes to neighboring countries – which was the world’s largest crisis. The refugees spoke of escape from rape, massacre and hunger.
As the withdrawal on Wednesday took place via the cartoon, the city suddenly opened and destroyed two years of war.
On the Manhio Bridge, a strategic center of the city, Sudanese soldiers crossed the Blue Nil early Wednesday early Wednesday, said Walid Ahmed, 43, a guard who was a guard. “The battle of the palace finished them,” he said. “They lost morals.”
In a nearby residential area, residents retreated and cheered as they tried to a group of soldiers. Several residents said they were deeply facilitated that they had attended the paramilitary.
“Will you stay with us this time? Or will you leave again?” They prayed to Eman Elbagir on one officer. “We had enough abuse. We have a lot of robberies. We can’t even sleep at night.”
Another woman, Amira Elamin, said women had suffered some of the worst abuse within the RSF, whose forces included mercenaries from Chad and Libya. “They took our daughters to the room,” she said, using euphemism for sexual abuse. “We screamed and yelled. We said.” Don’t take your daughters! Instead, take us! “
But, she added, “it was no use.”
Both sides in Sudan war are charged with crimes, and there are fears that the capture of the cartoon could bring fresh liter of abuse.
Several streets removed, the soldier stood over two men, tied to his hands, twitching in the dust. The soldiers said two men were suspected of being sympathizers or troops of RSF.
One soldier hit the men to the ground. The yard, other soldiers fired a weapon while trying to throw out other suspects out of the house.
Videos confirmed by The New York Times showed a fighter from Bara Ibn Malik, an Islamist militia fighting along with the army, Throwing eight men with a blindfold with a hose about 10 miles from the city center.
A sudden withdrawal of RSF comes five days after The army captured the presidential palace In the central khartoum, a key symbolic and strategic victory.
Since then, the army has constantly taken control of the capital, fighting as she retreated. Times journalists heard explosions and shots as they passed through the abandoned city center on Tuesday.
By Wednesday, the army took over the city international airport and continued to press the south.
Now it seemed that the last concentration of RSF fighter was in Omdurman, on the west coast of Nile, which was divided between the control of the army and the RSF.
After Wednesday night, an artillery bang was heard on Omdurman. It was not immediately clear which side was fired.
Abdalrahman Altayeb and Dreamed Varghese contribute to reporting.