While the Sudanese RSF surrounds Darfur’s el-Fasher, the ethnic killings were afraid of | Sudanese war news

The Sudanese army could lose the last big city that controls in the Western region of Darfur within a few days of the paramilitary forces of fast support (RSF), according to analysts, local monitors and RSF sources.

Observers are afraid that this could lead to crime against humanity by RSF and a humanitarian disaster in El-Fasher, the capital of the northern Darfur state.

But Musabel, an advisor for the RSF, told Al Jazeera: “The RSF will release El-Fasher … for about 10 days.”

From January 21, RSF launched the drones, fired an artillery and surrounded El-Fasher from the East and West, according to a humanitarian research laboratory at Yale University, which relies on satellite images.

Al Jazeera spoke with four sources in northern Darfur, who was substantiated by the findings.

“RSF always attacks from the East [to distract the enemy]But then they end up from the west, “said Nathaniel Raymond, the executive director of the humanitarian research laboratory.

The main push

In April 2023, the struggle for power between the RSF army broke out into the civil war.

Credible reports reveal that the RSF has performed mass murder and systematic rape gangs for recording South, East, Central and Western Darfur until November 2023.

Rights groups accuse both sides of committing crimes.

The RSF surrounded El-Fasher after several previous antigoven armed movements known as common forces in April are the army to protect the city from a potential RSF attack.

Despite its military advantages to the joint forces, the RSF could not take El-Fasher while the rainy season stretched in October and flooded the roads, interfering with the RSF vehicles to get there, Raymond said.

RSF, who was kicking Central and Eastern Sudan as the army fought In order to regain the lost territory, it is focused on taking over El-Fasher and cementing control over Darfur to make up for losses elsewhere, said local monitors.

On January 25, the group killed at least 80 people in the attack on Borush Village, about 170 KM (105 miles) east of El-Fasher, according to Darfur24, local development of news sources on the ground.

The Authentication Agency Al Jazeere, Sadan, confirmed a video passed by RSF fighters, which can be seen counting the number of people killed in Borush.

Each body lay in the pool of blood in the trench and seemed to be in civilian clothing.

“The civilians picked up their weapons to try to protect their country. Most civilians in northern Darfur picked up some weapons … to defend themselves against RSF,” said Zakaria Mohamed, a local journalist.

Musabel said these killed were legitimate targets because they were armed.

“They mobilized with weapons to attack and threaten RSF,” he said in a voice note.

“They stole two of our cars, so we answered killing armed people.”

The reporting of Al Jazeere, the Human Rights Group and the United Nations experts have documented countless attacks by RSF against helpless civilians. They often performed a summary of execution and drove entire communities from their country.

Fearing similar crimes, communities across Sudan picked up a weapon in an attempt to protect themselves from RSF.

Completing the genocide?

Civilians at the Zamzam camp for displaced people they are particularly in danger If El-Fasher falls, according to groups of rights and analysts.

The camp is about 15 km (9.3 miles) south of the city center and had a pre -war population of about 300,000 people.

The massive displacement of the current war has been overwhelmed by the population to more than half a million, many of which are from the “non -Arab” sedentary agricultural tribe.

They escaped what many experts describe as genocidal violence to the state “Arabic” nomadic tribal militia, which began in 2003.

At that time, the central government surpassed the brutal campaign to overthrow the mainly non-Arab groups of rebellion against the political and economic marginalization of their people into these Arab militia.

In 2013, these Arab tribal militia were repacked as RSF President Omar al-Bashir and has since developed combat capabilities that far outweigh the “non-Arab” armed groups defended by El-Fasher.

They have been shelling the Zamzam camp several times.

At noon al-Barmaki, a local journalist who found a refuge in Zamzam to avoid the strike of RSF and the blows of drones in El-Fasher, said all roads from northern Darfur from Zamzam were cut off by RSF and all in the camp believe that they die if El-Fasher falls on Rsf.

“War … [mostly] He took the form of ‘Arab’ tribes against ‘non-Arab’ tribes, ”said Al-Barmaki.

“If RSF records and controls El-Fasher, then the largest is [ethnic] mass murder in [our] History will take place, “she warned.

External substrate

Through the war, the RSF managed to accumulate sophisticated weapons such as drones, Antiaircraft rockets and artillery thanks to the unsettled supply lines from Chad, Libya and South Sudan.

In comparison, the common forces supported by the army receives the occasional rays of the basic ammunition from the army.

UN experts, right-wing groups and even US legislators accuse the United Arab Emirates of supplying RSF superior municipality, including Norinco AH4 Gun Howitzers, artillery weapons of Chinese products.

The UAE Foreign Ministry has refused Ue -Mail Al Jazeera that it has ever supported any warring party in the conflict.

“The primary focus of the UAE in Sudan remains to be resolved by a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. We continue to call for a immediate truce and a peaceful solution to this conflict created by a man. In this regard, UAE has already made it clear that it does not provide any support or supplies to any of the two belligerent warring parties in Sudan, “the statement said.

At the end of 2024, American senator Chris Van Hollen published a letter from Brett McGurk, the then Council of Security Council for the Middle East and North Africa, saying that the US Government received the belief that UAE “now does not transfer weapons on weapons of RSF weapons And they won’t do it forward. “

Despite McGurk’s beliefs, Van Hollen and American representative Sarah Jacobs said on January 24 of still accusing UAE for shipping weapons in RSF.

Raymond does this and said that the UAE plays a decisive role in helping RSF to catch El-Fasher, citing recent accusations of flying weapons in southern Darfur.

He believes that the global community should do more to end the conflict and protect civilians.

“The international community is missing in action,” Raymond said.

“There should be green zones, zone without flight and civilian protection forces. These are the conversations we were supposed to lead 18 months ago,” Al Jazeera said