El-Fasher Tragedy: Thousands Killed as Sudan’s Conflict Turns Deadlier
El-Fasher, the western Sudanese city, capital of North Darfur state, was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Thousands are feared to have been murdered.
Aadrika Tayal 
New Delhi (India) October 30: Thousands of people have been killed following a massacre in Sudan’s Al-Fashir that has sparked international gasps of horror. After a 17-month siege of the city, more than 2,000 civillians were killed, and there were executions, raids, and rape reports. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey have condemned it as a heinous act and have demanded a ceasefire and humanitarian access.
As RSF troops tighten their grip on Darfur, the UN has expressed concern about “a terrible escalation,” reviving concerns of another Sudanese split. Meanwhile, experts believe that Al-Fashir’s falling is “one of the darkest chapters in Sudan’s recent history”.
Satellite Images Reveal the Bloody Truth
The Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health published the note Satellite Imagery Reveals Devastating Expose In Sudan’s El-Fasher. The reddish trace on the ground, which is almost definitely blood, and what appear to be clusters of items that resemble human bodies are truthful.
Pictures obtained by Airbus Defence and Space, an aerial firm, on October 27 were examined by the HRL at Yale. It gives visible proof of mass murder committed by the Rapid Support Forces following the city’s capture, which was the final Sudanese Armed Forces stronghold in North Darfur.
The rocket damage at the headquarters and the thermal scarring over the place’s earlier images reflect the gravity of the attack.
Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
In El-Fasher city, 26,000 people have been displaced. Thousands more are stuck there, with the dynamics of loot and hack. Imaging shows clusters headed south toward the RSF-controlled Zamzam Internally Displaced Persons camp and west toward Tawilah.
Gold, Power, and War: The Forces Fueling Sudan’s Conflict
The RSF’s main crime is related to Sudan’s gold; Africa’s third-largest producer, RSF mines these reserves in Darfur and smuggles it to UAE producing millions upon millions for weapons and drones. The UAE denies arming the RSF. Libya’s Khalifa Haftar backs the RSF. The Sudanese Armed Forces is funded by Egypt, Turkey, and Iran.
Dark History of RSF
The RSF evolved from the Janjaweed militias who rode horses in the early 2000s into western Sudan was later re-named RSF.
The term Janjaweed is Sudanese Arabic for devils on horseback. This is because these militias raided, burned, raped and murdered Darfur villages. RSF controls western Sudan, including Darfur and Kordofan. They have put behind the horses and relied more on trucks and even drones, but the system has shown aggression.
The RSF terror force brewed ethnically, with some hostility from non-Arab people like the Massalit. It used rape as a tool to scare. In 2003, the US coined the Darfur situation genocide. UN Secretary Antonio Guterres called his current situation unbearable. This is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis of any nation, but the world feels too much justified.
