Killing in the Darfur Market in Sudan, hundreds of dead

Vatican News

A horrific massacre, with hundreds of dead civilians and dozens of serious injuries. This is the balance of the air attack carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces against the city market in Tora, in North Darfur, and this constitutes a “flagrant violation of international human rights and a systematic war crime by virtue of the Geneva and Rome agreements from the International Criminal Court.”

The complaint of the massacre, which is supposed to happen on Monday, but this has not yet confirmed independent sources, among other things due to the interruption of communications throughout Darfur, from A group of emergency lawyersA group of Sudanese pentist lawyers, who have documented human rights violations since the beginning of the war in Sudan in April 2023.

A deliberate attack against civilians

These massacres, praying a leaflet published by the team in X, reflects a “deliberate attack against civilians and demand for measures”, because “it is necessary for the impunity to end,” the lawyers, who are asking for an independent investigation to stop the attacks against civilians, writes, but also “to ensure that those responsible for these crimes bear accounts before international courts.”

He also requires “urgent legal measures to address all participants in issuing and implementing bombing orders” and imposing “penalties on those responsible for these serious violations.” after that , A group of emergency lawyers He directly accuses the Sudanese armed forces of the crime, ensuring the continued documentation of crimes and work “to transfer those responsible for justice, emphasize the principle of unwillingness and ensure justice to the victims.”

Conflict violence

Since April 2023, Sudan is a scene of a fierce war between the Rapid Support Forces of Al -Furajram (FPR), which was directed by General Muhammad Hamdan Daglo and the army, led by General Abdul -Fateh Al -Bouran.

“In these two years – he explains to the Vatican media, Alda Capliti, A great humanitarian advisor in IntersosAnd who has just returned from Darov – the civilian population supported many attacks. It is a violent conflict, from the beginning, it was aimed at the civilian population, not only in Darfur, one of the entrances to the conflict, but also in many other regions of the country. Civil population has always been a target of bombings, direct but perpetrators of drones, and is also also on an ethnic basis, by both sides, whether it is the ordinary Sudanese army or RSF forces.

Terrible atrocities

The country’s infrastructure has been completely destroyed, and the contacts are fully boycotted, hundreds of displaced people are trying to find a shelter every day. “We are used to thinking that it is a struggle between two factions that ignore – Capliti continues – but in reality there are many armed groups allied with one or another of the main actors that control the region.”

Darfur was, specifically, the scene of some of the greatest atrocities, such as the latter, who is accused of the army and RSF. According to the numbers presented by the International Organization for Migration, the fighting last week in North Darfur was displaced about fifteen thousand families within 48 hours.