A mass slaughter took place in a hospital in the city of Al Fashar in Sudan last weekend. More than 460 patients and family members have been killed there, according to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO). “All attacks on healthcare institutions must stop immediately and unconditionally,” the statement said Director General of WHOTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on X.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed this weekend to have captured Al Fashar, almost 800 kilometers southwest of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, from the government army of President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Reports of large-scale massacres came from all sides. According to the aid organization Sudan Doctors Network, the paramilitaries killed 1,500 civilians in Al Fashar in three days. “All were killed as they tried to flee the city to escape escalating fighting,” a spokesman said. a statement on Facebook.
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The RSF itself distributes images of its advance. This, according to the Sudan Doctors Network, is “part of a deliberate and systematic campaign of murder and extermination.” Mini Arko Minawi, governor of the Darfur region, himself also leader of a paramilitary group, posted a video on X with images of the massacre in the hospital. “More than 460 sick civilians were killed in hospital,” he wrote. “The United Arab Emirates must either reject the Rapid Support Forces militia or take full responsibility. The UN Security Council has a responsibility to arrest Hemedti and his brother Abdelrahim Dagalo wherever they are.” The Dagalo brothers are the leaders of the RSF.
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