2023-04-28 18:15:24
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Shops and the market in El Geneina city have been looted and looted over the past two days
Eyewitnesses told the BBC that armed groups on motorcycles and four-wheel drive vehicles stormed the market in the city of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, and looted, following a violent attack on the city yesterday, which led to clashes.
Eyewitnesses also told the BBC that yesterday morning, the southern part of the city witnessed attacks by the Rapid Support Forces, in light of the apparent absence of security.
An eyewitness recounts the details of what he saw on Thursday, saying: “The market was stormed by unknown persons carrying weapons and riding motorcycles.”
Another eyewitness said, “The attack continued from six in the morning until six in the evening,” in the Al-Madares and Al-Majlis neighborhoods, and the Imam Al-Kadhim shelter for the displaced. While Al-Tadamon and Al-Thawra neighborhoods witnessed clashes the day before yesterday.
According to other eyewitnesses contacted by the BBC, the banks were robbed yesterday, Thursday, and “the only blood bank belonging to the teaching hospital” in the city was bombed.
Eyewitnesses also reported to the BBC that the Rapid Support Forces “looted the market and burned citizens’ property, and drinking water was poisoned in the tanks that distribute water in the customs and al-Jabal neighborhoods.”
In addition, the deputy chief of police in Darfur, Brigadier General Abdel-Baqi al-Hassan al-Ahmad, was assassinated during the clashes, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to the BBC, whose names have not been released for their safety.
In response, Mustafa Mohamed Ibrahim, a member of the advisory office of the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, told the BBC: “The current events in El Geneina have nothing to do with the Rapid Support Forces…they are tribal events between the tribes in the city,” and added, “The forces did not intervene.” Rapid support in these events.
What caused the beginning of the clashes in the city of El Geneina?
The governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abkar, told the BBC that the clashes began three days ago, following elements of the Sudanese armed forces arrived at the joint leadership of the Sudanese-Chadian forces in the city of El Geneina, and at that time “forces from the Rapid Support Forces attacked them,” which witnesses also said. Eyewitness to the BBC.
However, Ibrahim, a member of the advisory office of the RSF Commander, denied to the BBC that the RSF attacked the Sudanese Armed Forces.
Last January, Chad and Sudan agreed to deploy joint Sudanese-Chadian forces along the border in West Darfur state, bordering Chad.
An archive photo of the city of El Geneina
“catastrophic” situation Hospitals are out of service
Khamis Abkar added to the BBC: “The battles, which lasted for three days, left a dire humanitarian situation, and more than 15 shelters were burned, in addition to attacks on homes and acts of looting,” adding that the city’s market – the only one in the city – was looted. over the course of two days.
He added, “There is relative calm, but I appeal to international and international organizations to intervene because of the catastrophic humanitarian situation. If the intervention does not take place within two days, the state will be on the verge of a major disaster.”
Dr. Ali Bashir, Vice-Chairman of the Preliminary Committee of the Sudan Doctors Syndicate, said, “The number of dead that the (syndicate) has registered so far is 72.” But he adds that the number exceeds that, because there are still dead whose names have not been recorded yet, adding that the number of wounded has reached 300.
Bashir also said that the only hospital in the city of El Geneina was bombed, and all the small hospitals are out of service, following they were also bombed. He called for an air bridge to save the wounded, and added to the BBC: “The situation in El Geneina requires swift and decisive intervention to separate the warring parties.”
An eyewitness told the BBC that some bodies had been burned during the clashes.
Condemnations of the situation in El Geneina
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Sudan, Volker Berthes, expressed, in a tweet via the account of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), “deep concern regarding the situation indicating the occurrence of acts of violence in (Western Darfur)”.
The Sudanese National Congress Party issued a statement expressing its concern regarding “a terrible deterioration in the security and humanitarian situation that threatens a catastrophe.”
The beginning of the conflict in Darfur
The conflict in the Darfur region began between 2003 and 2004, when armed movements such as the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement began launching attacks once morest government forces, accusing the Khartoum government at the time of persecuting and marginalizing people of African descent on behalf of people of Arab descent in Darfur.
The Sudanese government admitted that it had mobilized the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) militias following the rebels attacked them. But Darfurians say the government has used the so-called “Janjaweed” militias of Arab tribes to try to expel people of African descent. The Sudanese government at the time denied any connection with it.
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