A nurse named Nawal Khalil had been working as a nurse over a three-year period within the South El Fasher hospital after the city fell captured on Sunday by the RSF fighters. She was actively caring for the sick, featuring one senior woman who needed a blood transfusion, as the assault commenced.
“Six injured soldiers were killed plus civilian patients in their beds – including some women,” she states. “I am unaware of the fate regarding my other patients. I was forced to flee when they stormed the hospital.”
Khalil, aged 27, received a gunshot wound to her right foot and upper leg as RSF fighters took control of the adjacent military command center. She ran from the urban area and traveled on foot for one day, hurt and lacking sustenance, to reach the town of Garney. “On the way, they confiscated my phone and cash,” she says. “I possessed nothing remaining.”
More than 1,000 people – featuring females and minors – walked for two days to arrive at Tawila town located in northern Darfur after fleeing El Fasher, which was seized following an 18-month blockade.
The town of Tawila, approximately 34 miles westward of El Fasher, is under the control of the SLA-AW group under Abdul Wahid Mohamed al-Nur's leadership.
On Tuesday, the allied Joint Forces – that cooperate with the Sudanese army – blamed the RSF for slaughtering in excess of 2,000 non-combatants following the urban center's takeover. The UN reported there were videos depicting dozens of weaponless men who were shot or found dead, surrounded by RSF fighters.”
Fighting broke out in Khartoum back on April 15, 2023 when an intensifying power struggle involving the two key groups of the military regime ultimately became violent.
On one side are the Sudanese armed forces, who remain broadly loyal towards General al-Burhan, the de facto head of state. Opposing him are the paramilitaries belonging to the RSF, a collection of militias which support the ex-warlord General Dagalo, referred to as Hemedti.
The Rapid Support Forces were first created by the former dictatorial ruler Bashir's regime as an Arab counterinsurgency militia known as the Janjaweed, that rapidly became associated with massive human rights violations. Back in 2013, Bashir converted the organization into the Rapid Support Forces, deploying them to crush a recent insurrection in southern Darfur.
The war has pushed Sudan into among the most severe humanitarian crises in recent history”, based on UN statements. It has produced the world’s worst displacement crisis, scattering more than 10 million people within the country plus 4 million who escaped into neighbouring countries, creating increasing strain on both Chad and South Sudan.
Per observer reports, many additional civilians continue to be held by the RSF and associated armed groups in the Garney area, south-west of El Fasher. Numerous are ex-military personnel belonging to the Sudanese military, the collaborative forces and other armed groups that were previously aligned with the military. They are reportedly being held as they lack funds for extortion payments between five and ten million Sudanese pounds (around six to twelve thousand pounds), based on survivor accounts who reached Tawila. Those unable to pay have been detained for days, and in some cases released only after falling seriously ill.
The SLA-AW has reportedly allowed army soldiers running from El Fasher to come into Tawila if they relinquish their arms.
A man named Adam Yagoub, twenty-eight years old, a motorist originating from Sennar within central Sudan, barely avoided execution subsequent to his seizure by three armed men mounted on camels in the Garney vicinity.
“They wanted to cut my head off with a knife,” he tells, displaying his arm, which one militant assaulted with the butt of an AK-47 rifle. “Subsequently one identified me – his sibling had collaborated with me – and urged them not to execute me. We were 18 people who exited El Fasher as a group, however just eight arrived in Tawila. I assume the others died.”
Yagoub reports he witnessed 22 deceased individuals close to what he described as a deceptive well employed by the RSF and partner armed groups between Garney and Tawila. “It’s a trap,” he comments. “Persons journey daily without hydration, and when they reach it, the armed groups lie in wait. They killed 22 men there and removed the corpses to conceal them.”
Another nurse who ran from South El Fasher hospital after the attack on Sunday stated RSF combatants came in via one entrance and began shooting at patients in the emergency ward, killing at least eight. “We ran out via another entrance, however they struck my head with a firearm,” he states.
Via a recorded message this past Wednesday, the leader of the RSF, Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, called Hemedti, declared that any fighter or officer who had “violated the right of any person” would be held accountable.
Many of those who escaped El Fasher utilized hours taking cover close to army artillery positions prior to escaping westward during nighttime. Families already uprooted originating from the urban Abu Shouk settlement were compelled to relocate again, seeking refuge in the Daraja Oula neighbourhood prior to ultimately traveling to Tawila.
Those captured by the RSF in Garney were apparently provided {water mixed with flour|flour
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