Sudanese paramilitary forces accused of working to invite foreign intervention in bloody war
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday claimed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is working to prompt international intervention as they are now losing more ground to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
The ministry said that with the government insisting that the RSF vacates all private houses and the Army driving further into previously militia held zones, the RSF has resorted to attacking areas where the Army is not stationed.
It said the RSF, under the pretext of civilian protection, had been systematically escalating massacres and atrocities against civilians as it seeks to lure the international community into sending troops to the country.
In a statement released on Thursday, the ministry reported that, over the past two days, the RSF forces had committed new massacre in the city of Hilaliya in Gazira State, central Sudan, killing at least 120 civilians, mostly women and elderly.
It added that some of the civilians, including men, women, and children, held hostage by the militia in various parts of the city have died either from gunshots or due to food poisoning and lack of medical care.
The ministry highlighted that this atrocity follows ongoing international condemnation of massacres carried out by the militia in the past two weeks in Saieha village, 58 other villages, and six cities in the same region of central Sudan, following the defection of a leading RSF leader on 10 October.
The statement noted that this latest massacre coincides with a similar, vengeful assault against unarmed villagers in northern Darfur, where the militia, having failed in multiple attacks against the town of El Fashir, the main town in Darfur region, burned more than 40 villages in the state.
The RSF have denied those accusations.
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