A picture of the funeral of the victims of the attack carried out by the Rapid Support Forces in Wad Al-Noura, Gezira State (social media)
According to press reports, more than 200 people were killed in an attack carried out by the Rapid Support Forces in Gezira state in central Sudan, and the attack sparked a wave of condemnation and denunciation from various Sudanese parties.
Reports citing activists in the area indicated that the Rapid Support Forces targeted the village of Wad al-Noura with heavy weapons in an attack that lasted for hours on Wednesday, killing more than 200 people.
She pointed out that the support forces carried out field executions and looted the property of the villagers, in light of the interruption of communication networks in the area.
The Sudanese Resistance Committees said that they are waiting for the final number to count the dead and injured and their identities, considering that what was practiced against the villagers is genocide, massacre and a full-fledged crime committed by the Rapid Support Forces, as it described.
Videos posted by activists on social media showed villagers being funerals and burying them in a public square.
The resistance committees confirmed that the Rapid Support Forces caused a wave of displacement of women and children to the city of Al-Manaqil.
In return, the RSF justified its attack, saying it had dealt with army crowds that were preparing to attack in the Wad al-Noura area.
Condemnation and denunciation
The Transitional Sovereignty Council, headed by army commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, condemned the RSF’s attack on the village of Wad al-Noura, describing it as “a heinous crime that deplores humanity,” and called in a statement on the international community and human rights organizations to “condemn and denounce these crimes and hold the perpetrators accountable.”
Gezira state governor Tahir Ibrahim al-Khair denounced “the brutal violations committed by the RSF in the village of Wad al-Noura”.
“What happened in the village of Wad al-Noura and neighboring villages contradicts the customs of war and is considered a full-fledged war crime that must be condemned by the international community and held accountable,” the official Sudanese News Agency quoted al-Khair as saying.
For its part, the National Umma Party condemned what it considered an unjustified attack on innocent citizens in the village of Wad al-Noura.
For its part, the Future Movement for Reform and Development said in a statement that the Rapid Support Forces “are still continuing their heinous crimes after storming the village of Wad al-Noura, and committing a massacre akin to the revenge campaigns that we have seen only in the colonial campaigns.”
In a statement, the movement accused the Rapid Support Forces of committing massacres in the state of Gezira in which the death toll reached
In a statement, the Sudanese Congress Party condemned the attack on the village of Wad al-Noura, describing the incident as “a heinous crime in which the Rapid Support Forces cancelled it.”
In a statement, the Umma Party condemned the village incident, saying it “amounts to a war crime, a crime against humanity, a blatant challenge to all international conventions, laws and norms, and a flagrant violation of all morals recognized by humanity since time immemorial.”
The Popular Congress Party said the “horrific massacre” in the village of Wad al-Noura comes in the context of “terrorizing the people to make their will to stand firm”.
The Federal Assembly appealed to all parties to work to stop the war, “from which the Sudanese have only tasted bitterness and pain,” and considered that “pressure to stop this war is a humanitarian and moral duty for all actors from the political forces and civil society.”
The coalition of civil society organizations called for the criminalization of the Rapid Support Forces and the issuance of arrest warrants against their leaders, and called on the Security Council to classify the forces
Since mid-April 2023, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fighting battles that have left about 15,000 dead and more than 8 million displaced and refugees, according to the United Nations.
