Sudan's Ministry of Culture, Information and Tourism issued a statement on the 27th, condemning the paramilitary organization Sudan Rapid Support Force for blatantly violating international humanitarian law by targeting civilians in El Fasher, the capital of Northern Darfur State, and Bala, Northern Kordofan State. committed robbery, massacres and other crimes.
Sudan's non-governmental organization "Sudan Doctors Network" issued a statement on the same day, saying that since taking control of Barra City on the 25th, the Rapid Support Forces have been looting, kidnapping and executing civilians in the city, resulting in a large number of civilians missing. On the 27th, Rapid Support Forces broke into residents' homes and killed 47 civilians, including 9 women. In addition, the Rapid Support Forces killed at least dozens of people in El Fasher on ethnic grounds and ransacked pharmacies and medical facilities in the city.
According to a statement issued by the Sudanese local organization "Coordination of the Fasher Resistance Committees", thousands of civilians have fled from Fasher in the past two days, and people face the risk of being detained and killed by the rapid support forces when fleeing the war zone.
The Emergency Response Force has not yet responded to the statements.
On the 25th and 26th, the rapid support force announced control of strategic locations of Barra and El Fasher. In this regard, the Sudanese Armed Forces have not yet expressed their position. On the 27th, Sudan's Darfur Region Administrator Minnawi posted on social media that the fall of El Fasher does not mean that Darfur will fall into the hands of violent organizations. He called for the protection of civilians, disclosure of displacements and investigations into crimes committed by the Rapid Support Forces.
UN Secretary-General Guterres said in an interview with the media on the 27th that the conflict in Sudan has escalated seriously, and "the suffering we have witnessed in Sudan is unbearable".
Tom Fletcher, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said on Saturday that as armed forces further advance into Fashir City, civilian escape routes have been cut off and hundreds of thousands of people are stranded in cities without access to food, medical services and security.
On April 15, 2023, armed conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces in the capital, Khartoum, and the war then spread to other regions. On May 10, last year, Rapid Support Forces began the siege of Fashir. The two-and-a-half-year armed conflict in Sudan has killed 30,000 people.