El Fasher is the worst battleground of Sudan’s brutal civil war

Nairobi, Kenya: The last functioning hospital of the city was bombed more than 30. Every day between 30 and 40, a seriously malfunctioning child looks for income and help. There’s nothing but animal feed.

“We are even eating animal feed, Dr says Dr Omar Selen, bending his camera during a video call to show his food: a paste made of pressed peanuts given to cows, camels and donkeys. “There is nothing else.”

El Pash is the worst battlefield of Sudan’s brutal civil war. For about 18 months, the city in the western region of Darfur is under siege by paramilitaries trying to submit to him. The warriors built a 30 -kilometer earth wall around the borders.

This leaves the inhabitants with a terrible option. Risk of thick and bombing or hungry. Risk and killing, robbing or sexual assault.

“People seem to have forgotten us, Selen says Selen, drowning in tears. “Oh my God, this is a very painful story.”

More than two years ago, the war in Sudan began when the clashes broke out between Sudan’s army and the rapid support forces of the paramilitary rival. The struggle swallowed the third largest country in Africa, forced approximately 12 million people from their homes, killed tens of thousands of people and launched a major famine. Aid groups are called the world’s largest human crisis.

When the rapid support forces were expelled from the capital Khartoum, the group doubled the effort of most RSF fighters to capture Darfur in Western Sudan. El Pasher is the last city on their way.

Since April, when RSF made a ramp to Zamzam, a scarce camp 11 kilometers south of the city and described the United Nations as one of the worst massacres of the war, killed 300 to 1500 people since April.

A month later, the RSF began to take the city into a circle with the giant Toprak Berm, according to the satellite images published by Yale Public Health School. On August 27, the construction was going on to extend the bermi.

In El Pasher, about 260,000 people were trapped by siege siege. Taha Khater, one of the few aid workers in the city, sells a pound of pasta, $ 73 ($ 110), 10 times the normal price. The group, known as the emergency intervention rooms, recorded the death of 14 children without malnutrition within the previous two weeks. Cholera is spreading.

Food convoys from the United Nations, which have not been able to deliver food to El Past for more than a year, were attacked by drones as they approached the city. In June, he killed five aid workers in a convoy of a strike and 15 trucks; Last month, another destroyed three trucks and forced the rest to return. It is unclear which side attacks.

Khater said that young men trying to escape from the city were struggling over the night at night and that they were executed by fighters.

International aid groups offer help in Tawila, a 60 kilometers small town in the west with more than 600,000 refugees. But the journey to Tawila is dangerous. Warriors travel around the area, rob the escaping civilians or force. Help workers say the road is covered with hurried tombs and abandoned bodies.

“They stayed there,” says Sylvain Penicaud, the president of doctors who do not have borders in Tawila, says on the phone.

Rape is common. The hospital treats about 40 sexual assault victims every week, but the anecdotic evidence shows that “this is nothing compared to real ratio”.

Sudan’s army is accused of widespread war crimes, including raids on the crowded markets near El Bash. In January, the United States applied sanctions on alleged use of chemical weapons to General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the leader of Sudan’s army.

However, only the RSF was accused of genocide, and this month, the UN Inspectors have found that the long list of atrocities committed by the troops in El Bas has been crimes against humanity. An RSF spokesman did not answer questions for this story.

Foreign participation in the war in Sudan has worsening the siege. The United Arab Emirates provided weapons, drones and medical support to the RSF, hoping to push the group towards victory. New York Times reported.

This month, Sudan’s military leadership presented a file to the UN Security Council, accusing Emirates of renting a group of colombian mercenaries known as desert wolves.

Passport copies, contracts, and a list of 170 people who are said to be mercenaries, files, video footage and the center of the photos of the colombian fighters in the center of the online circulating the photo arrived shortly after the photo. . Times He was able to verify the position of a video, but not the identity of warriors.

Emirates repeatedly rejected support both sides in Sudan’s war and dismissed Sudan’s file as a fabrication.

Hospitals are an important target in conflict. Only one of the 200 medical facilities before the war in El Past remained – Al Saudi Hospital, where a handful of surrounded health workers were hanged, despite the bombs, hunger and disappearing medicine source.

The worst strike targeted 30 times in the war says that Suleman, a senior doctor working there, where an RSF drone fired a missile in a crowded ward and killed 70 patients and staff.

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Now, during the bombing raids, doctors contain in the fox hole, and patients who are malnourished continue with animal feed, Suleman said that Suleman wanted to be identified with a name because he received death threats for his work.

Local animal feed ambazIt is a desperate solution, because especially in the rain, mushrooms tend to be contaminated. At least 18 calm died in the last weeks after eating ambazLocal intervention teams say.

“But there’s no other option, Sule Suleman says.

In recent weeks, the RSF pushed El Bas to Fasher and forced the Sudan army and allied ethnic militias to the northwest corner of the city. While fighting, RSF fighters targeted civilians from the Ethnic Zaghawa group, and human rights groups say that if they openly buy the city, an ethnic massacre increases their fears.

Salwa Ahmed, a university lecturer, tried to stay in front of the fight. As the RSF progressed, he fled his house, hurriedly in the streets full of the bodies of fell fighters. Finally, even if the bombs continued to fall nearby, it reached a safer place.

But now her husband is missing. He returned home a week ago to get some items. He hadn’t been back on Friday last week.

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“We don’t know if he’s dead or alive, or he says.

As the siege was bored, some residents missed a small amount of food and medicine to the city by mixing the soil bermin at night. But those caught by warriors face beating and threats. Recently, a video circulating on a telegraph channel managed by RSF supporters showed a man using a whip on a man of an RSF uniform man.

Diplomatic efforts to stop the fight gave a few results. On August 13, the UN Security Council reiterated the call of an end to the siege of El Pash two days after the RSF fighters were making a camp in the city and killing 57 people.

Three days later, RSF went back to the camp, this time he killed 32 people.

This article emerged at the beginning New York Times.

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