Staff Writer
According to the UN, at least 87 people’s bodies have been interred in a mass grave in Darfur, who were allegedly executed by paramilitary groups and their collaborators in Sudan last month.
These victims, according to reliable evidence received by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, were killed between June 13 and June 21 in the El-Geneina capital city’s Al-Madaress and Al-Jamarek neighborhoods. West Darfur State.
According to the UN statement, tribesmen from the Masalit were among those killed.
Since April 15, the army under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane has been at odds with the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (FSR) under General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo.
The two generals, who were formerly partners, are now competing for power and appear determined to take it by force. According to the UN, the local community was compelled to place the dead in the mass grave on the paramilitaries’ orders.
Volker Türk, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, says he “condemns in the strongest terms the killing of civilians and non-combatants” and is “appalled” by the lack of regard for the deceased, their families, and communities.
He demands that those accountable be brought to justice that “a rapid, thorough, and independent investigation” be conducted.
Many victims of the violence that followed the June 14 assassination of West Darfur Governor Khamis Abdullah Abakar, according to the UN, are among those killed after the RSF had him taken into custody.
Many bodies were left in the streets after the violence for several days, and witnesses told the High Commission that injured people could not be taken to hospitals. Because they couldn’t be treated, some people passed away.
In order to identify the deceased and repatriate their remains to their relatives, the High Commissioner requests that the paramilitaries “protect the dignity” of the dead and list all the information at their disposal.
The paramilitary leaders are also urged by him “to put an end to violence and hate speech against people on the basis of their ethnicity.”
