December 10, 2024 (NAIROBI) –  The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed scores of civilians, and injured, raped and abducted many others in waves of attacks in Habila and Fayu, two towns in Sudan’s South Kordofan state between December 2023 and March 2024, a rights group said on Tuesday. The attacks on mainly ethnic Nuba residents, Human Rights Watch said, constitute war crimes. “The Rapid Support Forces’ abuse of civilians in South Kordofan is emblematic of continuing atrocities across Sudan,” Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, a senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch said, adding “These new findings underscore the urgent need for the deployment of a mission to protect civilians in Sudan.” According to the rights entity, the attacks which occurred had not been widely reported. Researchers at Human Rights Watch reportedly visited South Kordofan areas controlled by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North (SPLM-N), interviewing several displaced people. The displacement followed clashes between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). According to the rights group, it researchers interviewed 70 displaced people, 40 of them survivors of RSF attacks on Habila, Fayu, and neighboring villages. The further analyzed satellite imagery of the area from December 2023 to October 2024. Also interviewed …

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