November 2, 2024 (EL FASHER)– The governor of Darfur and leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement, Minni Arko Minawi, accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of carrying out a massacre in at least one town and burning 20 villages in North Darfur state. Since mid-October, the RSF and allied militias have been conducting reprisal attacks against villages inhabited by the Zaghawa ethnic group in the Kutum locality of North Darfur. More than 45 villages have been burned, displacing residents to Chad. Community leaders from North Darfur told Sudan Tribune on Saturday that the preliminary death toll from the attack on the Bireidik area in Kutum locality has reached 12, with four injured and four others kidnapped. They indicated that the RSF attacked villages of the African Zaghawa ethnicity under the pretext that they support the joint force engaged in fierce battles against the RSF in North Darfur’s capital and other areas in the region. “What happened in the Bireidik area in North Darfur state is a crime added to the record of crimes against humanity, no less heinous than the massacres of Wad al-Noura and al-Sariha in Al Jazirah state,” Minawi said in a post on X, formerly known as …

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