Sudan: Sudanese army commits massacre against civilians after the fall of El-Fasher

A shocking video circulated by the media and social networks shows Sudanese army soldiers beheading unarmed civilians in the city of El-Obeid, in North Kordofan state, in an escalation that observers describe as retaliation for the fall of the city of El-Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces.

The video shows soldiers executing civilians in the style of the Islamic State (Daesh) terrorist group. Local sources said the victims belong to tribes considered loyal to the Rapid Support Forces, while racist and regionalist chants can be heard in a shocking scene that reflects the collapse of military discipline and the transformation of the war into a series of vendettas on the ground.

Local Sudanese sources confirmed that some of the violations previously attributed to the Rapid Support Forces in El-Fasher were in fact perpetrated by militias and Islamist battalions allied with the army, including the Al-Baraa ibn Malik Battalion and the Popular Defense Forces, which had already been implicated in mass executions in Khartoum, Jebel Aulia, and Darfur.

Sudanese activists who released the video called for an urgent international investigation, warning that the continuation of this type of violence could drag Sudan into a spiral of widespread ethnic revenge, which would seriously endanger the civilian population and intensify tribal and political divisions in the country.