2023-08-03 19:43:25
“Death knocked at our door” titre The report of fifty pages published Thursday, August 3 by Amnesty International, the human rights NGO based in London. Built on the basis of 181 testimonies collected in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, in the Darfur region as well as in neighboring Chad, the text paints a chilling picture of “unimaginable horror” current events in the country.
On April 15, this country of 48 million inhabitants located south of Egypt tipped into civil war when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group created in 2013, tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the leader of State, Abdel Fattah Al Burhane. Since then, nearly 4,000 people have died in clashes between soldiers and paramilitaries and 4 million civilians have had to flee. War crimes have “generalized” and Amnesty International denounces “indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilian population”.
Civilians targeted
“Men, women and children are caught in the crossfire as both sides continue to engage in a war that has already claimed many civilian casualties,” announces the report.
He accuses both sides of doing “Show total disregard fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the deliberate targeting of civilians”. Testimonies of rape and sexual violence, constituting a war crime when committed in the context of an armed conflict, are numerous.
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