The head of the Sudan RSF promises to investigate that the anger over the killing of El-Fasher

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The head of the Sudan RSF promises to investigate that the anger over the killing of El-Fasher

The leader of the rapid support force in Sudan (RSF) announced that he is investigating what he called the violations committed by his soldiers during the capture of El-Fasher.

The announcement by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, came after reports of killings following the RSF’s capture of a town in Darfur region on Sunday.

He spoke after rejecting an international report on reports of mass killings in El-Fasher, apparently documented by his paramilitary fighters in social media videos.

But the country’s chief human rights officer, Tom Fletcher, said the RSF’s assurance that it would protect citizens against opposition elements and “fake news” was coming out of the region.

“There must be accountability for those who commit murder and sexual violence. For those who give orders. And those who provide weapons must consider their security responsibility during the emergency in Sudan.

The crisis caused by the war between the army and the RSF, which is in its third year, was also a “problem of neglect”, he said.

Earlier, British Foreign Minister Stephen Doughty said that the UK was announcing the meeting because “the scale of suffering is unattainable, often faced with unproven violence, and there is evidence that defenseless citizens are being victimized and abused”.

The Security Council has now issued a statement condemning the attack on El-Fasher, calling for a safe haven for those trying to flee the city and re-establish the RSF government.

BBC Confirm analyzed the footage posted by El-FASHER confirming that it shows RSF soldiers evicting a number of unarmed people in the city.

An opposition spokesman has since rejected further allegations that the RSF killed 400 people at a hospital in the city on Tuesday.

This group has disputed the widespread allegations that the killing of those in El-Fasher is motivated by law and follows the pattern of the Arab corridors.

Memedti said he apologized for the tragedy that befell the people of El-Fasher and admitted that it was a violation by his forces, which will be investigated by the committee that has arrived now.

However, observers say that similar promises made in the past – in response to the alleged massacre of people in the Darfuri town of El-geneina in 2023, and the alleged comments of the Gezira provincial party – have not been fulfilled.

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said it was surprised and shocked by the reports that more than 460 patients, including patients and their friends, in the last working hospital, in the last working hospital in El-Fasher.

Analysts from the Lale Cushwanarian Lab say satellite images that appear to show powerful ethnic groups in hospitals include accounts.

But an RSF spokesman insisted that residents had fled and no hospitals were operating when the social group seized the village last weekend.

Mohamed Faisal, spokesman for The Sudan Doctors Network in the UK, said their teams on the ground confirmed the attack on El-Fasher’s Saudi hospital as seen on Social Media Potage.

“What we have seen is absolutely disgusting,” he told the BBC’s Newsday programme.

“RSF soldiers entered the wards and killed inpatients and exits and killed people waiting to be seen in the clinics – a lot of people.”

Dr. Faisal said it was the worst three days for his colleagues, some of whom managed to escape, made a dangerous journey to the town of Tawila, about 37 kilometers) west of El-Fasher.

Others are in El-Fasher, where an estimated 250,000 people, many from non-Arab communities, are trapped during the RSF blockade.

From the statistics of the Sudan Doctors Network, they put together a picture of those killed in the hospital in 450.

“200 epatients were killed and 250 were among the healers and people who visited the hospital,” said Dr. Faisal.

Throughout the 550 days of the siege, the RSF kept a close watch on the hospital, which has been facing cases of malnutrition, he said.

“Air drone strikes and artillery shelling” at the center have increased over the past few months, he added.

About 5,000 people who arrived in Tawila from El-Fasher in recent days, were severely tortured and very weak, violence by trauma, according to the route of the caroline group.

“We have had many confirmations of rape and gender-based violence,” he told BBC Newsday, adding that they had also confirmed recent accounts of killings.

Activists have also brought in demands for international pressure on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is widely accused of providing military advice to the RSF.

The UAE denies this despite the evidence being presented to the UN.

El-Fasher was on the last front of the war in the West Darfur region, and was captured by the RSF after a long siege marked by starvation and heavy bombing.

El-Fasher’s takeover reinforces the country’s divisions in the country, with the RSF now in control of Western Sudan and Kordofan in the far south, while the army controls the capital, Khartoum, in the center and in the East.

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The two warring rivals have also previously partnered – coming to power together in 2021 – but fell short of the internationally-backed plan to go to civilian rule.

The statement of the Security Council received the demands made by the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, which wanted to open the celebration of life in order to allow the help of those in El-Fasher and a close investigation to bring those responsible for the atrocities.

“The investigation itself right now will not bring those living in dire conditions in Sudan, which is the worst human condition,” Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Chairman of the AU panel on Sudan, told the BBC.

It has been more than 500 days since the people of El-Fasher and the surrounding areas “found hell on earth”, he said.

“We have said time and time again that there is no military solution to the Sudanese crisis, and that is why we have been involved in working with civilians and politics to call out the bogus rhetoric of civilians.

“Now we need to work with Sudan to deal with the causes of their problem, they themselves agree to be taken out of Sudan for the crises that existed in 1956,” said Chambas.