新湖畔网 （随信APP) | 活动人士称苏丹准军事组织袭击造成50人死亡

苏丹军队和准军事部队之间的战争使哈特姆和卡沙尔邦的人民流离失所，在苏丹东部的格达雷夫等待慈善机构的援助，日期为2023年12月30日-版权AFP/文件-

活动人士表示，苏丹准军事部队发动的一次单独袭击已造成至少50人死亡，他们围攻并袭击了卡沙尔邦的村庄。

准军事部队（RSF）自2023年4月以来就一直与苏丹正规军对抗，但最近几天加剧了对卡沙尔邦南部平民的暴力行径，此前他们在卡沙尔邦的指挥官叛逃到了军队。

Hasaheisa的抵抗委员会在周五晚些时候向法新社发表声明称，“al-Sariha和Azraq村庄遭到袭击”。

抵抗委员会补充说，在al-Sariha一带，袭击造成50人死亡，200多人受伤，报告称由于RSF的炮击和狙击手，“无法撤离受伤的村民”。

由于几乎完全的通讯中断，死亡人数是无法验证且通常很难收集的。

抵抗委员会表示，附近的Azraq村被实施“全面包围，受到与al-Sariha相同的侵犯”，尽管无法提供死亡人数。

周五，苏丹医生工会呼吁联合国敦促开辟安全的人道主义通道进入“面临RSF团体种族灭绝”的村庄。

医生工会补充说，救援行动已经不可能进行，且“军队无法保护平民”。

根据几个村庄的医疗消息来源，几乎所有能够接收急救病例的医疗设施都被迫关闭。

苏丹的战争已经造成成千上万人死亡，一些估计称有15万人死亡。

联合国称这是世界上规模最大的流离失所危机，有超过700万人流离失所。

今年6月，美国驻联合国大使琳达·托马斯-格林菲尔德表示，苏丹是地球上“最大的人道主义危机”。

今年7月，在苏丹西部达尔富尔地区与乍得接壤的El-Fasher镇附近的Zamzam难民营宣布进入饥荒状态。

—地区影响—

上周日，军方宣布准军事部队的卡沙尔邦指挥官阿布·阿卡拉·凯卡尔已经脱离准军事部队，带来“大批部队”，这被认为是其首次高调叛变至军队。

活动人士报道称，随后在卡沙尔邦东部发生的准军事部队袭击中至少有20人死亡。他们还表示，苏丹军队对该邦首府瓦德马达尼的一座清真寺进行空袭，造成31人死亡。

在周四，邻国乍得否认帮助准军事部队武装，苏丹达尔富尔地区州长米尼·米纳维指责他们这样做。

乍得外交部长阿卜杜尔曼·科乐马拉表示，“乍得对于加剧苏丹的战争没有兴趣”，指出乍得是“其中少数因此战争受到重大影响的国家之一”。

苏丹当局此前声称乍得正在协助阿拉伯联合酋长国向苏丹运送武器，而乍得和阿联酋均予以否认。

国际货币基金组织非洲主任凯瑟琳·帕蒂洛本周告诉法新社，苏丹的战争可能会对其已经陷入困境的邻国造成严重经济损害。

“再加上难民、安全问题和贸易问题的冲击，对于它们的增长来说是非常具有挑战性的，”她说。

People from Khartoum and al-Jazira states, displaced by the war between Sudan's army and paramilitaries, wait to receive aid from a charity organization in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 30, 2023 - Copyright AFP/File -

At least 50 people have been killed in a single attack by Sudanese paramilitaries who have besieged and raided villages in al-Jazira state, activists said.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been at war with Sudan’s regular army since April 2023 but have in recent days intensified their violence against civilians in al-Jazira, south of the capital Khartoum, after their commander in the state defected to the army.

“The villages of al-Sariha and Azraq have been under attack” since Friday morning, the resistance committee in Hasaheisa, one of hundreds of volunteer groups coordinating aid in Sudan, said in a statement to AFP late on Friday.

In al-Sariha alone, the attack killed 50 and wounded more than 200, the resistance committee added, reporting a total “inability to evacuate the wounded from the village due to the shelling and snipers” from the RSF.

With a near-total communications blackout, tolls are impossible to verify and often hard to gather.

The resistance committee said that the nearby village of Azraq had been placed under a “total siege, suffering the same violations as al-Sariha”, although it was not possible to provide a death toll.

On Friday, the Sudanese doctors’ union called on the United Nations to press for safe humanitarian corridors into villages that “are facing genocide at the hands of the Rapid Support militia”.

The doctors’ union added that rescue operations had become impossible and that “the army is incapable of protecting civilians”.

According to medical sources in several villages, nearly all health facilities capable of receiving emergency cases have been forced shut.

The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people, with some estimates of 150,000 dead.

It has also caused what the UN calls the world’s largest displacement crisis, with more than seven million uprooted.

In June, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States ambassador to the UN, said Sudan is the planet’s “largest humanitarian crisis”.

Famine was declared in July in the Zamzam camp for displaced people near the town of El-Fasher, in Sudan’s western Darfur region bordering Chad.

– Regional impact –

Last Sunday the army announced that the RSF’s al-Jazira commander Abu Aqla Kaykal had abandoned the paramilitaries, bringing “a large number of his forces” with him, in what it said was the first high-profile defection to its side.

Activists reported at least 20 people killed in subsequent paramilitary attacks in eastern al-Jazira. They also said an air strike by the Sudanese Armed forces on a mosque in the state capital, Wad Madani, killed 31 people.

On Thursday, neighboring Chad denied helping to arm the paramilitaries after the governor of Sudan’s Darfur region, Minni Minnawi, accused them of doing so.

“Chad has no interest in amplifying the war in Sudan,” said Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah, pointing out that Chad was “one of the rare countries upon which this war has had major repercussions”.

Sudanese authorities have previously charged that Chad was facilitating the delivery of weapons from the United Arab Emirates to Sudan, which both Chad and the UAE have denied.

The International Monetary Fund’s director for Africa, Catherine Pattillo, told AFP this week that the war in Sudan was likely to cause heavy economic damage to its already struggling neighbors.

“And then to be confronted with the refugees, the security issues, the trade issues, is very challenging for their growth,” she said.