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The Rapid Support Forces detained thousands, using hospitals and shipping containers as prisons, with at least 260 deaths during disease outbreaks, the UN reported.
- On October 26, survivors said the Rapid Support Forces' assault on El-Fasher, North Darfur detained thousands and a UN investigation found it bore the hallmarks of genocide, while the RSF controls the city with limited humanitarian access.
- Detainees included government workers, doctors, journalists, teachers and aid staff who were often held for ransom or accused of army affiliation, and on October 26, people fleeing the RSF's final assault were shot at, beaten and loaded into a Land Cruiser.
- Inside makeshift prisons, detainees faced severe deprivation and violence, with many held without food or water in El-Fasher Children's Hospital and about 70 shipping containers, enduring torture including fingernails ripped out, beatings, suspension, and sexual violence.
- Humanitarian agencies reported deadly conditions and mass movement of detainees as the UN recorded up to 40 deaths daily during a cholera-like outbreak killing 260, and transferred at least 6,000 detainees to Tagris prison, Nyala.
- Nearly three years into the RSF–army war, the UN rights office and London-based CIR verified testimony and satellite imagery documenting makeshift prisons, while aid access remains limited and Tawila shelters survivors.
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‘They beat us with whips’: Sudan RSF detainees tell of horrors in El-Fasher
TAWILA, March 23 — In the suffocating darkness of a sealed shipping container, every thud signalled to Ibrahim Noureldin that one more detainee had died in the crush as Sudanese paramilitary fighters kept forcing more men inside.Thousands of people are estimated to have been detained in the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) October takeover of North Darfur’s El-Fasher, a battle that a UN investigation found bore the “hallmarks of genocide”.“When peopl…
'They beat us with whips': RSF detainees tell of horrors in Sudan
In the suffocating darkness of a sealed shipping container, every thud signalled to Ibrahim Noureldin that one more detainee had died in the crush as Sudanese paramilitary fighters kept forcing more men inside. Thousands of people are estimated to have been detained in the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) October takeover of North Darfur’s El-Fasher, a battle that a UN investigation found bore the “hallmarks of genocide”. Makeshift prisons and labour…
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'They beat us with whips': Sudan RSF detainees tell of horrors in El-Fasher
In the suffocating darkness of a sealed shipping container, every thud signalled to Ibrahim Noureldin that one more detainee had died in the crush as Sudanese paramilitary fighters kept forcing more men inside.
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