PORT SUDAN: Sudanese paramilitaries have killed more than 200 people, including women and children, in a three-day assault on villages in the country's south, a lawyer group monitoring the war said on Tuesday. The Emergency Lawyers group, which documents rights abuses, said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked unarmed civilians in the villages of Al Kadaris and Al Khelwat, in White Nile state.
The RSF carried out "executions, kidnappings, enforced disappearances and property looting" during the assault since Saturday, which also left hundreds wounded or missing, it said. The lawyer group said some residents were shot at while attempting to flee across the Nile River. Some drowned in the process, with the lawyers calling the attack an act of "genocide".
Sudan's army-aligned foreign ministry said the death toll from the RSF attacks so far was 433 civilians, including babies. It called the assault a "horrible massacre". The war has killed tens of thousands, displaced over 12 million and created what the International Rescue Committee has called the "biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded". — AFP
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