NOTE from Sudan Watch Editor: Every week I read hundreds of news reports and thousands of socials commenting on Sudan and South Sudan.
Most of it is propaganda, self-serving promo, activism, lazy journalism, AI. Little hard news coming out of Sudan is made public. Khartoum's destroyed.
People in organisations such as the UN can’t speak out, others work quietly in Port Sudan or neighbouring countries. Aid agencies must remain neutral.
This report by France 24 acts as a powerful witness to the pain and despair of long-suffering Sudanese facing a bleak future. It reduced me to tears.
Much of the report is from Chad. Let's hope readers will view it more than once and listen closely to those who've been brave enough to be filmed.
Note, the report says "accounts are reminiscent of the atrocities committed during the 2003-2013 war in Darfur". In reality, the Darfur war never ended.
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Report from REPORTERS France 24 English
Anchor MARK OWEN @markowenf24
Nairobi correspondent ELODIE COUSIN @MlleCsn
Dated Friday, 01 December 2023, 13:23 - here is a copy in full:
Stories of horror: Investigating a massacre in Sudan's Darfur region
Since the start of Sudan's brutal civil war in April, mass killings of civilians have been perpetrated in the West Darfur region. Our team investigates atrocities committed against the local Masalit ethnic group.
Since the start of the war in Sudan on April 15, the capital Khartoum has been the scene of a deadly power struggle between warring generals Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan "Hemedti" Dagalo. But in the west of the country, in Darfur, a different horror is unfolding. Hemedti's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary and local Arab militia groups are systematically targeting the African Masalit ethnic group. Numerous videos have emerged of torture, massacres and arbitrary arrests. Refugees speak of sexual violence.
Our team went to the border between Chad and Sudan, where 450,000 people have taken refuge, to hear their stories. These accounts are reminiscent of the atrocities committed during the 2003-2013 war in Darfur, in which 300,000 people were killed, according to the UN. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has since opened an investigation into war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the main military leaders of the time.
Our Nairobi bureau brings us this special report.
View original: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/reporters/20231201-stories-of-horror-investigating-a-massacre-in-sudan-s-darfur-region or https://f24.my/9yI7
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