Fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), rampaged through a central village, looting and burning and killing at least 85 people, including women and children, authorities and residents said on August 17, the latest atrocity in the country’s 18-month devastating conflict.
Describing the hours-long attack, residents said hundreds of RSF fighters stormed the village on August 15, looting and burning houses and public properties.
The RSF began attacking Galgani in the central province of Sennar late in July, and last week RSF fighters “indiscriminately opened fire on the village’s unarmed residents” after they resisted attempts to abduct and sexually assault women and girls, Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. More than 150 villagers were wounded, it said.
The RSF has been repeatedly accused of massacres, rapes, and other gross violations across the country since the war started in April last year, when simmering tensions between the military and the group exploded into open fighting in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere.
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