Crawling to escape slaughter, people flee Sudan paramilitary group on their hands and knees

[sarisataka]

Crawling to escape slaughter, people flee Sudan paramilitary group on their hands and knees

Malnourished and dehydrated people are crawling through the desert on their elbows and knees in constant terror of being caught by fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), humanitarian organizations have warned.

The journey from the RSF-controlled city of el-Fasher to the town of Tawila is just 30 miles, but nonetheless perilous as gunmen rove around, robbing people, taking them hostage and in some cases slaughtering them by the dozen, the organizations say.

Under international pressure, the RSF said Thursday that it was willing to engage in a U.S.-brokered humanitarian ceasefire. But the Sudanese military, which it has been fighting since April 2023, has yet to agree to a truce, and the State Department has said it is still working to get both parties to agree to a pause in the fighting amid warnings from the humanitarian organizations that the northeast African nation is returning to its genocidal past.

While talks are ongoing, eyewitness accounts, videos shared to social media and an analysis of satellite imagery that has shown pools of blood visible from space have revealed the scale of the killing in the region and the increasing use of drone strikes by both sides as they seek to gain an advantage on the battlefield.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/africa/sudan-rapid-support-forces-paramilitary-army-el-fasher-slaughter-rcna242062

[JustAnotherGen]

1. It's Genocide

But it's Black people - so there won't be protests.

[sarisataka]

2. Or even interest...

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Where are the campus protests?

Where is the nagging harassment of JD Vance?

You know who I bet is horrified by it?

President Zelensky. But he's buried under a Russian invasion and 19K Ukrainian children kidnapped by the Russians invaders.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Indeed. Will we see candidate litmus tests? Is it progressive, after all

to care mostly about genocides that are TikTok influencer approved?

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Fair point

[Arazi]

6. And this thread will drop like a stone without hundreds of posts about every detail

[orangecrush]

3. Kick

[Solly Mack]

4. ...

[cliffside]

7. knr nt