Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces stand accused of systematic abuse against civilians. Torture with iron rods, deliberate starvation, and overcrowded cells. Hospitals in Omdurman now treat dozens rescued from RSF facilities like Soba Prison. Mass graves discovered in recaptured compounds suggest many perished from torture.
KHARTOUM APRIL 23: Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stand accused of systematic abuse against civilians, with harrowing accounts emerging from their detention centres. Survivors describe torture with iron rods, deliberate starvation, and overcrowded cells where detainees slept on infected wounds.
Hospitals in Omdurman now treat dozens rescued from RSF facilities like Soba Prison, where thousands were allegedly held in inhuman conditions. Mass graves discovered in recaptured compounds suggest many perished from torture or neglect under RSF custody.
While some detainees have been freed since the army regained control of Khartoum, countless families still search for missing relatives. The RSF’s alleged crimes – including executions and medical neglect – have left survivors with irreversible physical and psychological scars. As conflict persists, these revelations intensify calls for international scrutiny of the paramilitary group’s actions and accountability for victims.
The newly formed RSF government, the “Government of Peace and Unity”, has not yet explained how this benefits peace and unity. For example, have any of their government members been involved in torture?
According to Human Rights Watch, the scale and cruelty of the RSF’s sexual violence is staggering. Amnesty’s latest investigation uncovered the RSF’s widespread use of sexual violence as a weapon of war – rape, gang-rape, sexual slavery and torture – to control, punish and displace women and girls.
Since 15 April 2023, the SAF (led by Sudan’s Sovereign Council Head General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan) and the terrorist organisation RSF (led by the former camel herder Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti) have been fighting for control of Sudan.
