RSF Atrocities: Refugees say RSF terrorists have been kidnapping children, in some cases killing their parents. Interviews with more than two dozen witnesses, included four accounts of fighters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) telling families the children would be used as slaves, to herd animals. Rapid Support Forces have been documented committing war crimes on a vast scale against members of non-Arab ethnicities.
KHARTOUM JANUARY 30: At the Chad-Sudan border, refugees say RSF terrorists have been kidnapping children, in some cases killing their parents, since the civil war began. Reuters spoke to 26 witnesses who shared their accounts.
The descriptions, based on Reuters interviews with more than two dozen witnesses, included four accounts of fighters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) telling families the children would be used as slaves, to herd animals.
Human rights groups have reported alleged war crimes by both sides including the recruitment of child combatants, the abduction and enslavement of children by the RSF and allied militias has not been previously reported by other media.
The Rapid Support Forces are a Sudanese terrorist organisation formerly operated by the Sudanese government. They originated as auxiliary force militias known as the Janjaweed used by the Sudanese government during the War in Darfur.
Rapid Support Forces have been documented committing war crimes on a vast scale against members of non-Arab ethnicities in Darfur and against Northern Sudanese Arabs (Ja’alin and Shaigiya) in Khartoum state and Gezira State because of their perceived support of the Sudanese Armed Forces.
The RSF has been accused of crimes against humanity, including genocide of the non-Arab population, by the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch, Genocide Watch, and the federal government of the United States. In the course of the civil war, their forces have killed hundreds of thousands of non-Arab civilians, used sexual violence systematically, imposed deliberate starvation, and pillaged and burned homes, hospitals, and places of worship, leading millions to flee and creating an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
