Hundreds of dead bodies covered in flies in Darfur

Staff from Save the children who escaped from al geneina cityin the Sudan region Darfur (West)reported today that he had seen “the corpses of hundreds of people, including children, abandoned by the roadside, covered in flies”, while the UN said it had evidence of a mass grave of at least 87 people on the outskirts of the zone. .

“The staff said that there seemed to be no difference in the age or gender of the victims, and that the dead included children, women and men,” the NGO said in a statement, adding that eyewitnesses described “a terrifying picture of children, men and women being killed by the dozens, and armed men entered the villages, looted and burned houses and shot at the fleeing inhabitants”.

A large number of children and adults have reportedly been attacked as violence escalates in Darfur, doc Save the children makes an “urgent appeal to the parties to agree to an immediate cessation of hostilities after nearly three months of conflict,” the note said.

The NGO reported reports of “summary executions” and attacks on civilians on the road between Al Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, and the border with Chad.

Additionally, across Darfur, an increase in violence has severely limited access to humanitarian aid and “widespread destruction and destruction of civilian structures in Al Geneina, with schools attacked and destroyed, and at least 0.7 square kilometers affected or burned by fire, almost double the from the smallest country in the world, the Vatican,” says the non-governmental organization.

More than 3.1 million people have been displaced since violence escalated in April, according to the UN, including more than 700,000 who have fled to neighboring countries.

Information from Save the children On the same day, it was reported that the remains of at least 87 people from the Massalit ethnic group and others were buried in a mass grave in the suburb of Al Geneina after being killed on apparent orders from the paramilitary group Rapid Support Force (FAR)according to evidence gathered by the UN.

The massacre would have been committed between June 13 and 21, and the perpetrators would have been members of the FAR and the militias that support them in the dispute for power that confronts them with the army, with which they previously collaborated in the coup that ended in 2019 with the democratic transition which it was believed that Sudan would embark on.

The FAR have been facing off since last April with the Sudanese army, in a conflict that has its main focal points in the capital Khartoum and Darfur.

As of 2019, Massalit and other non-Arab communities, many of whom were displaced after conflict in the early 2000s, have borne the brunt of attacks by FAR-backed Arab militias.