Refugees wait for a food distribution point to open at a camp in Adré, Chad, on 22 April. More than 8 million people have been displaced since fighting erupted between the RSF and Sudan’s military in April 2023.Refugees wait for a food distribution point to open at a camp in Adré, Chad, on 22 April. More than 8 million people have been displaced since fighting erupted between the RSF and Sudan’s military in April 2023.
One of the worst episodes of Sudan’s civil war was in June when the RSF and its allies attacked a kilometres-long convoy of civilians as people tried to leave El Geneina, escorted by Masalit fighters.Witnesses told HRW researchers that the RSF had chased, rounded up and shot men, women and children who ran through streets or attempted to swim the fast-flowing seasonal Kaja River that cuts through the city. Many drowned.
“Then they piled up the children and shot them,” he said. “They threw their bodies into the river and their belongings in after them.”