Shocking Videos on the Atrocities of War and the Sudanese Army’s Responsibility
Sudanese were once again shocked by a video circulating on social media showing an armed group in military uniform mutilating a person wearing the Rapid Support Forces uniform, reminiscent of the slaughter of a sheep.
The video was shocking to those who watched it, as no one imagined things could escalate to this extent, and despite the brutality of the scene, the videographer appeared smiling as he pointed to his comrades mutilating the victim, saying, “This is the fate of the support,” referring to the Rapid Support Forces.
A group of human rights lawyers condemned the incident of staging the corpse of a deceased belonging to the Rapid Support Forces, calling it a war crime under international law.
The human rights group said in a statement that it “received with great dismay a video circulated on social media, revealing the levels of horror of the ongoing war in the country.”
The statement pointed out that “the video shows forces hanging a body wearing the Rapid Support Forces uniform, while tearing off the body parts and tearing its entrails, without any evidence of aerial or artillery bombardment, which clearly indicates that it was tortured and staged.”
The statement added that “these heinous and repeated acts of extrajudicial executions, torture, reflect a dangerous evolution in the course of the war, in contradiction with human values, respect for the dead, and the dignity of the body.”
The statement confirmed that such an act is considered a war crime under general international law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law, emphasizing that judicial conventions and treaties insist on respecting the rights of the deceased and prohibit their treatment in an undignified manner.
The statement added: “We strongly condemn the commission of such crimes and demand a comprehensive investigation and the prosecution of individuals responsible for them, urging the warring parties to abide by international humanitarian law and human rights, reminding them that such actions have disastrous social consequences.”
The incident of “mutilating limbs” follows a similar incident that occurred last February, the incident of “severed heads” also committed by a group affiliated with the Sudanese army, according to local reports.
The incident involved a video circulating on social media showing members of the Sudanese army portraying heads of individuals after their separation from their bodies, claiming that the deceased belonged to the Rapid Support Forces.
It later emerged that the victims were young civilians arrested in the city of Al-Obaid, in northern Kordofan, as they were heading to their hometown in Sinar State, but the group that arrested them cut off their heads and portrayed them as members of the Rapid Support Forces.
A local report described the perpetrators of this act as “Al-Burhan militias and terrorist remnants of the defunct regime,” accused of killing three people “on ethnic and regional grounds while staging their bodies.”
The incident was described as “a scene reminiscent of the criminal behavior of these extremist groups, contradicting ethics, decency, religion, and laws,” according to the statement.
The al-Bura’a brigades, a newly formed militia of fighters belonging to the “people of security,” the secret intelligence service of the dissolved National Congress Party, are currently fighting alongside the Sudanese army.
Since the outbreak of the war in Sudan on April 15 of last year, these Islamic groups have announced their involvement in fighting alongside the Sudanese army against the Rapid Support Forces.
Journalist Alaeldin Babiker believes that the groups committing these atrocious violations are extremist Islamist groups holding anti-human ideas.
He said that the extremist Islamists currently control the Sudanese military institution due to their domination of Sudan for 30 years.
He warned that leaving these people at large could give rise to groups even more extremist than what we see today, explaining that they consider beheading as a means of getting closer to God, just as the “Islamic State” did in several countries.
The “National Observatory for Human Rights in Sudan” has confirmed that civilians are subjected to beatings, torture, murder, and gruesome displays by extremist organizations, which operate hand in hand with the Sudanese army throughout the country.
The observatory stated on the “X” platform that it has documented the arrests of dozens of civilians by the brigades of the Islamic Movement, where the observatory attached a video showing a citizen being beaten and threatened with decapitation by an armed group in the Rabak locality in the White Nile State, under the control of the Sudanese army.
The observatory expressed deep concern about the serious violations suffered by innocent civilians at the hands of these extremist groups, calling on the international community, human rights organizations, and international organizations to condemn these acts targeting the Sudanese people in wide areas of the country.
