Sudan's paramilitary group accused of killing, forcibly drawing blood from civilians fleeing besieged city
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias are killing, kidnapping, and forcibly drawing blood from civilians trying to flee the North Darfur capital, El Fasher, a Sudanese news outlet, Sudan Tribune, reported on Saturday.
It quoted survivors as saying the attacks on the road to the town of Tawila have led to multiple deaths, they said. Tawila, the destination for most people fleeing the violence, now shelters over 500,000 displaced people facing severe humanitarian conditions.
Sudan Tribune said survivors and eyewitnesses reported that the alleged crimes included murder, arbitrary detention, and drawing blood from captives without medical precautions. Three survivors who reached Tawila said that at least 10 civilians died shortly after having their blood taken.
The news outlet also quoted Mohammed Khamis Doudah, a spokesman for displaced people at Zamzam camp, as saying the violence on the route has escalated. He said the RSF and its allies killed about 15 civilians on the road in the last 2 weeks.
Doudah accused the allied Tasis alliance, the political umbrella of the parallel government formed by the RSF in areas it controls, of luring people out of El Fasher to be captured for ransom. He also said the RSF has set up field hospitals in Zamzam camp, which it converted into a military barracks, to take blood from healthy young men to treat its own wounded fighters.
A spokesman for the Abu Shouk camp also reported that an emergency team had documented the bodies of nearly 90 people executed on the El Fasher-Tawila road, which residents now call the “road of death”.
He said the RSF controls all exit routes from El Fasher and that about 60% of those who tried to flee recently were killed on suspicion of supporting the Sudanese army. Those killed included people trying to return to the city to rescue relatives, whom the RSF accused of smuggling goods.
The RSF and the Tasis coalition have designated the Gurney area, at El Fasher’s western gate, as a collection point for fleeing civilians, from which they are supposed to be moved to other territories.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) that controls the capital, Khartoum, on Saturday announced the formation of a security committee with a raft of new measures for the city.
These include a ban on carrying weapons in public and the use of unlicensed vehicles. It also urged citizens not to engage with undocumented foreigners.
Sudan Tribune said the move comes amid a rise in armed looting and murder in the city as authorities work to rebuild infrastructure and restore basic services following a period of control by RSF.
Defence Minister Hassan Daoud Kabroun, who heads the committee, said the measures were aimed at “stabilising the security situation and re-establishing state authority”.
He added in a statement that a ban on motorcycles and unlicensed cars was due to their use in most reported robberies.
Kabroun also called on citizens to avoid dealing with foreigners who lack residency documents, citing the country’s “state of war”.
The authorities have recently relocated many foreigners, particularly refugees from South Sudan, to border camps after accusing some of fighting with the RSF against the national army.
-0- PANA MA 7Sept2025
