The military bombing Sudan kills dozens of the market attack in Darfur

Air Force by the Sudan army exploded in a crowded market in the western region of Darfur in the country, killing at least 54 people and wounding dozens of other, according to local observation groups, which described the attack as a possible war crime.

The attack came on Monday, when the army in Sudan continued to achieve comprehensive gains in the capital, Khartoum, as it seized the presidential palace on Friday. The army is now trying to lead its enemy, the semi -military rapid support forces, completely outside the city.

The brutality was reported in Darfur, though, as a dark reminder of the brutal cracking of the Sudan war, the largest in Africa, where it approaches two years. Videos and photographs of the strike in Tora, a small town in North Darfur, showed dozens of charred bodies and partial human residues scattered through the extension of a preserved in the city market.

Geologited videos are manufactured to Toura by Sudan Witnesses Project At the center of information flexibility, a non -profit organization that documents potential war crimes. Satellite and data from NASA, which discover fires, confirmed that an area of ​​about 10,000 square meters was burned on Monday.

The number of losses was unclear. A Sudanese surveillance group said dozens were killed. Avaaz International Avaz Group, a local groups, has placed more than 200 dead. The handwritten death list presented by activists in Darfur was 54 names.

Witnesses said that the attack came from the air. The fast support forces do not have warplanes, but the Sudanese army is doing, and it has carried out other air strikes in the area recently.

In a statement, the army said that any allegations that the attack was a atrocity committed against civilians “completely false and repeatedly grew up when our forces exercise their constitutional and legitimate right to involve hostile goals.”

The army statement said, “We accurately adhere to targeting protocols according to international law,” and they continued to accuse the rapid support forces of “systematically attacking civilians since the outbreak of the war.”

The sprawling Sudanese civil war forced nearly 13 million people from their homes since it started in April 2023, and has caused many thousands of deaths, according to United Nations and Western countries. Parts of the country in famine. Both sides were accused of atrocities.

The Rapid Support Forces faced the most repeated accusations of brutality, including the charges of the United States, genocide Ethnic massacres It is implemented by the forces of the forces in Darfur.

However, the army was repeatedly accused of the indiscriminate bombing in areas kept by the fast support forces, and dozens of people are often killed at the same time. Most of these attacks also occurred in Darfur.

The narrator said One drawing video While he was walking through the strike massacre in Tora on Monday. “They have no affiliation” with any of the sides.

An analysis of the Times, which shows several pockets of burned land throughout the market, indicates the presence of multiple explosions. In video It was filmed in the sceneOne of the witnesses said that four missiles hit the market, hit its position and three beating.

Emergency lawyers, a Sudanese group documenting atrocities on both sides of the war, described it as a “horrific massacre” and a possible war crime.

In Khartoum, army officers said on Tuesday that the paramilitary forces withdrew from Buri, a major neighborhood between the Nile and the main international airport.

On the city’s walk in the city center with the Sudanese forces, the Times passed through the streets full of debris and charred vehicles, and lined up with the destroyed offices. Half of the decorative bodies are located at the traffic crossroads.

The explosions and fire repeated when the military forces sought to get rid of the last remaining pockets of RSF fighters in the area.

The commander of the region, the dean, said that it would likely take two weeks to lead the paramilitary forces from the city. General Yasser Hassan. He led the journalists to the armored cars that he said that the United Arab Emirates presented by RSF, the group’s main sponsor of the group.

General Hassan, the Emirates, which denies the support of RSF as “Statelet of Evil”-described an unusually harsh language between the friendly Arab countries that were referring to the deep divisions caused by the Sudan War.

The bombing in Darfur was a pessimism towards the future war.

If RSF is removed from Khartoum, it is possible that it will retreat to Darfur, as it promised to create a parallel government. This raises the possibility of Sudan dividing between competing departments, such as Libya since the Arab Spring in 2011.

Analysts say RSF is also likely to intensify its efforts to seize El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, whose forces were besieged for about a year, and as famine is also consuming.

Reports previously contributed Diclican Walsh and Abdalrahman altayeb From Khartoum, Sudan, and Abu Bakr Abdabaji and Christophe Quittel From New York.