The Dar Hamar Emergency Room reported on Wednesday that cases of mass enforced disappearances have occurred in Sudan’s West Kordofan State, accusing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of detaining large numbers of young men and travelers attempting to flee conflict zones and forcibly transferring them to unknown locations.
According to the group, RSF fighters detained thousands of civilians along the road linking Wad Banda and Ayal Bakhit before forcibly relocating them to the city of En Nahud in West Kordofan.
The emergency room expressed deep concern over what it described as “grave violations” against civilians and demanded information about the fate of the abducted individuals taken to undisclosed sites. It described the situation as “mass abduction and silent liquidation.”
It added that those detained were transported “in a humiliating manner” to join other civilians who had been held earlier, with no reliable information available regarding their conditions or whereabouts.
The statement noted that this incident comes just five days after the abduction of approximately 5,000 young men from the same area, whose fates remain unknown amid growing fears for their safety. Leaked information, it said, suggests that some of those individuals might have been executed, while others were transferred to secret detention facilities.
Repeated Accusations Against the RSF
The Dar Hamar Emergency Room held local RSF commanders fully responsible for the safety of the detainees and called for the immediate disclosure of their whereabouts and the release of those transferred to En Nahud. It urged local and international human rights organizations to act urgently to inspect suspected detention sites and possible mass burial locations.
Last Wednesday, the RSF carried out a wide-scale campaign of arrests targeting unarmed civilians in the Um Jack and Gad Allah areas of West Kordofan. The emergency room reported that RSF members extorted the families of detainees, demanding large sums of money in exchange for their release.
According to the same source, the RSF also forcibly transferred around 40 young men from its prisons in En Nahud last Wednesday, reportedly moving them toward Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State. Two days later, RSF forces set up new checkpoints and carried out further arrests in Wad Banda, targeting young men en route to artisanal mining areas.
These developments come amid intensified military operations across the Kordofan states.
Escalation Around El-Obeid and South Kordofan
In a related development, the Sudanese army announced that it had carried out drone strikes targeting RSF positions around El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan. The army said these sites were used for gathering troops and supplies as new reinforcements arrived. Meanwhile, the RSF reportedly shelled the city of Dilling, the second largest city in South Kordofan, which has been under siege by RSF and allied forces from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North (SPLM-N) faction led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu for more than two years.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday that 430 people had fled the cities of Kadugli and Dilling in South Kordofan over the past two days due to insecurity and continuing military operations.
The Sudanese Doctors’ Union also announced that major hospitals in Dilling had gone out of service due to sustained artillery bombardment, leading to a severe deterioration in the local health situation and a sharp decline in the availability of essential medical services for residents.
Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi / Al-Yurae