Paramilitary hunters blood bends more than 100 citizens, says Doctors Group

Paramilitary troops killed more than 100 civilians on Thursday in an attack on a city in South Sudan, according to an association of doctors, in the last large-scale accusation of an atrocity of the country civil war.

The paramilitary hunters, called the Rapid Support Forces, said on Thursday that they had attacked the city of Nahud, which had been held by the Sudanese army along a highway that connects the territory that it has with Darfur – a Western region that has become a stronghold for the rapid strikers.

At least 542 citizens were killed in the region in just three weeks, said the UN human rights chef, Volker Türk on Thursday, adding that the real toll is probably much higher.

“The horror that unfolds in Sudan knows no limits,” he said in one rack About the war. “My fears are all the greater considering the ominous warning by the RSF of ‘bloodshed’ prior to threatening fights.”

The Sudanese army rode rapid prospects hunters From Khartoem, the capital of the country, in March, But since then the paramilitary group declared her own government In the areas that it checks and it pressed a great offensive to grab very Darfur.

The Arts Group, the Sudan Doctors Network, said Those rapid strikes hunters had a “large -scale massacre” performed in Nahud on Thursday evening, with 21 children and 15 women among the dead. The group said that the troops had also looted a medical stock warehouse, markets, pharmacies and a hospital.

The attack “discovered the city of its last way of health care and stopped medical services for many patients and wounded people who trust them,” the group said on social media.

The toll did not include military staff and would probably get up, the group added.

The Sudan War Monitor, a group of journalists and researchers who follow the civil war, now the third year, said the Sudanese army had Lost the city on ThursdayLeaving without an important hub to push the territory of Rapid Support in Darfur in Darfur.

A Sudanese military spokesperson, Nabil Abdallah, denied that Naud had fallen from the rapid support troops and said that the army still controlled the city, according to the war monitor.

Thursday’s attack came when the rapid striking forces came to El Fasher, the last big city in Darfur, Drongen who does not control it, and if the Sudanese army and the rapid prospects are confronted with new accusations of atrocities.

Last month, Assistance groups and the United Nations said Those rapid strict forces hunters hunters killed the entire staff of a medical clinic in a camp affected by famine in Darfur, in which hundreds were killed and no fewer than 400,000 others force To flee the camp.

Despite the rapid support troops from the capital and the insistence of officials such as Mr. Türk, from the UN, and others, many diplomats and care providers believe that the end of the war is far from sight.

The war started Like an alliance between the army and the rapid vast forces, crumbled off In 2023. The declaration of the paramilitary group of a parallel government, in the western and southern regions that it controls, has called for the fear of a long -term distribution of the vast African nation in the line of the disastrous split in Libya since 2011.