SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Middle East Eye - Sudan’s villages take up arms but powerless to stop RSF massacres
According to the Middle East Eye’s sources, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) massacre in Wad al-Noura village of Al-Jazira state was prompted by the militia’s fear of growing resistance.
An anonymous source who fled Al-Jazira for Al-Gadarif said “the people of al-Jazira have the right to defend themselves as long as the RSF want to kill them and the army is derelict in its duty to defend civilians and the entire country,” although he noted how the RSF overpowered them.
With other villages in Al-Jazira “subjected to vicious attacks in recent weeks,” Ahmed Mohamed, a resident of al-Duem in White Nile state, told MEE that the RSF attacked villages there too, with hundreds of youths forming defence groups known as the popular armed resistance.
MEE add that these groups deny the RSF’s accusations that they are backed by hardline Islamists.