The head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group vowed on Wednesday that Sudan would be unified through “peace or through war”, after his forces captured a key city.<\/p>\n
“The liberation of El-Fasher is an opportunity for Sudanese unity, and we say: Sudanese unity through peace or through war,” Mohammad Hamdan Daglo said in a speech broadcast on his official Telegram channel, without specifying his location.<\/p>\n
His declaration came three days after RSF forces captured the strategic western city, giving them control of the vast region of Darfur.<\/p>\n
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Daglo’s rival and leader of the regular army, acknowledged on Monday that his troops had withdrawn.<\/p>\n
Daglo said that “we are sorry for the inhabitants of El-Fasher for the disaster that has befallen them” in the 18-month siege and final assault.<\/p>\n
“But… the war was forced upon us,” he added.<\/p>\n
The European Union had earlier accused the RSF of “brutality”, saying there was evidence of “civilians being targeted because of their ethnicity”.<\/p>\n
“Investigators have arrived in El-Fasher, and we uphold the law and require accountability from anyone who has made a mistake,” Daglo said, insisting that his forces were “peaceful people”.<\/p>\n
Videos of violence posted to social media, eyewitness testimony and satellite imagery have all stoked accusations of massacres in El-Fasher since RSF fighters took control.<\/p>\n
More than 36,000 people have fled the fighting since Sunday, most of them heading for the city’s outskirts and for Tawila 70 kilometres (43 miles) to the west.<\/p>\n
Over 650,000 displaced people were already sheltering in Tawila, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n
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