If one focuses carefully on the satellite images of the mass killings in Sudanhe will see that the sand has been dyed red with blood.
The recently published satellite images are revealing details of the bloodshed in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in Sudan, after it was captured by the Rapid Support Force (RSF) of the African country after an 18-month siege.
The images, analyzed by Yale University’s Humanities Research Laboratory and published by the Telegraph, they show pools of blood and piles of corpses visible from space – a stark testament to what international observers and local witnesses describe as one of the deadliest episodes of violence in Sudan.
The images confirm reports that over 2,000 civilians – mostly women, children and the elderly – were executed by RSF fighters after the city was captured.
The sand around them is visibly stained red, which analysts say indicates extensive bloodshed. According to the Telegraph, the pools of blood are so large and thick that they are visible from space.
Sudan: Maxar satellite images confirm mass killings at RSF-controlled sites in El Fasher including the former Children’s and Saudi Hospitals and along the RSF-built sand berm encircling the city.
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The forces, accused by regional governments and international organizations of committing atrocities “close to genocide”, reportedly carried out house-to-house raids and summarily executed residents who tried to flee.
Appeal from WHO
The World Health Organization has called for a ceasefire in Sudan after reports of death of at least 460 people in a maternity hospital in El Faser.
The WHO is “deeply concerned by reports of the tragic killing of more than 460 patients and their attendants at the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, following the recent attacks and kidnapping of health workers,” said WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Cease fire!” he added.
After the capture of El Faser the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) now control all of Darfur, that large region of western Sudan that makes up a third of the country. The DTY, under the command of General Mohamed Daglo, has installed a parallel government in Darfur, rivaling that of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Together with their allies, they also control a part of the south. The army controls the north, east and central regions of the country.
Experts fear a new partition of Sudan and a repeat of the massacres that bloodied Darfur at the beginning of the century.
“All attacks against health infrastructure must stop immediately, unconditionally. All patients, workers and nursing institutions must be protected, based on international humanitarian law,” Gebregesus stressed.
Not counting the attack on the maternity hospital, since the beginning of the conflicts, in April 2023, the WHO has recorded 185 attacks against health facilities, in which 1,204 people were killed and 416 injured. This year alone there were 49 attacks, with a total of 966 deaths.