Full Details of the Outlaw RSF Militia Crimes in the City of (Singa) in central Sudan (3-1)

 Investigation: Al-Taj Osman

On Saturday, July 29, none of the residents of the city of Singa, the capital of Sennar State, expected that their beautiful city would be invaded by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.. Until shortly before the  call (Adhan) to afternoon (Al-Asr) prayer , the city was living its normal life, but suddenly and without warning, chaos and panic prevailed among the citizens.

The following field investigation discloses, in three episodes, the facts and details of the crimes outlaw RSF militia committed against the citizens of the city of Singa and the plundering of their property.

Girls of Al-Gaili Area

One of the most tragic scenes I witnessed in the northern neighborhood of Sinja, a family of (8) individuals, including four sister girls who had come to Sinja months ago as displaced persons from their area of ​​Al-Gaili in the northern countryside of Khartoum Bahri. I saw them running, confused and terrified, because of the intense shelling of the city and fear of being arrested by the militia members, knowing very well what they would do to them. I was driving my car, so I stopped for them and they asked me to save them from the hell that was besieging them. Before I could talk to them, they opened the car doors and quickly rode. I do not know how the car, which does not have a capacity of more than four people, accommodated them. Quickly, I headed with them towards the dirt bridge that protects Singa from the flood and leads to Singa Bridge. Luckily for them, I saw a pick-up vehicle on the bridge without passengers, so I asked the driver to take them out of the city. Before he could give his approval, they jumped on the vehicle one by one and were rescued by crossing the Singa Bridge to Al-Dindir safely, from where, as I later learned, they headed to the city of Gedaref.

Random Shooting

Before leaving the city, I saw a large number of RSF militia members riding motorcycles shooting randomly at innocent defenseless citizens, some of whom were killed and wounded. I took cover from the bullets that were flying everywhere, along with a number of citizens in a room in one of the houses directly overlooking the dirt bridge.

Panic and Drowning

A mass exodus of the invaded city’s residents occurred. Thousands of citizens were in a state of panic crossing the Singa Bridge linking the eastern and western banks of the Blue Nile, which leads to the city of (Al-Dindir) in the north, (Al-Damazin), the capital of the Blue Nile State in the east, and the villages of (Karkoj) in the south. At that time, I witnessed and monitored tragic scenes among the city’s residents inside the bridge as they tried to leave the city to avoid the random shelling of the RSF militias and escape death and save their families. A wave of crying and panic overcame children and women. I saw a number of patients, elderly people and children being transported by a single wheel barrows, pushcarts, (locally named dardagat, plural of dardaga, which are usually used for garbage collection), across the bridge to safety. Some of them crossed Al-Dindir River (swimming) and (wading) before it was completely submerged by water, and they were carrying their young kids on their backs and heads for fear of drowning. A number of citizens chose to leave Singa across the Blue Nile to the (Mina) area on the eastern bank by traditional boats and small motorized boats; which unfortunately caused a significant number of citizens to drown due to its overload of people, which is also added to the other several crimes committed by the insurgent RSF militia against the people of Singa.