Sennar State… Tragic Examples of Janjaweed Victims

Investigation: Al-Taj Osman

The victims of the rebel militia in Sudan are countless since the outbreak of the war. Hundreds were killed by Janjaweed bullets in the states of Khartoum, Al-Gezira and Sennar, while thousands in Darfur were brutally liquidated, and some were buried alive…

The following investigation provides tragic examples of Janjaweed victims in Sennar State.

Aeronautical Engineer

Mohamed Musa Salih, a graduate of aeronautical engineering from the (I-Level) College. He worked in the presidential aviation and then left it to work in the private sector. He was displaced with his family to Singa after the war. After the Janjaweed invaded Singa, he refused to leave and preferred to stay to take care of his elderly grandfather and his uncle Sharaf al-Din. He returned to the house in the northern neighborhood to stay with his grandfather and uncle, who refused to leave as he was suffering from a surgery on his leg that made him unable to walk. So he carried him on his back and left the house with his grandfather. When the Janjaweed shelling intensified, he took them to a friend’s house, then returned to pick up his uncle’s children. Before he arrived, he was shot in the back by a militia soldier at close range, a few steps away from the house. He fell swimming in his blood and remained lying on the ground until noon the next day. That is meant, he remained there for more than ten full hours until some neighbors found his body and he was dead. He was buried in a grave in the street…

Dead Preparer

Mirghani Jaafar is the most famous dead preparer and grave digger in the state. One day, he went to the market to receive a sum of money via (Starlink), which is only available to the militia, who have taken the Singa taxi station as their headquarters. Some Janjaweed members monitor the citizens who receive the money transfers sent to them and send spies behind them to know the locations of their homes so that they can attack them at night and steal their money.

This is what happened to the most famous dead preparer and grave digger in Singa and its suburbs, the martyr Jaafar Mirghani. According to his wife, three drunken men entered the house with their weapons around 10 pm and demanded him he hand them over the money he received during the day from the popular market, but he refused and resisted them and said to them: (These are my petty cash and I will not give them to you). So one of them fired several bullets at his back, i.e. from behind, and he uttered his last breath immediately inside his house, may Allah have mercy on him.

The Martyr Doctor

As for the martyr, Dr. Khalid Al-Nour Farah, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology at Singa Teaching Hospital, he was staying in the doctors’ quarters near the hospital. After the Janjaweed took control of Singa city, a number of soldiers entered the quarters and looted his money and beat him severely, then left him between life and death to be transferred to Khartoum for treatment and to save his life. But he uttered his last breath on the way before arriving in Khartoum.

Death of Two Female Scientists

As for the citizens who died due to the suffering of displacement from Singa, we mention among them, for example, the two female scientists, Professor of Agriculture Faiza Abdullah Mohammed Osman Al-Nayir, who had been living in the eastern neighborhood for several months in the home of Abdul-Rahman Al-Nojumi with her two sisters, Amal, an anesthesiologist, and Dr. Fatima, a specialist with a doctorate in sociology. They are elderly and no one is with them because they are originally from Omdurman and were displaced from there to Singa because of the war. Therefore, I used to check on their conditions daily and they were in a pitiful state of exhaustion and fatigue after they left the moment of the bombing of Singa on their feet to the village of Al-Azzazah, east of Singa, on their way to Al-Dindir and from there to Al-Gadarif, but the journey overcame them due to their advanced age, so they returned home to Singa extremely exhausted. They remained alone in the house in the eastern district for three months, until they found a way to leave by a truck to Al-Salma neighborhood in Khartoum, and from there to Kassala, which they reached after a whole week in a state of illness and exhaustion. Due to the long and exhausting displacement journey, the professor of agriculture, Faiza, died in the city of Ad-Damar, and she was followed, about a month later, by her sister, Dr. Amal, the anesthesiologist, who died in Atbara Hospital and was buried next to her sister in Ad-Damar cemetery.