Darfur Popular Resistance: Militia Executed the Wounded in Cold Blood and Burned the Injured Alive in El-Fashir

The Popular Resistance in North Darfur has downplayed the visit by United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown to El-Fashir, saying it came too late and after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia had erased evidence of crimes committed against civilians.

In a statement issued to local and international public opinion, Popular Resistance spokesperson Abubakr Ahmed Imam said the visit “lacked meaning and real impact,” arguing that it should have taken place at the height of shelling and siege, not after the state had been exhausted and the city largely destroyed.

The statement, obtained by Sudanese Echoes, said the UN official’s visit was limited to specific locations pre-agreed with the RSF militia—according to acknowledgments by the UN mission itself—preventing a full assessment of the humanitarian situation and grave violations in the city.

Imam added that the visit did not include key sites reflecting the scale of crimes, including Shala Prison, the Children’s Hospital, and Zamzam camp, which he said had been converted into a militia-run facility. Visiting those sites, he said, would have exposed facts that cannot be concealed and documented the suffering of civilians and detainees.

The statement noted that Brown acknowledged during the visit that El-Fashir had become a “ghost city and a crime scene,” with residents living in “degrading and unsafe conditions,” suffering from famine and a lack of water and sanitation services.

Imam said this UN assessment aligns with documentation by the Popular Resistance, stressing that the city is no longer fit for habitation or return under militia control.

Addressing Brown’s remarks about the absence of wounded people—when she said, “We did not see injured people in the city, and this is worrying”—the statement asserted that wounded civilians who were unable to flee were “executed in cold blood” by the RSF militia. It added that some were “burned alive,” while others were buried in mass graves at documented locations.

“The absence of the wounded is not a mystery,” the statement said, “but the direct result of systematic extermination crimes.”

The Popular Resistance renewed its call on the international community to designate the Rapid Support Forces as a terrorist organization, to open an urgent international investigation into crimes committed in El-Fashir, and to hold those responsible to account.