Khartoum is looking for its missing, people did not lose hope

 

Despite the liberation of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) about 4,000 civilian and military prisoners from the detention centers and prisons of the “Rapid Support Forces (RSF)” militia in the capital, Khartoum, there are tens of thousands whose fate is still unknown, and their families live in psychological suffering due to the disappearance of their children in mysterious circumstances since the outbreak of the war that is about to complete its second year, especially after tens of deaths occurred in prisons.

 

 

According to human rights bodies, the number of missing persons within 23 months reached 50,000 people and there is no evidence to confirm their presence with a specific party, at a time when their families did not lose hope to reach them by searching in all available methods and means, as social media sites are filled with a number of ads and calls that carry pictures of these missing persons accompanied by the numbers of their families’ phones in light of the stopping of the police work since the fighting exploded.

 

 

Shocking Facts

 

 

Meanwhile, the Sudanese Group for Defense of Rights and Freedoms (SGDRF) said it has documented the loss of 50,000 people since the outbreak of the war in April 2023.

 

It pointed out that “The most of the missing citizens are from the states affected by the conflict, such as Khartoum, Sennar, the White Nile and the Darfur Region.”

 

 

The group expected the discovery of shocking and unexpected facts, after the stoppage of the war, about the violations committed against women and children, including rape crimes.

 

 

The group explained that “the interruption of communications networks and the difficulty of accessing the states that witness armed conflicts and controlled by the” Rapid Support Forces (RSF)” militia are the reasons preventing the monitoring of all cases of enforced disappearance, and it is more likely that the numbers are large in those areas.

 

 

Anxiety and Fear

 

 

 

Magda Mutasim, who lost her son Shakir after three months of the outbreak of the war, says, “My son was working in a shop in the old Omdurman city, he leaves the house in the morning and returns in the evening regularly to about more than 60 days.” She added, “One day he was late for his arrival, we tried to call him and we found his phone closed, and the anxiety began to take us with the passage of time until the night, so that the matter became unusual. So we went to the police centers and hospitals in our area, but we did not find him.”

 

She added, “My heart is torn with fear and anxiety for my son’s fate, particularly after his name did not appear on the lists of prisoners freed by the Sudanese army after it took control of the capital, Khartoum, and whose names were published on social media.”

 

 

Psychological Effects

 

 

 

Salim Al-Tahir lives in Al-Jeraif, west, said that his family lost contact with his 26 -year -old brother more than a year ago, when he went to conduct medical examinations because of being suffering from diabetes, and he has not yet returned. His parents became in a deplorable state of psychological suffering.

 

 

“We had a great hope to find him, but his disappearance in the lists of the prisoners freed from detention centers and prisons of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, represented a great shock to us, and we reached a conviction that he was killed.”

 

 

Al-Tahir explained that “the Sudanese families suffer from very difficult psychological effects due to the loss of their members and the preoccupation with their unknown fate, if they are alive or dead and their inability to communicate with them.”

 

 

Violations and Tragedies

 

 

In the context, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Darfur Lawyer, Al -Sadiq Ali Hassan, said that “the list of prisoners released in the state of Khartoum and the Locality of Jabal Awlia revealed some answers about the fate of hundreds of missing persons, as well as the hidden tragedies and the conditions of the loss itself.”

 

He added, “The Rapid Support Forces militia bears responsibility, given that the violations committed against detainees and forcibly disappeared persons were committed by actions attributed to the RSF militia, and in areas under their control in the capital, Khartoum, Al-Gezira State, and the city of El-Geneina, in addition to the occurrence of several deaths inside prisons.”