Port Sudan, Sudan: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 30 civilians in a two-day assault on a village in the country's western region of Kordofan, a war monitor said Friday.
In recent months, as the war between the RSF and the regular army roared into its third year, Kordofan has emerged as a key battlefront, with the paramilitaries seeking to consolidate their control in the west after losing the capital Khartoum.
The Emergency Lawyers, a group that has documented atrocities throughout the war, said RSF fighters attacked the village of Brima Rasheed on Wednesday and Thursday, killing three civilians in the first raid and 27 others the following day.
It added in a statement that the dead included women and children.
The Emergency Lawyers said RSF's "indiscriminate killing" of civilians constituted "a serious violation" of international law.
Casualty figures are nearly impossible to independently verify, with most health facilities shut down and large swathes of Sudan inaccessible to journalists.
The monitor said sporadic clashes were also reported between RSF fighters and armed civilians in Brima Rasheed village, near the RSF-held city of En Nahud in West Kordofan state -- a key transit point once used by the army to send reinforcements further west.
The Emergency Lawyers said that in recent days violence has spread across En Nahud, with reports of dozens of civilians killed and residential areas attacked.
The group added that the RSF also stormed major medical facilities in the city, expelling patients and using hospitals to treat wounded paramilitary fighters.
Those who resisted were beaten or detained, the Emergency Lawyers said.
There was no comment from the RSF, whose war against Sudan's army since April 2023 has killed tens of thousands people and displaced more than 14 million.
