Madrid. The NGO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) for its acronym in English, has announced this Saturday the discovery of “dozens” of mass graves containing more than a thousand corpses in the Sudanese state of Western Darfur, in the west of the country. , the scene of ethnic confrontations for decades and now fueled by the conflict between the Army and paramilitaries that broke out in April.
The announcement was made by the IRC’s regional emergency director, Marcelin Ridja, on his X account, formerly Twitter, in which he denounced an “atrocity that represents one of the bloodiest episodes of violence in the history of the region of Darfur”.
Two weeks after it began on April 15, the war between the Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Arab tribes and Masalit revived the confrontations that have characterized both groups since the 1980s. Darfur24 portal recalls in this sense that two of the last waves of confrontations, in 2020 and 2021, resulted in more than 450 deaths, almost 530 wounded and thousands of displaced persons.
Ridja has not provided details about the victims or the timing of their discovery. The organization to which he belongs deals especially with victims of ethnic and religious persecution, as well as populations affected by war and violence.
It should be remembered that, last July, 87 bodies attributed to the RSF were found in Western Darfur, according to the UN. Among the dead were women and children, all from the Masalit tribe.
