Rights group accuses RSF of killing eight civilians in Khartoum
March 14, 2025 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese rights group on Friday accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing eight civilians, including two women, in neighbourhoods east of Khartoum, the capital.
The RSF still controls central Khartoum and some areas in the eastern and southern parts of the capital.
The Emergency Lawyers group said in a statement that RSF forces carried out extensive raids on civilian homes in the Burri al-Lamab and al-Jiref West neighbourhoods during the past week.
The advocacy group also said the RSF imposed a siege on the Burri and Imtidad Nasir neighbourhoods, preventing civilians from leaving amid severe shortages of food and medicine and a communications blackout. This, the group added, led to the deaths of several children due to starvation and lack of healthcare.
According to the Burri al-Lamab Resistance Committees, RSF forces killed four residents of the neighbourhood, located east of the army’s General Command and near central Khartoum, on Friday.
Local sources from Burri told Sudan Tribune that the dead included two members of the al-Sharif al-Hindi family, one of the most prominent families in the neighbourhood.
The RSF was also implicated in the killing of two people days earlier in the Burri neighbourhood, which is located near the ongoing military operations between the army and the RSF, the sources added.
The killings included a man and a woman who were activists in the field of volunteer and humanitarian work in al-Jiref West neighbourhood, east of Khartoum, the Emergency Lawyers said.
The Emergency Lawyers group condemned the killings and called for those responsible to be held accountable. It also called for safe humanitarian corridors to be opened to deliver food and medicine to besieged civilians, the statement said.
Activists also reported serious violations, including killings, rape, and torture, committed by the RSF and what they described as mercenaries from South Sudan in the al-Daim neighbourhoods south of central Khartoum.
The army is tightening its grip on RSF forces in Khartoum, having recently regained control of Khartoum Bahri and Sharq al-Nil localities, the army says.