Displaced people who fled El Fasher after the Sudanese city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), arrive in the town of Tawila earlier this week. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images
Fighters rounded up about 200 men near the Sudanese city of El Fasher at the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them.
One of the captors recognised him from his school days and let him flee, the man, Alkheir Ismail, said in a video interview conducted by a local journalist known to Reuters in the nearby town of Tawila in the country’s western Darfur region.
“He told them, ‘Don’t kill him,’” Ismail said. “Even after they killed everyone else – my friends and everyone else.”
He said he had been bringing food to relatives still in the city when it was captured by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday –
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