BBC is witness to the battle for kartoum

The BBC has heard evidence of atrocities committed by retiring to the fighters in a burning battle for the control of the capital of Sudan, Khartum.

The city has been retained by the Paramilitary Fast Support forces (RSF) since the beginning of the Brutal Civil War of the country almost two years ago, but the army has resumed much and believes that it is on its way to taking the rest.

Recovering the capital would be a tremendous victory for the military and a turning point in the war, although the conflict would not end by itself.

In recent weeks, the troops have mainly surrounded Jardum, appearing from the south after crossing the center of Sudan, and clearing the city’s districts in the north and east, pressing the remaining RSF combatants in the center.

The vast areas of the recovered territory are completely destroyed.

We conducted a block beyond the block of damaged and looted buildings, some of them blackened by fire, many of the low bullet holes

The pavements in front of them were full of shattered vehicles, pieces of discarded furniture, the dirty remains of looted products and other rubble.

But even in places that seem intact, terror is fresh.

In Haj Yusuf, a Jostoum district east of the Nile River, residents described chaos and violence as RSF fighters who fled civilians.

“It was a shock, they suddenly came,” says Intisar Adam Suleiman.

Two of his children, Muzamil, 18 years old and Mudather, 21, were sitting by the house with a friend. RSF soldiers ordered them inside, then fired them in the back when they entered the door, says Suleiman.

Muzamil escaped with a gunshot wound in his leg, but “our friend died instantly,” he told me.

“Then the men wanted to enter the house, and my mother tried to keep the door closed, pushing and pushing. They saw a phone on the floor, grabbed him and left. I went and called my friend’s father so that I could come and do first aid, but we couldn’t rescue him.”

Mudather died the next morning because the Blood Bank of the hospital had been decimated by a long power cut and could not obtain the transfusion he needed.

Mrs. Suleiman says she knew RSF’s soldiers and had committed themselves to them before to try to unwishly violence.

One of them had said: “We came for death, we are people of death.”

She says she said: “If you came to death, this is not the place for death.”

However, too much death is what Mrs. Suleiman has seen in this war.

Many people have died, he says: “I have become accustomed to these traumas.”

A few blocks away, Asthma Mubarak Abdel Karim tells me that she and a group of women were trapped in the fight when the Sudanese forces closed.

She says that they faced themselves when they retired to the Soldados of RSF who accused them of putting on the side of the army because they had been in a market in territory controlled by the army.

“They shot up around us, around our feet, terrorizing us,” he says, explaining how they took a woman to an empty house and raped her.

She says that the RSF fighter held the woman to gunpoint and said: “Come with us.”

He was hitting her with his gun, says Mrs. Karim.

“And then we listened to shoot and ordering that: ‘Remove it! Do this! Do that!’ Then, the fight around us intensified and we couldn’t hear any more: the bullets fell into the area, so we hid inside the house. “

She cleans her tears when asked what is the best of the situation for her now.

“Security,” he says gently, “the best thing is security. They tortured us so terribly.”

A RSF spokesman denied the reports, saying that the group had controlled this area for two years “without important crimes” and that the “mass murders” had been reported in areas taken by the military.

The army and allied militias have been accused of carrying out generalized atrocities after recovering the territory, in particular the central state of Gezira.

The UN and the United States say that both parties have committed war crimes, but highlighted the RSF for criticism of mass violation and accusations of genocide.

It is not just the RSF standing soldiers who are moving.

The senior officials have abandoned their houses in the Karfuri suburb in the near rich of Karfuri.

The RSF elite had embedded in the establishment of Jartoum before the Paramilitary Group and the Army between in April 2023 in a battle for control.

Karfuri is now disturbingly empty and completely looted.

Even the CSF’s attached commander, Abdel Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, and brother of the group leader, was not saved.

The large empty pool in the patio is scattered with garbage.

The sofas are volcanned in the spacious rooms, the broken windows, the gold jewels are naked, the door of a safe to the waist has been eliminated.

The army says that he believes that the majority of the senior leadership of RSF is now out of the city, and that those who still fight for the heart of Jardtum are the junior commanders and the soldiers of lower rank.

They told us that the army was using drones to release brochures urging the remaining fighters to go instead of fighting in the street.

The samples that showed us are written in Arabic but also French, apparently aimed at foreign combatants of neighboring.

“Lie your gun, change in civil clothes and leave the area to save your life,” says one.

In Jartum North, closer to the Nile, the RSF was expelled several months ago, but the calm regularly adds by the sound of the bombing when the army shoots in the group’s positions through the river.

Many people here say they finally feel safe enough to sleep at night, but they are still receiving extensive damage.

Zeinab Osman Al-Haj showed me the remains of his house, telling me that the RSF fighters would come at night and break the door if he did not open it.

“They filled their backpacks, and even my food supply, my sugar and my flour and my oil, the soap, they took it,” before finally burning the house, she says.

“This was not a war,” he says, pointing out the ashes battery where once his brother -in -law’s library was, the carbonized beds in the ruins.

“This was chaos: there was robbery and robbery and robbery, that’s all.”

A few streets we find Hussein Abbas.

He is almost 70 years old, walks with a cane and drags a suitcase mistreated by an empty street towards a horizon of burned and destroyed buildings.

He tells us that he has been displaced three times since he left the capital seven days after the war began.

“At the time I went down here I almost cried,” he says, when tears begin to roll through their cheeks. “For two years, I have not seen this place two years. We suffer a lot, extreme suffering.”

Survivors such as Mr. Abbas return slowly to try to save their homes.

The army now has the advantage now in this terrible war, but there is still a lot of suffering for the people of Sudan.