00:00This man is being humiliated in his own village, 70 kilometers southeast of Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
00:30The village was attacked by the dreaded RSF militia.
00:42It was a bloodbath. At least 124 of the village's residents were killed, 200 wounded, 150 taken prisoner.
01:00RSF stands for Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that grew out of the Janjaweed militias in Darfur and has been fighting the government since 2023 in a devastating civil war.
01:18The RSF has controlled much of Sudan's Jazeera state since an offensive in December 2023.
01:26But the group unleashed a new wave of violence this October after one of their key commanders in the state, Abu Akhla Keikal, defected to join the government forces.
01:36The RSF, as they often do, filmed their actions and posted them on social media.
01:49The videos allow us to reconstruct what happened in al-Zariha.
01:56They document abuses that happened there and in dozens of other villages and towns in Jazeera state since October.
02:02The video of the man with the beard went viral in Sudan.
02:08A few hours after he disappeared, he was seen in another video posted by the RSF.
02:15Questioned by the RSF commander holding him captive, he said, under obvious duress, that he was being treated well.
02:21The man has not been heard from since.
02:30The RSF published other images of prisoners they'd taken in one of the village's mosques.
02:41Residents who weren't killed or captured fled.
02:44We spoke to one of them who is now safely in the north of the country.
02:48They were downstairs at thearaql.
02:52But every person who is meeting, the possibilites of the temple.
02:55They were two had friends with him, two of them were two men.
02:59They were outside weapons.
03:01And they did with them there too.
03:02And they had the video made themselves inside the street.
03:05After the fall, they would be killed by the fire and in the middle of the street.
03:06They were completely killed, and they were prepared for the police.
03:08They were in the 80s.
03:10They were in the 80s.
03:11They were in the 80s!
03:13They were in the 80s.
03:14They didn't do that, so they didn't get that would work from them.
03:16They were in the 80s.
03:17Al-Sariha was among many villages targeted.
03:25The United Nations says the RSF have attacked more than 30 villages and towns in Jazeera
03:30state since October 20th.
03:32In a village called Tamboul, there were reports of 300 people being killed.
03:38In Al-Khilaliya, 120 people were killed, according to the country's foreign ministry.
03:42Mahmoud Al-Mouber is General Secretary of a Human Rights NGO called the Jazeera Conference.
03:49He spoke to us from Cairo.
03:51All the way to the sea is now
03:54It turns out between the hours and the other
03:58It turns out to the heavy pressure
04:02It turns out to the sea and to the sea
04:04It turns out to the people of the country
04:06It turns out to the sea
04:08The situation in the sea is now
04:11More than 1,000 people and shaheed
04:13For the heavy pressure of the sea
04:17The number of the Shuhadans who have been in the village of Gazeera since the attack of the war was more than 4,000 people.
04:26There were more than 130 people who have been in the village of Gazeera.
04:32The RSF has been known for brutal treatment of civilians since it was formed in 2013.
04:38Rapes, looting, massacres, destruction of crops, the militias' tactics and abuses are well documented.
04:46The same is true with the attacks in Gazeera State.
04:49Researchers at Yale University have been looking at satellite images of a city in the center of the state.
04:54The cemetery at Rafa, we see a 52% increase in the period immediately after the reported killings.
05:02That number is astounding.
05:05It is, as a per capita measurement of increase in grave sites at a cemetery,
05:11it is one of the largest per capita increases we've ever seen.
05:15What we see in Azraq is extremely disturbing.
05:19The change in the agricultural fields from the before image to the after image is consistent with intentional burning of those fields.
05:29These are farming communities, primarily of smallholder farmers,
05:34that provide for Khartoum and Omdurmam and the other urban areas in Sudan much of the grain that they need to survive.
05:44So at a point where famine is now escalating throughout Sudan,
05:48the burn pattern we see here is consistent with an effort to destroy agricultural production.
05:55The satellite images also show that the hospital in the town of Tambul was looted, its solar panels removed, most likely by the RSF.
06:03The United Nations says that more than 130,000 people have fled Gazeera State in the three weeks since the attacks began.
06:10That's it for this week. As always, you can find more reports from our observers on our website, observers.france24.com.
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