The Sudanese army on Tuesday condemned the ethnically-targeted killings of civilians in Sudan’s El Gezira in recent days
Meanwhile, Rights groups have blamed the army and its allies for the ethnically-targeted attacks on civilians.
The attacks largely targeted people from western Sudan living in the central state because of accusations they collaborated with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which is fighting the army in a nearly two-year civil war.
Earlier this week, the Sudanese army and allied forces recaptured the state capital, Wad Madani, from the RSF, marking a possible turning point in the devastating conflict.
Emergency Lawyers, a human rights group, said that 13 people were killed in a farming settlement known as Kambo Tayba after the army advanced through the area.
It said the attacks followed hate speech linking residents to the RSF.
The group also cited other incidents of civilians being rounded up, tortured, or executed in recent days. The reports could not be verified by Reuters.
“The Armed Forces condemn the individual violations that have recently occurred in some areas of El Gezira following the cleansing of Wad Madani, and at the same time affirms … its keenness to hold accountable anyone involved in any violations that affect any person in the kanabi (settlements for farmers from western Sudan) and villages,” the army said on Tuesday.
El Gezira was the site of a year-long campaign of looting and violence against civilians by RSF fighters that drove hundreds of thousands of residents away.
