Satellite images reveal mass graves and blood-stained earth in El-Fasher as Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces unleash genocidal terror—while the world looks away.
The world’s conscience lies dormant as Sudan bleeds in silence.
From the skies above El-Fasher, the once-bustling city in North Darfur, the horror is visible even to satellites — vast reddish stains of blood, and bodies scattered like shadows, testifying to a genocide unfolding before the eyes of humanity.
According to the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), satellite images taken on October 27 by Airbus Defence and Space expose evidence of mass killings after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city — the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the region.
In Daraja Oula, civilians who fled for safety were trapped and slaughtered. HRL analysts found tactical RSF formations blocking exits and clusters of human-sized objects lying in blood-soaked earth. The atrocities occurred mere meters from Al Safiya mosque, already the site of a September RSF drone strike that killed 78 worshippers.
“What we’re seeing is a massacre on a scale so vast it can be detected from space,” said a Yale HRL researcher.
🔥 The War That Never Ended
Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023, pitting General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s SAF against RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo—Hemedti, a warlord once known for leading the Janjaweed militias responsible for the 2003 Darfur genocide.
The fall of El-Fasher marks a brutal escalation. Satellite data shows RSF forces capturing the SAF’s Sixth Division HQ and the 157th Artillery Brigade, deploying tanks and armored convoys in coordinated assaults.
Within hours, thousands were executed, and 5,000 more fled into RSF-held zones — a deadly gamble that for many ended in summary execution.
The United Nations has accused both sides of war crimes, but investigators say RSF atrocities are ethnically driven, targeting non-Arab minorities — particularly the Fur, Zaghawa, Berti, and Massalit peoples.
💀 The Janjaweed Returns — Now with Drones
The RSF, born from the Janjaweed’s ashes, has swapped horses for drones, but the brutality remains the same. Known once as the “devils on horseback”, they now wield automatic rifles and Iranian-made UAVs while chanting the same genocidal slogans.
Reports describe rape used as a weapon, with fighters bragging about “making Arab babies” after assaulting non-Arab women.
The United States has officially classified RSF actions as genocide, echoing the horrors of 2003. The Yale HRL report warns of a “systematic and intentional campaign of ethnic cleansing”, adding that these crimes may constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under international law.
💰 Gold-Fueled Genocide
Behind the RSF’s terror lies Sudan’s gold wealth.
Darfur’s gold mines—among Africa’s largest—are under RSF control, smuggled to the UAE, bringing in millions to purchase weapons, drones, and vehicles.
While Abu Dhabi denies arming the RSF, multiple intelligence sources point to indirect funding through gold exports. The RSF’s external backers include Libya’s warlord Khalifa Haftar, while the SAF receives aid from Egypt, Turkey, and Iran, further fracturing the region into proxy warfare.
🩸 The World Watches, Unmoved
The statistics are staggering:
- 150,000+ killed
- 12 million displaced
- 25 million on the brink of famine — numbers that surpass even Gaza’s humanitarian crisis, according to the UN.
Satellite imagery shows 26,000 civilians fleeing El-Fasher, their paths marked by dust trails through RSF-controlled zones toward Zamzam and Tawilah camps—hellish spaces filled with hunger, fear, and disease.
Yet, despite the mounting evidence, the world remains paralyzed. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the situation “unbearable,” while Saudi analyst Salman Al-Ansari described it bluntly:
“This is one of the worst cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing in modern history.”
Sudan is disintegrating — partition looms, and the blood that stains its soil can now be seen from orbit — yet, for most of humanity, it remains invisible.
