Coordinations of Khartoum’s Resistance Committees appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for urgent and immediate intervention to supervise evacuation of Tuti Island’s residents.
Khartoum: Altaghyeer
Activists have launched urgent humanitarian appeal to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for immediate evacuation of Tuti Island’s residents to save them from the wrath of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Tuti Island, situated in the confluence of the White Nile and Blue Nile in Khartoum State, has been besieged by the RSF since first days of its war with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in April 2023 and has been caught amid fighting and shelling exchanged between the two belligerents.
Coordinations of Khartoum’s Resistance Committees said in a statement on Monday “Tuti Island’s residents suffer from RSF siege and various sorts of violations on daily basis. The RSF holds them as hostages for servitude
and as human shields.”
The “militia” prevents the residents from leaving the island to safe places unless they pay high unaffordable sums of money, the Coordination charged.
“Therefore, we, in the Coordinations of Khartoum’s Resistance Committees, appeal to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for urgent and immediate intervention to supervise evacuation of Tuti Island’s residents to protect them from the (RSF) violations.
