Nairobi, May 7(Darfur24)Darfur 24 sources in the city of Nyala, the provincial capital of South Darfur, confirmed the continuation of the daily arrest of civilians, army soldiers, police officers as well general intelligence affiliates by the Rapid support forces RSF.
Reliable sources from Nyala said that the RSF absorbed former members of the military intelligence of the 16th Nyala Infantry Division, the security police, and the Investigation Service, due to their full knowledge of the elements supporting the Sudanese army in the city.
Dozens of Nyala residents wrote on their Facebook pages saying RSF members are arresting their relatives without any reasons or clear evidence.
One of the detainees who was released last Thursday, who preferred to withhold his name, confirmed to “Darfur 24” that he “stayed in detention inside the General Intelligence Service buildings in the east of the city for more than two weeks on charges of financing the popular resistance in the city of Nyala.”
He said that a force took him from his home west of the city at sunset and blindfolded him before interrogating him, searching his phone, and subjecting him to beatings and torture to confess to what was attributed to him.
He added: “I spent two weeks being interrogated daily, and I was released on Thursday evening.”
He said that the number of detainees at the headquarters exceeds 70 people, some of whom are military personnel and others are merchants and members of armed movements.
Meanwhile, former detainee Amrin Hamid Hajar told “Darfur 24” that a force stormed his house in the Al-Wahda neighborhood south of midnight last April and took him to the Popular Market Police Department before he was transferred to the intelligence headquarters of the 16th Infantry Division in the center of the city of Nyala and was interrogated and accused of specifying coordinates for military aircraft.
He explained that the force confiscated his Thuraya device, his personal phone, and a sum of money exceeding one million Sudanese pounds, and forced him to sign a pledge after the intervention of community leaders, who released him.
He indicated that he left for South Sudan for fear of his life, explaining that there are dozens of civilian and military detainees in the intelligence detention center.
In turn, the family of one of the detainees confirmed that their son continued to be detained for the fourth week without knowing the reasons or his fate. Abdul Salam Issa’s brother told “Darfur 24” that a force took his brother Abdullah from his home in the High Dam to an unknown destination.
He appealed to the Rapid Support Command to intervene, stop the arrest of civilians, and release them immediately. He called on human rights and humanitarian organizations to intervene and find out the fate of the detainees and demand their release or bring them to a fair and legal trial.
“Darfur 24” learned about the arrest of Nyala agricultural seed merchant Abdullah Ismail, known as “Pakistani,” and other merchants on the grounds of their support for the Sudanese army before the fall of the 16th Infantry Division in Nyala. They were distributed in special detention centers in the neighborhoods of Al-Matar, Al-Nahda, Al-Jir, and the Umm Al-Qura area, north of Nyala.
A relative of a Pakistani man, who preferred to withhold his name for security reasons, told Darfur 24 that his family does not know where he is being held.
At the end of last Ramadan, the Rapid Support Forces arrested Omar Dabke, Muhammad Sabouni, and others without mentioning the reasons for the arrest. They were released after pressure from their families.
According to “Darfur 24” sources, the campaign to arrest civilians began after air strikes launched by the army last April on Rapid Support headquarters in the “Kishlingo” area, 7 kilometers south of Nyala.