Sudan conflict: 'I saw bodies dumped in Darfur mass grave' - BBC News

An eyewitness tells the BBC he saw dozens of bodies being dumped from a truck by a paramilitary group.

14 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, Eyewitness says the RSF ordered dozens of bodies to be dumped in a pitBy Mercy Juma & Peter Ball in Adre, ChadBBC World ServiceMaalim is traumatised by what he saw in Sudan's western region of Darfur, before he fled across the border to Chad.

"If the people who I worked with know I have shown you these photos and videos, or even that I filmed them, I am a dead man," he tells me as he whips out his phone to show me harrowing pictures of scattered corpses in the city of El Geneina. We have changed his name for his own safety.

Before leaving the country, he was part of a group of people tasked with removing corpses from the streets and burying them in mass graves.

Sudan has been rocked by fierce battles between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the army since April, with some of the worst fighting in Darfur, where the RSF originates.

Warning: This report contains distressing images