Dagalo accuses Sudan's army of targeting civilians

KHARTOUM - Military battles on their third day between the commander of the Sudanese army, Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan, and the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, entered a new phase of developments that could cause chaos in the country.

In a tweet on Monday, Hamidti appealed to the need for the international community to act now and intervene against the “crimes” of the President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, describing him as “an extremist Islamist who is bombing civilians from the air.”

He added in the tweet: "His army is waging a brutal campaign against the innocent, bombing them with MiG planes," a sign that the aircraft war in which the army outperforms the Rapid Support Forces entered the battles, trying to resolve it early through this ladder before the international community begins to intervene directly, or the mediation delegations from the African Union.

“We are fighting against Islamic radicals who want to keep Sudan isolated in the dark and out of democracy,” Hemeti said, vowing to “continue to pursue the proof and bring it to justice.”

Activists inside some neighbourhoods in the Triangular Capital, Khartoum, Omdurman and Khartoum Bahri, monitored the presence of snipers on the roofs of high buildings.

The committees of some neighbourhoods were able to arrest a number of snipers who made dramatic confessions, through which they revealed their affiliation with the dissolved military operations authority (of the army).

One sniper said that the plan aims to provoke public opinion and create a kind of chaos among neighbourhoods by targeting civilians, and then using them as human shields to protect army soldiers from chasing the Rapid Support Forces, which control the entrances and exits of the three cities, and are stationed in the strategic locations of the capital Khartoum.

This development indicates that the Sudanese army seems weak in options after it failed to win the support of public opinion, political parties, civil society and regional and international forces, and sniping operations among civilians were expected to provoke citizens against the Rapid Support Forces, but the capture of a number of them revealed this scenario.