Two friends, one war and the horror era in RSF in Khartoum Sudan war news star-news.press/wp

In the Arab Champat, a coherent neighborhood in Khrrum North, who was known for its vibrant societal gatherings and vibrant music festivals, two friends in childhood suffered through imprisonment and injustice by one of the warring aspects of Sudan.

Khaled Al -Sadiq, a 43 -year -old family doctor, and one of his best friends, was a 40 -year -old musician who once lit the stage of the nearby numbness of Bashir, before the war.

But when the civil war broke out in April 2023 and the fighting took place through their city, both men, born and raised near this beloved theater, were passed in a campaign of arbitrary arrests conducted by the RSF.

Friends were detained separately and tortured in various ways, but their experiences reflected each other – until they appeared, they were physically changed, emotionally broken and linked to staying forever.

Prison and ransom

The ordeal of Al -Sadiq began in August 2023 when the RSF Shambat forces raided and arrested him arbitrarily and countless other men.

He was crowded in the bathroom in a house that RSF was looted with seven other people and kept there for several days.

“We just left to eat, then forced us to return,” he explained.

Within his first interrogation days, the cataire was tortured by the bitterness and repeated by RSF to pressure him for a ransom.

They crushed his fingers, one at one time, using pliers. At some point, to hide it, they shot the ground near it, and sent shrapnel flying to his stomach and caused severe bleeding.

Three days later, men lined up by their kidnappers.

“They tried to negotiate with us, as they demanded 3 million Sudanese pounds (about $ 1,000) per person,” Al -Sadiq remembers.

Three men were released after delivering everything they had, including the cart and all their money. Sadir and other prisoners were transferred to a smaller dungeon-a more tight, tucked toilet below the drawer.

“There was no ventilation. There were insects everywhere,” he said. They had to take turns sleep – he could lie about two while two stood up.

A few kilometers away, Sadiq Al -Sadiq, the musician, who also asked not to be identified, was also arrested and arrested in the Military Military Camp in Khartoum in the north, which RSF seized in the first months of the war with the Sudan army.

This will not be the only time that the musician has been taken because RSF has told his family that he was very close to former President Omar Al -Bashir.

“They said I am” the remains of the regime “because of this relationship with him, although I was not part of the regime. I was against him,” adding that he protested against the Bashaer.

After months of the war, Shambat’s house was raided by his family by RSF and his younger brother was shot in his leg. To keep everyone’s safety, the musician quickly evacuated his family to Umm Al -Shatiya in the state of Jizira, and then returned home to collect their property. It was when he was arrested.

During his time in the military camp, he told Al -Jazeera that RSF fighters would link him and other prisoners and put them on the ground in the courtyard. Then they hit them with “South Al-Anag”, a bastard of the traditional pectative skin of the hippopotamus.

He added that the skin lasted for a long time, and it was not an isolated accident. This happened several times.

In the interrogation, RSF employees focused on his alleged affiliation with the Bashair, describing it as sugars such as “Koz”, which means Islamic political remains of the Bashaer regime, and subjected to verbal and physical assault.

He was detained for about a month, then he was released to return to a looted house.

It will be held at least five times.

“Most of the beliefs were based on people reporting each other, sometimes for personal benefit, and sometimes under torture.”

“Even RSF leaders are proud of a Bashir or supporter (Sudanese Armed Forces) supporters for each region.”

Forced work

While he was holding RSF, the musician told Al -Jazeera, he and others were forced to perform the manual work that the fighters did not want to do.

“They used to take us out in the morning to dig the graves,” he said. “I have dug more than 30 hat myself.”

The graves were around the detention camp and it appears that the prisoners who died due to torture, illness or hunger.

Although he could not estimate the number of people buried in these pits, the site that was forced to dig, saying that he had already had many pits that were used before.

Meanwhile, Al -Saadi was blindfolded, tied, gathered in a truck and was transferred to the RSF detention facility in the “Al -Radada” neighborhood.

The boat had five areas: a mosque that was restarted in a prison, a section for women, an area that holds the army soldiers in the battle, and another for those who surrendered and an underground room called “Guantanamo” – the site of systematic torture.

Honesty tried to help the people who imprison them, treat them with everything they could agree and attract RSF to seriously transfer sick prisoners to the hospital.

But RSF usually ignored the calls, and the cataract still remembers one patient, Saber, whom the fighters have been residing even when his health quickly faded.

“I kept asking him to transfer him to the hospital,” Al -Sadd said. “He died”.

Some prisoners received treatment, RSF maintained a group of doctors imprisoned in a separate room furnished with family and medical equipment.

There, they were told to treat the injured RSF fighters or prisoners who wanted to survive, either to continue to torture them to get information or because they believe they could get a great ransom for them.

Al -Sadiq chose not to go with other doctors and decided to cooperate less with RSF, while maintaining himself and staying with other prisoners.

The conditions were inhuman in the cell where he chose to stay.

Al-Sadiq said: “The total water that we received daily-for drinking, ablution, everything-was six small cups,” adding that the food was rare and “insects, mice and lice with us. I lost 35 kg (77 pounds).”

However, their kidnappers gave him some medical supplies, when they needed him to treat someone, and they were the lifestyle for everyone around him.

The prisoners were so desperate that he sometimes shared the fourth glucose drops that he got from RSF so that the detainees could drink some moisture.

Other other sources of food are the small “sugar payments” of the milk, or the dates that RSF will offer to prisoners who were forced to do handicrafts such as loading or emptying trucks.

Al -Sadiq did not talk about forcing him to dig the graves for his prisoners, or heard about other prisoners who do so.

For the music, Griffs became a fixed fact, even during the periods that he was able to return to the house to Champat.

He helped bury about 20 neighbors who died either because of the exchange of fire or hunger and had to bury him anywhere except in the graves.

RSF prevented access to graves without explaining the reason for the presence of people who wanted to put their loved ones to rest.

In fact, RSF banned all the burial, then retreated and allowed some burial as long as it was not in the graves.

So the musician and others dig the graves for people in the Raba field in the Shambat stadium and near the numb theater of Bashir.

He said that many people who were afraid of leaving their homes at all have finished burying their loved ones in their arenas or in any close conspiracies they could reach.

Friends engines continued in the winter when Al -Sadiq found himself chest and RSF stopped arresting the music.

No man knows the reason.

I told both honesty and musician Al -Jazeera that they remain inhabited by what they were carrying.

They said that the torment did not end with their release; Follow them, and include himself in their thoughts, and the shadow they fear will darken the rest of their lives.

On March 26, SAF announced that it had regained Khartoum. Now, the two men have returned to their neighborhood, where they feel more safe.

After their arrest and torture by RSF, they believe that SAF is unlikely to be seen as collaborators – they offer them, at least, a fragile feeling of safety.