Khartoum digging graves ‘Sleeping too much’

Sudanese troops in central Khartoum have evacuated semi-military rivals (RSF).

The army appears to be ready to take control of the capital after two years after being sacked from the city.

Khartoum is the place where the country’s brutal civil war has begun and some of its biggest wars have been fought.

Regaining that will be a great victory for the Sudanese armed forces and a major moment in conflict.

But the Sudanese people continue to carry the weight of the war, which has brought mass deaths, destruction and human rights violations on civilians and has brought part of the country to hunger.

In recent months, soldiers had taken over the northern and eastern districts of the capital, and the pockets of central Khartoum.

The latest attack began a week ago.

The BBC has rarely received soldiers who are preparing for the operation. In the middle of the night, we took a meeting point in Khartoum.

The soldiers were in the high spirit, singing and screaming when they created their own pressure on the war.

The army had advanced until morning. Until the next evening, it had broken a major center-based area held by RSF, allowing troops to merge with military headquarters in the north.

On Thursday, the US military destroyed an RSF convoy that tried to withdraw from the presidential palace to the south.

The videos that appear to have been released by the soldiers have shown that drones have targeted their vehicles, and a huge fire, which may be caused by explosives that have been transported by RSF fighters.

The Republican Palace Society, located in strategy, is the president’s official residence and is of historical and symbolic importance in Sudan.

Undoubtedly, someone who shouts at the soldiers is Abidin Durma, known as the Omderman Cemetery, a city of Khartooma’s sister on the Nile River, which is part of the capital area.

It is clearly a strong patriot, constantly indicating that he calls the “war of dignity”

But it experiences a lot of costs for civilians every day.

Mr. Durma’s ancestors were linked to the Mahdi, a nineteenth-century leader who created the foundations of the Sudanese state and an influential religious movement.

They established the cemetery of Ahmad Sharfi, one of our oldest and greatest Omdermans.

Now, the cemetery, Mr. Durma, has been inclined to live for decades for a living image of death.

On three sides, it has widely expanded by about 10 acres (four hectares), with a row after a row of brown land, some with symptoms, some not.

The smell of death remains in their upper air.

Mr. Durma tells me that these young volunteers “have no less bodies than 25, 30 or 50 bodies.

This is partly because other cemeteries were unprotected during the active war in Omderman. The city is crowded with refugees and the health system has been dominated by conflict.

But artillery shooting has a large number of lives.

Mr. Durma showed me a mass grave for the victims of the strike in a school.

The entire new graves include the bodies of people killed in shelling a major market in January: at least 120 people have been killed.

We tell us that RSF is responsible, shooting at the US-controlled Omderman areas. But both sides are convicted of war crimes – the military is accused of mass murder elsewhere.

The bodies of the dead come from the hospital directly, who calls the grave to see if he should prepare for burial. The process is efficient, and fast.

“We will bury them immediately, because it is not a (trustful) refrigerator,” said Mr. Durma.

“The cemetery is safe. The graves are ready. Tables are ready. People who bury are present in the cemetery.

“When it’s not for sleep, it’s burying until the last body, then I sleep for half an hour or 15 minutes until I get another relationship.

“People die from bullets, from shelling. People are killed while sitting at home. There are many deaths.

His phone rings again. Another body is ready for burial.

The prayers for the dead have become a regular ceremony in Al-Mabroca, a neighborhood in the al-Tara district of western Omderman, which is on fire line between the army and RSF.

A group of friends gather around Abazar Abdul-Hab in the mosque to offer their condolences, raise their hands when they read the verses from the Qur’an.

The previous day we met Abdul Habib Hospital, where he carried his brother and nephew. When they took their son to school, they were caught fire.

In the family’s house, a little girl, Omnya, woke up and wake up in pain.

He was in his mother’s arms when the peel hit him, and he was only saved with a foot injury. His survival is seen as a miracle.

He was orphaned with three brothers.

“We are telling them what happened, about the shelling and the fighting,” Omnya said.

“They are the next generation, we will not allow this to affect them in the future. We will try to create their parents’ love for them, although it is difficult. But this is a destiny.

I contacted women in society who were crowded in a nearby room for the mourning of the dead, as they did several times in this war.

On the same day, three other people were killed in the shelling, including two young sons.

Nothing is possible like a normal life, they told me.

“We are hiding under the beds when the shelling starts,” Ilham Abdulrahman said.

“The man hit our house and killed his neighbor in the steps of our door.

“If there is an early morning there is shelling, we will go to the market to buy food,” he said.

“If it doesn’t happen, we have to sit down and wait until the shelling comes. After stopping, people go and gather what they need to live.

“Children are always in a terrorist situation,” he said.

“We lose our children every day. Students can not live, there is no education. There is always a state of fear, we are always in a state of sorrow.

If the US military takes control of the capital, at least the shelling will stop here.

But the war will continue elsewhere in the country and its wounds will be shed for the coming years.