The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Thursday condemned what it described as a “heinous crime” after drones allegedly operated by General al-Burhan’s Army (SAF) struck the Sheikh Al-Bura’e Qur’anic school (khalawi) in the Al-Zuraiba area of North Kordofan.
In a statement issued by the Office of the Official Spokesperson, the RSF said the attack targeted a “purely civilian religious institution with absolutely no military objectives,” resulting in “dozens of deaths and injuries among Qur’anic students and scholars.” The group called the incident a “horrific massacre” and a “flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian conventions.”
RSF medical teams, alongside local authorities, were said to be treating the wounded and assessing human and material losses. The RSF asserted that the “systematic targeting of civilians and places of education and worship constitutes a fully fledged war crime” and urged “international legal prosecution” of those responsible.
The statement also characterized the strike as “another crime added to the dark record of the Islamic Movement’s Army,” the RSF’s term for the SAF and its allied Islamists groups.
